Chapter 62: Sovereign of Black Web

The Guardian of Scarlet Bond said in an amused tone, “Well, even if he awakens a shadow affinity, you can’t claim him. That’s the Lady of Chains and Whisphered Vows’ knight, as far as we know.”

The Guardian of Obsidian Descent shrugged. “We aren’t even interested in him. If the headmaster did not mind him continuing pretending to be a Blood Knight, then I respect that. In the first place, I’m being kind to him simply because he showed so much potential. However, I didn’t expect him to be a disgusting hybrid.”

When he uttered his last sentence, his eyes showed deep contempt towards Myles. The latter, on the other hand, didn’t even bother. He was simply relieved the manual was tightly grasp in his hand.

The Guardian of Scarlet Bond was aware there was no point in continuing to stay, so she simply turned around and returned to the Grand Hall.

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The Guardian of Scarlet Bond led Myles to the Velarium Walk, the main corridor of the noble wing in the Grand Hall.

Along the way, she asked, “Do you want to read it now or return to the Knight Dormitory?”

Myles was exactly pondering about it at the moment. He thought. It would be better to read in the Grand Hall since the opening ceremony would commence soon. However, I would be publicly revealing myself reading a manual that says a demonic art of the incubus race. The seating alcoves here aren’t better, either. I would attract their attention easily.

After all, a Blood Knight sitting in a seat that only a noble should have while reading a manual that only a noble possessed would certainly gain the ire of other demon nobles.

Not only do the demon nobles have bizarre appearances, their personalities might be complex, too.

While he was in the middle of his thoughts, the Guardian of Scarlet Bond said, “Just answer my question.”

Myles replied, “I want to read it now, but I’m afraid other demon nobles might dislike it.”

The Guardian of Scarlet Bond nodded. She stopped in one of the empty seating alcoves and sat. There were other occupied seating alcoves, but, at the moment, only the Dream Sirens occupied them.

The Guardian of Scarlet crossed her leg and fanned herself.

She said, “Stand beside me and read the manual. You only have twenty minutes.”

She did not bother staring at Myles, seemingly keeping her gaze forward as she spoke.

Myles was stunned. He instantly reacted, moving beside her and kept standing while reading the manual.

He even failed to fully scrutinize the Dream Sirens at a far distance. They were distant and soft-spoken anyway, even to their kin, so they did not attract his attention.

Myles read the Black Marionette Rite manual in five minutes and completely comprehended them.

For the last minute, he actually entered the enlightenment state, where most of the texts he read began to connect themselves, pouring him intensive knowledge about how shadow thread should work.

Myles began to learn relevant sentence after sentence.

The target’s muscles moved according to the incubus’ will…

Resistance manifests as internal tearing or paralysis.

The incubus can force attacks, self-harm, or immobilization.

Control range extends through connected shadows.

Breaking free causes severe backlash, and it might rupture the incubus’ core.

The incubus does not dominate the mind, only the body, making the control brutally precise and hard to detect.

So, if the succubus controls the mind, the incubus controls the body.

As Myles left the enlightenment state, the voice in his head echoed once again.

[You have learned a Rare rank skill, Black Marionette Rite.]

At the same time, Myles itched to test the skill. The shadow on his surroundings communicated with him that there were multiple targets in his domain.

However, Myles restrained himself.

And realized something…

The shadow in my surroundings seems to be asking me to choose their target… individually. Why not all at once?

Myles then realized the Black Marionette Rite only targeted individuals. Although it would target multiple enemies, at best, it worked on individuals. Furthermore, the range that the Black Marionette Rite talked about was only line of sight shadows, not all connected shadows or even darkness—what he possessed because of the Shadow Manipulation.

For the next five minutes, Myles began to see the improvements needed for the Black Marionette Rite to provide him a version that would be compatible with the Shadow Manipulation.

And for the last ten minutes, Myles spent them by developing a version that was better than Black Marionette Rite.

It was actually a daring and bold decision from him. To create a skill higher than the rare rank simply means he was aiming to produce an epic rank skill.

In ten minutes!

As Myles began to develop the formulate. He nailed them with a sentence in his head, having less than half a minute left from the ten minutes granted by the Guardian of Scarlet Bond.

“With this new demonic art I developed, I can no longer control shadows through threads, I declare all shadows within my domain as extensions of my nervous system!”

Afterwards, the manual was finalized just in time the voice of the Guardian of Scarlet Bond woke him up, “Twenty minutes is up. The Crimson Matriculation is more important than your enlightenment.”

Myles nodded and said, “Thank you for giving me the chance, Guardian of Scarlet Bond.”

The Guardian of Scarlet Bond glanced at him and said, “Oh? Of course, you’ll be grateful. Not only did I give you the chance to read that book, I also protected you when you entered the enlightenment stage.

I can only hope you have awakened the shadow affinity. If not, learning the Shadow Threads would be completely useless.”

Myles nodded.

In fact, he failed to listen attentively to what the Guardian of Scarlet Bond said.

The voice in his head echoed, resonating a tone filled with joy.

[You have elevated the rare skill, Black Marionette Rite, to an epic rank skill!

Congratulations!

Please name the current improved epic rank skill.]

Myles instantly replied, “Name it Sovereign of the Black Web.”.

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