Chapter 92: The First Edict Acolyte Ploy

[You have gained a follower in the Greater Demon Rank 3.]

[You have a total of 79 followers.]

Myles was deeply elated. He thought. Since there are sixteen more left of Veil Stalker, if I enslave them tonight with the help of their Commander, I would reach ninety-five followers!

Myles asked the voice in his head, “If I ascended into barony, will my demon rank ascend, as well?”

The voice in his head quickly replied, [Yes, the possibility is very high. This is to support the new status awakening of your nobility rank.]

Myles nodded. He glanced at the Commander of the Veil Stalker and said, “What are you doing?”

The Commander of the Veil Stalker was stunned. He glanced at Myles in terror and hurriedly fixed his position and kneeled in front of him with one knee, bowing deeply.

He said, “I-I’m sorry for not recognizing you, Master. Please punish me!”

Myles raised his eyebrows. He did not expect him to react exaggeratedly.

However, he did not bother himself about how he acted and said, “Gather all the Veil Stalkers in the room. Make sure there will be no other Commander to notice your strange activity.

Since it’s late at night, it’s best you do it now. I will follow you later.”

The Commander of the Veil Stalker stood up and bowed deeply.

“Your will is my command, master!”

“Right.” Myles glanced at the Guardian of the Scarlet Bond and the Commander of the Veil Stalker. “Call me Emperor from now on.”

The Guardian of the Scarlet Bond and the Commander of the Veil Stalker bowed simultaneously

They said, “”Yes, Emperor.””

As soon as Myles was left alone, the Blood Knights returned to gather in a circle.

…

Half an hour later, Myles stood up.

He said, “I will be back.”

All the Blood Knights kneeled with one knee and bowed deeply.

Myles glanced at them and turned around, executing Glass Step every now and then until he arrived at the corner of the Veil Stalkers’ room.

He swept his gaze and like the other Blood Knights earlier, every Veil Stalker gathered in a circle.

The knight sergeant, who was still not converted to Myles, wondered why the Commander gathered them, seemingly an emergency.

However, they had one idea in mind—the death of their fellow Veil Stalker must have progressed.

The knight sergeants, on the other hand, who were already converted to Myles, knew about their Emperor’s plan.

The Commander said, “I’m certain that everyone must be eager to know about what had happened to your fellow knight, correct?”

Every Veil Stalker nodded without hesitation.

The Commander smiled at them and said, “The investigation has progressed.” He deliberately paused.

The first knight sergeant raised his hand, to which the Commander nodded at him to allow him to speak.

The first knight sergeant asked, “Since you are too focused on that specific Blood Knight, that means he’s really the suspect, correct? How did he bypass the sigil?”

The Commander smiled. “He did not kill our knight sergeant, he punished him. As for how he bypassed the sigil, why are you doubting the power of our future Emperor?”

The knight sergeant was dumbfounded. They clearly did not expect the words to come out of their Commander’s mouth.

Just as they were glancing at their fellow Veil Stalker to determine if they were not the only one who witnessed the Commander to act strange, they were shocked when they couldn’t move, not even their heads.

The Veil Stalkers, who converted to Myles, including the Commander, suddenly stood up. The Veil Stalkers, who noticed that some of their fellow kin were free from the sudden restriction, were filled with delight, but their expressions turned into horror.

It was inevitable. They saw their Commander as well as some of the knight sergeants, including their knight captain, to kneel with one knee and bow to one direction.

The direction was actually in front of them. In other words, the culprit, who disabled them, was standing behind them.

As much as they wanted to turn their heads, they were already filled with terror. The hope to break free from the shackles were lost.

The desire to live while accepting that death was about to befall them had already crept deep in their hearts.

…

[Congratulations, you have gained new 16 followers.

You are now five followers away from ascending your nobility status to barony.

Keep up the good work.]

Myles shrugged and thanked her silently. At the same time, he swept his gaze and was filled with satisfaction, seeing them kneeling with one knee, while bowing deeply in front of him.

