The doors to the lounge suddenly opened as dozens upon dozens, possibly even hundreds of people, walked out of those doors, wearing their armor and holding their weapons in hand.
Silas was about to reach for his axes, but when he saw two kids walk out of the sa place as well, he lowered his arms and let out a small smile.
"A lot more people stayed than I expected," Silas comnted with a slight chuckle.
"A few left, but most of them were Grant's undying supporters." Seraphina explained with a big smile on her face.
"Oh... You tried to trick ." Silas narrowed his eyes at her.
"I did no such thing!" Seraphina harrumphed while puffing her chest out.
Silas hadn't increased the mana going to his eyes, so he couldn't see her life force or heart rate to see what she was thinking; however, even if he did, it wasn't like his mystic eyes gave him the ability to read minds. All he could see were her emotions, and a good liar would probably easily fool both of his tests.
Turning back to the crowd that had ford before him, Silas would say sothing, but they beat him to the punch.
Suddenly, they all fell onto one knee and stabbed their weapons into the ground.
"Your Highness... We are here to serve you and this faction. Our loyalty belongs to only you." They all shouted in unison, including Seraphina, Nymira, and even Alex.
'Hmm... I never thought I would lead an army of real people, not robots. I have to say; this does feel a little embarrassing.' Silas thought to himself as a slight blush crawled up his cheeks and flushed them red.
"U-Uhm... Cut the highness thing. Call Ga or Judgent... Whichever one you prefer." Silas waved them off with growing embarrassnt.
'I've quite literally stood in front of an entire army of people and scared them away with my speech! How am I blushing like a teenager from just this!' Silas shouted to himself before shaking his head to clear the thoughts.
"This won't be easy. Don't expect to be allowed to laze around all day. Every single one of you will work, and I an that. I will make this city a much better place than the one we live in.
I will make sure to punish everyone who does wrong, and the punishnts will not be as lenient as they have been for the past few years." Silas explained, yet not a single person moved from where they kneeled.
"We understand that." On the other hand, Seraphina suddenly stood up and spoke to Silas.
"Everyone here understands that. You made it quite clear when you said it the first ti after you won the duel." Seraphina chuckled.
Silas nodded in acknowledgnt before looking back at the crowd before him.
"Alright, now, I'm going to explain to you what your job is."
Many of them frowned for a mont. From their perspective, it felt like Silas was indirectly calling them dumb; however, it began to make sense when he continued.
Silas wasn't just telling them what they were, but explained to them the changes he would make to the faction, and with that ca the changes to their job descriptions.
Silas had been thinking about what to do when he finally beca a judge, and eventually, he realized that the laws from his planet would do as well as one might think on Gilea.
In many Western countries, The law on Earth was malleable. Murderers could get away with cris despite there being plenty of evidence against them. People would take their punishnt, go to prison and co out just to commit the sa cri again.
Earth's humanity was soft. Weak. Pathetic. The younger generation was weak until he ca into power.
He achieved true peace when he defeated anyone who would stand in his way. His robots enforced the law, and while he couldn't use robots on Gilea right now, he would take one of the many things that made his society a lawful one.
A society that enforces laws without rcy.
After explaining what they needed to do, they all nodded in unison. So had questions, and Silas easily answered them with as much honesty as possible.
So thought that the rules were too strict, and the punishnts were too harsh, yet Silas didn't pay them much heed. He knew what he was doing. He knew that this was what the city needed.
Darkless was quite literally one of the worst cities in the kingdom. People ran to it, and it was bound to be filled with criminals.
And the only way to keep criminals in check is to ensure they fear sothing.
"The new laws and punishnts will be announced tomorrow. All of you have the day off today, but from tomorrow, you will start patrolling the city and bringing many criminals you find for to judge. Is that understood?" Silas askedI think you should take a look at
"Yes, sir!"
After everything was over and done with, Silas went to check out his new office.
Nymira, Seraphina, and Alex all ca with him. Silas appointed Seraphina his right-hand woman, while also officially appointing Nymira and Alex as his apprentices.
And just like that, the day passed in what felt like the blink of an eye, and everyone went to do their jobs.
Throughout the next week, a few things happened.
After a very long and tedious political battle within the Greed faction, Jessica finally beca the 5th General of the Darkless organization. Silas had no idea how she did it, but sohow she got a landslide victory of 60% by simply promising the faction that she would restore their na.
Within that ti, Silas had begun training Alex and Nymira. While Nymira was quite talented with the sword, Alex leaned more toward the magic side of things.
However, sothing was off about the results Silas got from the elent exam.
"Hmm... That's weird." Silas muttered to himself as he looked at the result.
"Shut up, man! Just because you have a gazillion elents doesn't an one is bad!" Alex harrumphed in annoyance.
Silas had known that Alex had the fire elent, but he always felt like there was sothing more that he was missing.
However, after not getting anymore more from the crystal testing Alex's elent, Silas shrugged, making a ntal note to check up on that feeling in the near future.
For now, though, he had more important things to focus on...
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-Misty Forest-
"Have you found anything?" A man wearing silver armor and red robes asked with his arms crossed as he looked at the n before him, standing around the destroyed forest, searching for the slightest clue as to what had happened.
"Have you found anything?" A man wearing silver armor and red robes asked with his arms crossed as he looked at the n before him, standing around the destroyed forest, searching for the slightest clue as to what had happened.
"Sir... We've been searching for almost 2 months now and we haven't found a single thing. The worst part is that the mist walker doesn't even want to talk to us. It's like its... Scared." The unit captain explained to the man who had just shown up.
Unless the king or one of the king's cohort ca to personally talk to the mist walker, they doubted it would tell them anything.
Plus, they didn't want to agitate it since it undoubtedly had the power to kill every single one of them with a swipe of its hands, despite even the weakest of them being capable of taking on a dull-sapphire beast on their own.
"The king won't be pleased about this." The man sighed with frustration; however, the next words from the captain's mouth made a glimr of hope enter his heart.
"However, after analyzing the battle, we do have a theory..." The captain looked down with knitted brows.
"Spill with it, soldier! What is it!?" The man demanded.
"If the statents we've gathered are correct, what awakened here was so kind of Eldrich terror... After seeing the battlefield's scars, we first thought that we were dealing with a remarkably strong shadow swarm." The captain paused before looking around the remains of the forest.
"But... After looking at it again, we discovered that there are two possibilities to explain what happened here.
One possibility is that we're looking at the remains of a battle between a powerful pink python, an extrely strong sonic bat, a shadowswarm, and a mist walker...
Or..." A shudder went down the captain's spine as the next words barely left his mouth as a whisper.
"Or we're looking at what happens when you mix all those bloodlines together and let the creature that cos out of that mix wreak havoc upon the lands."
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