Strongest Superhuman System - Chapter 795

Chapter 795: Secret Organization
“I also want to know.”

Megumi’s face was as passive and expressionless as ever, but Genshi could tell from the way she was staring at him that she didn’t intend to leave this place unless she got everything that she wanted. Megumi had chosen to stand with Mark in this, and Genshi felt the pressure from both of them compelling him to give out the information that Mark wanted.

Genshi sighed tiredly as he closed his eyes. Genshi did not like speaking of what they were asking for because of how personal it was to him, but now that things had gotten this bad, Genshi knew that he owed it to them to give them what they were asking for. They were the ones on the front line fighting for the future of this world, so old fossils like him had to move out of the way eventually.

“I don’t know what happened in the recent tournament, and no, I am not lying to you. Instead, all I can tell you is what I believe is the most likely reason why things got so out of control and also the people I think are responsible for it.

“You see, over the past few decades, there have been many organizations present in Japan’s underworld. The yakuza were one of the most prominent of these organizations, and they lasted for decades because they didn’t allow their greed to ever get the better of them. They were smart about their choices. But before even the Yakuza were present in the underground, there was a group that ruled from the shadows.

“This group had roots in all of the dealings all over the world, and their goal was the complete unification of the world’s trade routes for illicit drugs and weapons. Japan, Russia, Germany, America. There were branches of this group everywhere in the world. You could say that they were the ones who ran the world in the shadows. There wasn’t a person alive back then who knew about them beyond vague whispers.”

As Mark listened, he watched Genshi’s intonation while keeping an eye on his system to make sure none of the things that Genshi was saying were false, and so far, Genshi hadn’t spoken a single word of a lie. Mark asked a question.

“If they were so secret, then how do you know about them?”

Genshi’s mouth curled into a small smile, and his answer made Mark’s fist clench.

“Well, I used to be one of them, of course. Don’t give an old man like me a look like that, boy. I’ve been threatening people since before you were born, glaring at me will do you no good. I said I used to be one of them, that was a long time ago, long before I became a part of the government and before I gained any form of blessing from the gods. You see, there was something that changed in the way the group was run all those years ago before I left. We were involved in nothing but money-focused business. We wanted to become the very vein that the blood of this world ran through, and we were well on our way to doing that. But, the leaders of the organization changed their outlook for some reason.

“Slowly, we began to involve ourselves in stranger businesses. We were carrying out experiments and kidnappings. There were cases of murder that were never solved because we were involved in it, and there were many situations where I wondered if we weren’t becoming a cult due to how much blood we had to spill for the sake of our dealings. That was one of the reasons why I left the group, but the reason that really made me leave—the reason that scared me away from them—was what I overheard by chance one day. You see, we all thought that the head of the group was kidnapping and killing people because he was more interested in human trafficking now, but that wasn’t what he was doing. He was chasing after something more vague and ritualistic. He wanted to become a god.”

Mark frowned.

“A god? That’s not possible?”

Genshi scoffed and pointed a single finger at Mark.

“Look yourself in the mirror and gauge your strength. Compare that strength to what the rest of humanity possess and see if you would have the heart to stand there and tell me that you’re any different from a god.”

Mark would’ve scoffed if the situation wasn’t so serious. Instead, Mark looked right into Genshi’s eyes and told him the truth.

“Trust me, Genshi. What I possess right now is nothing compared to the power possessed by a true god. You know nothing of what it means to be a god.”

The pressure in the room seemed to level out into something physical, like Mark was talking about a truth that shouldn’t even be mentioned in the mortal realm. Something far beyond the imagination of man.

Genshi stared into the eyes of the strongest man in the world, and he knew at that moment that Mark was not playing around. Genshi shook his head while chuckling.

“Well, I suppose there is much I will never see. But regardless of what the decider is on whether or not you are a god, this man believed that the power of a god lay somewhere within the blood of other humans. He became a fanatic and a ritualist, and over time, I watched the group that had been the vein of the world change into something different. I was already gone from the group long before then, but I heard from some of my sources who were still inside that the leader made an announcement to them, telling them that they were going to disappear from the underworld and become something entirely different.

“The leader claimed that he had been given a divine vision by the gods and that he had the key needed to create what would be the next species to populate the world. After that message, the group vanished just like the leader said, they became nothing but a whisper in the night, like the scent of the ocean passing an open window.

“I’ve been looking into things to find out anything about them for a long time now, but all I’ve found is that they are just as dangerous as they had been all these years ago, and they are still out there somewhere. Their reach is so vast that I believe they might’ve already compromised the president in their schemes. He was the one that pushed for the tournament to be held in Japan, and the only reason I can think of for that is because he wanted to use it to carry out the organization’s plans.”

Genshi finally finished his long narration, and Mark was surprised when he didn’t see a single notification from his [Styxwatcher’s Discernment] telling him that Genshi was lying. To think that something like this had been happening in the world all this time and no one was any wiser about it. Just how long have the gods been present in this world? If what Genshi was saying was true, then they have been here for more than fifty years already, talking to humans and trying to make humans fight against one another.