A/N: As promised, I will mass release 4 chapters.

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“Greetings to the Demon who will unify the demon world!!!”

Myles burst into a hoot of laughter a second after their voice resonated throughout the room.

He clearly did not expect their enthusiasm to greet him, even more so to how they addressed him.

He felt goosebumps all over his body, causing him to inevitably guffaw.

After laughing for a while, he stood up and placed his mantle on the bed.

He wiped the tears off of his eyelids as he spread his wings, stretching them after having been hidden for quite a while.

He flapped his wings and landed his feet atop the bed and swept his gaze to his subjects.

He said, “It took some time to recognize me, huh? It’s inevitable. I understand. I’m far from establishing even a single territory.

But know this, what’s inevitable is for me to unify the demon world.

That can be done. It will take sometime, but it will happen.

From my past actions, it should have been obvious now.”

Myles paused for a while and swept his gaze at them.

“Execute my orders efficiently. Be more enthusiastic in participating in my conquest.

I promise you this, once my empire has been established, your name will be included in the history of the demon world.

The future is in our hands!”

The blood of every knight present boiled. As much as they wanted to roar at the top of their lungs, they were sensible enough that it might alarm the other knights who have not been submitted to the will of the future demon emperor.

Even then, they engraved the words of the future demon emperor deep in their minds, word by word, and promised to scribe them for the future generations once the demon emperor had unified the demon world…

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Myles wore the mantle and asked the Commander of the Brand Templar, “Will the Commander of the Chain Knights come here?”

The Commander of the Brand Templar was now kneeling with one knee in front of Myles while bowing.

He replied, “Yes, Emperor. He had already promised to accompany me to monitor you until the headmaster returns.”

Myles frowned. “Why is that the case? Does he suspect me as deeply as you did?”

The Commander of the Brand Templar smiled bitterly. Like the knight captain of the brand templar, he was certainly guilty of accusing the future demon emperor to the point his life would be endangered if he failed to recognize his existence.

He said, “I deeply apologized for making your life harder from the past few days, Emperor. As for your questions, then yes. The Chain Knights followed most of our judgement without complaints. After all, they recognized that we think critically than them.”

Myles was quite surprised. So the brand templars are the brain and the chain knights are the body? Is that it, huh?

He asked, “When will he arrive?”

“I estimated he would arrive at any moment now. The reason I stated earlier was that the meditation would have to stop earlier than usual precisely because of him.”

Myles nodded.

He said, “Alright.”

If Myles managed to subdue the Brand Templar, he would gain his fourth Commander as his followers.

The number was still far from the supposed fifteen commanders, though.

And he only has less than four days left.

The strongest enemy are the knights from the Crown of Ash. They’ll be the last knights I will set my eyes on.

For now, I must increase my power.

He turned around and swept his gaze to the brand templars.

He asked, “Is there a single one of you willing to sacrifice himself for the future of the empire?”

The brand templars were stunned. The sudden announcement from the future emperor was out of their expectations at all.

As their minds turned blank, taking too much time to process what the future emperor had said, a knight behind them raised his voice.

“Me, Emperor!”

Every knight turned their head and glanced at the brand templars at the far back of the formation.

From his position, it appeared he was the weakest among the brand templars.

The Commander of the Brand Templar whispered to Myles.

“He’s the fifth knight cadet, the weakest among them.”

Myles nodded. He thought. No wonder he volunteered himself. The fact that his body moved before he could think meant he’s deeply willing to contribute to my future empire even at the cost of his life.

Myles said, “I need your powers, but you might cease to live. I’m asking again, are you willing?”

The fifth knight cadet was uncomfortable that he’d drawn many gazes. When he was asked by the future emperor, he was shaken.

He gazed at the Emperor, bowed deeply, and said, “I am more than willing to contribute for the future of the empire.”

Myles smiled and appeared beside him.

The moment his glass step was revealed to others, especially the Commander of the Brand Templar, they finally understood what the future emperor meant by acquiring powers in exchange for a life.

The Commander of the Brand Templar thought. So, that’s what happened from the Veil Stalker, huh? The future Emperor must have tried to use a charm or law of charm related demonic arts to the Veil Stalker and failed to make him submit.

Nevertheless, he played us so well. The future emperor is astute. The creation of the empire is absolute.

He watched as Myles faced the knight cadet and heard him say, “Say your will, they’ll remember it.”

The fifth knight cadet glanced at Myles and teared up.

His mouth quivered, finding the words to utter from his mouth.

In the end, he said, “For the future of the empire. The future of the demon world. The future of our race.”

Every brand templar, especially the Commander, was moved. They did not expect that the fifth knight cadet was still thinking about the future empire and their race, instead of himself.

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