He turned towards the Commander and asked, “What are the chances of other Commanders sensing the strangeness of your sudden emergency meeting?”

The Commander immediately replied, “It’s quite high, Emperor. However, unlike us, no other knights could infiltrate and gather intelligence.

This is why we exist, to begin with. Not only to provide information to our master, even to the head-master is a must.”

Myles fell into deep contemplation. So, even the Commander of the Veil Stalkers can’t stop the other Commanders from reporting, huh? At the very least, I’m able to blind their eyes and make it mine. This is a huge advantage for me.

He asked the Commander, “Which knight race is easy to convert? I have converted two from the Chain Knights.”

The Commander of the Veil Stalker instantly replied, “Since you have converted two chain knights to be your follower Emperor, then they would be easier to convert. However, I must ask the Emperor to exclude the Veil Stalkers on this mission of converting them.

They are quite hard to subdue with our current abilities. Furthermore, it would be even more difficult to convert them if they captured one of your followers, even if you defeat them badly.”

Myles nodded. He replied, “What you said makes a lot of sense. Don’t worry, I’ll do it alone.”

As much as Myles wanted to take a rest, he did not do so, eager to ascend into barony before the next day arrived.

…

Myles had long included the edict acolyte in his plan to subdue their fellow Chain Knights. It was simple, he mentally instructed them to look for ways to invite two or more Chain Knights to go outside, where it was difficult to be spotted.

Of course, Myles wouldn’t expect it would be possible. Commanders were strict—if it was curfew, unless for absolute legal reason only then they would allow their knight sergeant and cadet to go outside.

However, Myles was stunned that the Chain Knights, as soon as he returned to his bedroom and contemplated on how to subdue the Chain Knights in the middle of the night, reported to him that they successfully brought four Chain Knights outside.

Among them was a knight captain, who was ordered by the Commander of the Chain Knights to look after his kin.

Myles was deeply overjoyed. Without hesitation, he performed Glass Step repeatedly until he arrived at where the Chain Knights trained.

…

The Chain Knights’ arena has many training dummies. However, compared to others, the training dummies were imbued with sigils and runes.

There were runes of durability, strength, and speed. There were also sigils that were imbued with laws that could make the training dummies difficult to be chained.

That was how the Chain Knights increased their mastery of their Imperial Shackles.

Aside from training dummies in the arena, there was also a place beside the arena where they could train their precision as well as control.

There were steel walls placed in sequence, having different sizes of holes, where the Chain Knights would control their mass binding chains in terms of their size and precisely targeted countless holes.

The knight captain of the Chain Knights, as well as three knight sergeants, were glaring at the chain knights, who brought them here.

The chain knights, which was the first edict acolyte, was shivering in fear.

He stuttered, “I-I swear, I saw the silhouette of a strange knight I couldn’t identify with. He left an object here after we returned. Didn’t I ask for your permission to search for my missing bracelet artifact here? I was unable to arrive here because of the silhouette’s strange activity.

After he dropped the object, I really thought it would explode, so I waited until he left. However, it did not.

I suspected it was an object he used to the Veil Stalker, who died, so I reported to you.”

The knight captain of the Chain Knights wore a solemn expression. The other knight sergeant, who wanted to scold their fellow chain knights, butted in.

“Just say it, you just want to find something here or leave from the dorm since it’s curfew? Stop with the bullshit!”

“I-I really am not bullshitting. You must believe me…” The chain knight looked at their knight captain and whispered. “Captain…”

The knight captain felt a headache coming. He sighed. “Since there is lacking evidence, then I must tell what the Commander told me if you were lying.

You are now hereby punished for practice for a week. You will stay in the room, just face the wall and reflect on what you have done.”

The chain knight’s face turned into horror.

The knight captain simply stared at him and sighed. He did not expect an idiot to have come from their race.

Suddenly, he was distracted when he noticed the chain knight’s eyes moved, seemingly staring behind him.

Just as he was about to turn around, he froze when he noticed the Chain Knight’s face turned to delight.

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