Chapter 99: Taking Advantage of the Vulnerable

Myles asked the knight captain of the brand templar how many hours left before the brand templars would return.

The knight captain revealed there were still three hours left—ample enough for Myles to disarm every sigil artifact.

In fact, it only took him less than an hour with the help of the knight captain of the Veil Stalkers, who were familiar with every location the sigil artifact was placed.

Afterwards, Myles and the three other knight captains had a brief discussion about how to conquer the knight department. Myles was relieved that the chances of successfully conquering the knight department before the arrival of the headmaster inflated.

Simply because he waited until when the commanders were carefree enough for him to make a move now.

Eventually, every brand templar began to return one by one, and before the Commanders and other brand templars arrived, the first ten followers who entered individually already became a slave to Myles.

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In total, Myles already had 112 followers. However, it would be added with twelve more later.

Once the Commander of the brand templar, including the other brand templars returned, he immediately glanced at Myles, who was now in his meditation session.

The knight captain of the brand templars, chain knights, and veil stalkers kept an eye on him, even though he was doing nothing.

The Commander of the brand templar was satisfied.

However, once he had fully entered inside, his eyebrows raised a bit after staring at them.

They were so into monitoring him that they didn’t even notice me and greet me, huh?

Just as he thought so, the knight captain of the brand templar finally noticed his presence and quickly turned around, greeting him.

The knight captain of the chain knights followed, while the knight captain of the veil stalkers greeted him without saying a word.

The Commander of the brand templar snorted, displeased.

In the end, he forgot about them and began to instruct every brand templars, who were now sitting on their bed in a lotus position.

He said, “We will now begin our meditation session. This time, begin visualizing that your opponent is a demon knight. For now, let’s choose a blood knight.

Use every means to finally land your Command Brand on him.”

Although the Command Brand was a powerful demonic innate martial art, there were conditions for it to successfully land against an opponent.

A physical contact must be established for five to ten seconds, depending on the difference in rank between the brand templar and the enemy.

The Commander of the Brand Templar began to teach every brand templar about the demonic innate martial arts of the Blood Knight, as well as some of their known demonic martial arts, the Crimson Phantom Steps.

He also introduced some strategies to be used against them.

Half an hour later, when he was finished, he asked every brand templar to close their eyes and began to visualize.

Visualization was very important for them. They must develop a mastery in visualization where they could feel pain throughout the process.

Of course, in exchange, they would be the most vulnerable in the meditative state.

After all, they put their whole consciousness into visualization, causing their senses to shrink immensely.

Of course, the Commander of the Brand Templar has developed his instinct to the point he could immediately react to danger when he was in the meditative state.

However, it was worth noting that for the last decade since he was the instructor of his knight race in the Royal Academy, his instinct has gone rusty.

He did not even notice that Myles had begun making his move, stealthily subduing the brand templar starting to the farthest from the Commander of the Brand Templar.

Myles used the law of veil to hide any noise from his movements and the law of shadows to stop the brand templar from circulating their demonic energy as well as any slight resistance that would alarm the other brand templars.

[You have gained another follower.

You have now 113 followers in total…]

The voice in his head continued to echo in his mind ceaselessly. It would take him ten minutes in every brand templar he subdued.

Hence, after an hour and half, only the brand templars on each side of the Commander were left.

Myles glanced at the knight captain and mentally instructed them.

“First and second edict acolytes, observe the Commander of the Brand Templars. If he reacted, immediately distract him.

Don’t make a move against him.”

The knight captain of the brand templars and chain knights bowed in front of him, not saying anything. They were afraid they would alarm the Commander of the Brand Templar.

After all, they were sensible enough to understand what their Emperor was currently doing.

Myles stared at the brand templar in front of him. He was obviously the second knight sergeant of the brand templars.

He pondered for a while. I can’t injure them. I guess I need a race that can easily heal others, but there’s no such thing in the knight race.

Should I settle for Common demons that focus on healing?

As much as Myles wanted a demon that focused on healing, they were not available in the knight race.

But then, he suddenly recalled that most of the knight race has absurd regenerative abilities.

He turned towards the brand templar and communicated with him through Shadow Telapathy.

“Does your race have regenerative abilities?”

“Every knight race has it. It consumes demonic energy in return.”

Myles nodded.

Without hesitation, he turned towards the brand templar and locked every joint and his demonic circulation.

The brand templar was greatly startled. He abruptly opened his eyes and was about to make a move when he realized he could not.

He could only stare at Myles in horror, who conjured a blade out of shadow and began attacking him.

Myles’ fine control in his attack only caused the brand templar to be jolted awake from the immense pain while being far from dying.

However, from the amount of pain he was exposed, too.

He felt like he was about to die.

And thus, causing him to lose his will to live and inevitably become the 121th followers of the future Emperor…

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