Another council member quickly got up and spoke to counter the person who had just finished speaking.
“It’s impossible for it to be just a beast wave. A beast wave would be more chaotic and not a well-planned army.
From what the knight just said, it seems to be an army, coordinated and attacking together. They aren’t moving carelessly or recklessly.”
When everyone considered the council member’s words, it made a lot of sense.
“Whatever they are, we will have to respond to them in full, obliterate that little army, and ensure that they come to fear us.
We will send a troop of Black Knights and our best mages from the mages’ association and army. I want a number of two thousand, and they will go and crush the enemy,” the king decided.
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[Abyssal Blades: A sword used by the dark dragon, a blade filled with the will of the dark dragon.
The blade is sealed with seven seals. Each unlock increases the power of the blade severalfold and gives new abilities to the blade.]
[You have the base sword: increases stats by double when using the blade to fight. Possesses the ability to enforce your will, creating a powerful sword field.]
[You must reap the lives of two hundred intelligent beings to unlock the first seal.]
[With every seal unlocked, the will of the dark dragon merges with your will, making the blade far more powerful.]
Silva read through the details, and he was happy with what he was seeing. This sword was something else.
Sure, he wasn’t happy that most of it was sealed, if not all, but at least even without unlocking any seal, the sword was already very powerful.
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Silva arrived at the academy and flew to the window of Matilda’s room. He knocked on it twice, and she opened it, allowing him to come in.
He took a seat and relaxed immediately after he was in, taking a look around for one last time.
“Matilda, have you evacuated your students? This is war, you know?” Silva spoke.
“I know. The teachers have informed them and asked them to start leaving, but do you really have to do this?” she asked.
“In this world, the strong make the rules, the strong decide what goes and what doesn’t. Your king thought he was strong and so he made the rule and harmed someone dear to me.
So now, I, who am stronger, am going to shatter his belief and destroy his understanding of strength. I don’t plan to hurt the humans here.
In fact, I’ll build a kingdom where beasts and humans can easily coexist. It will be the first of its kind,” Silva said as he reclined further into the chair.
“The holy kingdom, the empire, they will come for you. Even if it’s just a smaller kingdom you’ve taken over, they won’t allow a demon to rule for long,” Matilda said.
“Let them come. I do not fear them; I’ll crush all of them beneath my feet when the time comes. I plan on creating a country far more advanced than the empire and holy kingdom combined.
A first of its kind with otherworldly technology that would leave jaws dropping. By the time the empire or holy kingdom decides to make a move, I would have built defenses that even their strongest would not be able to break through,” Silva explained.
“You sound so certain, like you know for sure it’s happening,” Matilda said.
“Oh, I do. I very much do,” Silva said with a smile. “I can tell you for sure that I’ll succeed in what I’m about to do.
Will it be easy? Nope. It will be hard as hell, because I’ll be fighting many people who are considered the strongest and most powerful.
But the question is if I would lose to them, and that is a hard no. I’d never lose to any of them. If I fail to win the first try, I’d escape and return.
And when I return, I’d probably be a dozen times stronger, and I’d take care of the person that caused me trouble.
It’s really simple, actually. Call it pride, but I’m also a dragon and one filled with pride. At the end of it all, there’s no one I know of or have heard of that has my growth potential,” Silva said as he got up and walked to the window to look outside.
“My troops have made it into the city; now we will dominate.
I have an offer to extend to you, a chance at standing with me and living. I have looked into your details—you have nothing to lose.
No kids, no family, nothing whatsoever; all you have is yourself and your life. I’ve thought about ending you, but your potential is beyond what you know.
You possess a great ability to plot and plan; you only need a little polishing and training, and you might become the greatest tactical mind.
So this is an offer in that regard. I want you to take that role and learn from some of my best in order to become even more useful.
I’m extending this olive branch to you now, in good faith that you are an investment worth it. Will you take it and walk by me, or should I kill you and end it here?” Silva said, stretching out his hand to her.
She gazed at his hand for a moment before shaking it. “I have no choice. I either die here for the kingdom or follow you.
Sadly, this kingdom hasn’t done enough for me to lay my life down for them, so I’ll take the deal,” she responded.
“Great,” Silva said and walked back to sit down. He reclined on the chair and crossed his legs before he started speaking.
“By now, the information about the war must have already reached the king’s ears, and he must be thinking that the demon kings are behind this in some way or another.
His belief would be that they want to wipe out the smaller human kingdoms first before they take care of the big dogs.
And honestly, everyone would think that way. And so that brings us to his plan to stop me, because he has to have a plan to stop me.
And that plan would simply be to send elite fighters to come in great numbers to chase us from the city.
This is where you come in. You have to make them believe that the enemy is inside the academy and is using it as a base.
You are currently the most influential person in this city, so all you have to do is speak to the king through a magical crystal and inform him about the situation and what your plan is to defeat them.
While in reality, your only plan is to lure them into the academy, where my men will be waiting for them, hidden.
It will be a war inside the academy, one we will win with ease, because they believe that only about five hundred of my forces are here. But they don’t know one little detail.
And the detail is the fact that when we reach the academy, we will be using a teleportation circle to mass-teleport five hundred more men.
With that number, the king would need at least five thousand to stand a chance at a decent fight. But considering this kingdom’s military situation, they can only afford to send two thousand to three thousand.
That would normally be enough, but that won’t be the case here, as all of them will meet their doom,” Silva finished his elaboration.
“You put a lot of thought into everything, every detail. It’s scary to think about it. The king honestly does not stand a chance against you and your plots,” Matilda said.
“It’s not just me. I have a powerful team of high-level strategists behind me, helping me and guiding me through every decision.
Some of them are in my head, while some are real people who walk and talk to me,” Silva said.
“What do you mean, ‘in your head’?” Matilda asked.
“It’s not something you would understand, so I won’t explain.
I’ll be leaving in a bit. Just remember your part and play it right,” Silva said and left the office. The whole academy was already quiet, as if everyone had left due to the information about the battle that was happening.
Silva peacefully headed for the labyrinth at the bottom of the academy. He wanted to destroy the whole place because this place was made artificially, and he had a feeling that this artificial labyrinth used human and other race experiments.
It would explain the humanoid form that the Mangledons took.
He finally arrived at the gate, and there were no guards there, so he pushed the gate open and walked into the labyrinth. He took out his sword and raised it above his head with both hands.