CHAPTER 8
I had reached the gate of the knight's academy. The guards allowed me to enter just by seeing my car. I went over to the principle to find to choose two knights for my personal use. It was not uncommon for nobles to choose knights but it would be uncommon for a powerful person like me to choose a knight from an academy, unless it is a an extremely talented knight. But most of such knights are already in service of noblemen or already trained by the nobles. There are exceptions in such cases, such as either an unfavorable child of a noble family, a second-son without any resources or an extremely talented commoner. The hero of the novel had a knight named Christine by his side.
Christine was an orphan bought up by a pastor and later sent to the academy. He was by the side of the prince and later becomes a knight general of the country. If I had been a weak person I would have chosen him, understanding the plot but since I am a powerful person, I will not chose him. I don't need some self-righteous fool. I am going to choose two persons from the villain camp and enhance them. Let me see if the people of the hero camp can hold on. If they can't, I will support from behind. It is indeed interesting to stirrup trouble.
As I reached the door of the principal of the academy, I could hear some arguments. I went over to see some argument going around. I walked to the side and took my mobile phone and started playing games. After some time the door was opened and a person came out. He was extremely angry and walked away. He looked at the phone at my hand and snorted with energy, trying to pressure me. The automatic reflex I engraved on my clothes were activated and a huge pressure was activate all over the academy. The principle crawled out of the room and said aloud, "My lord. Stop releasing the pressure."
I stopped the release of pressure and stood up putting the mobile in my personal space. I looked at the boy and could see that this was one of the persons from the villain camp. A talented knight, the son of a baron. He had already inherited his territory and came here to advance further up the nobility. Now I will no longer be choosing to support you fool. You have lost a huge change. Ants will never understand the thought of an elephant and will never understand even the language and thought. And same is the relation between an human and a god.
I looked at the pitiful man and said, "Next time you do something foolish, remember the fact that you are just a bug in front of my eyes. Learn this lesson properly. I can kill you and still nothing will happen to me and no one will question me. You are insignificant. Grow properly and come to me. I can give you a chance."
He showed anger and fear in his eyes. After hearing what I said, he showed determination. An ant will always be an ant. When he comes to me after all the things he does to grow up, I will give him the chance to understand that he will always remain and ant and let him be. Let the chance be that I let him understand that he always was truly and ant.
I walked to the principal and showed him by badge. He showed surprise and invited me inside. I went inside and sat in the chair. The room was spacious and simple, but it was indeed luxurious. How can the principle of such an academy be an ordinary person! He smiled and gave me a wonderful elven tea mixed with orc spices. Orc spices are extremely rare due to their brutal warlike nature. I studied them once and came to the conclusion that they are a species made from genetic research on a cross breed between a goblin and an orc. A pure war-machine. But only magic was used and direct fusion was used and hence the out-of-control character. They never reached the genetic level of research. Mostly, a lot of samples was taken to take build such a thing. What a useless thing!
The principal was kind enough to wait for me. I smiled and said to the principal, "As you can I came to choose two knights."
The principal's face blossomed. I can understand it, since all successful graduations add a silver living to his career. He smiled and asked, "What kind of person do you want to adopt into your household? We have all kinds of knights targeting multiple professional paths."
I smiled and said, "You have mistaken principal. All I want is to host two knights, not to adopt two. I will be providing them with money, materials, exercises and status. Nothing more than that. As for what is needed in exchange? If they do not return what I want, I can take back myself."
The principal's smile had dimmed but it remained so. The hosting of two knights was indeed more useful but it made them more of a free knight living to make the name of the house blossom. Something similar to an actor acting as a spokesperson. An exclusive spokesperson.
He smiled and asked, "How do you want to choose? "
I smiled and said," The most stylish and flashiest. They may not be powerful as I have secret methods to take care of that but they should be handsome and stylish. And of course flashy."
He asked, "How to choose? Do you want to select from the best suggested by the teachers or to choose from a general selection?"
I said," Let it be from the teachers' suggestion. You can choose extra people. I would prefer people who are obedient. Also remove the man from outside and remove that commoner named Christine."
He spoke pouring me the tea, "Both of them are talented"
I drank the tea and spoke, "Talents cannot replace special exercises and resources but resources and exercises can replace talents. You should understand it."
We dabbled some common things. He called one of his secretaries to show me the college. I wanted to rest and went over to one of the guest rooms and resumed playing games. I could see that the women wanted to be with me but I did not like it much. I do not like used items. I only eat luxury items specific to me.
The time had come for the selection. I was respectfully invited to attend the selection. I went over to the fields covered by a dome. It was indeed beautiful, but not as beautiful as my own practise fields. Maybe I should indeed leave this world and go to the world of gods. This world is getting more and more boring. I saw the knights were standing there, in attention. They were respectful to me as I was someone they looked up to. The brainwashing on the national scale is bigger than I imagined. I walked over to the stage and looked at all of them. I released a part of my coercion and all of them were struggling to stand up. My coercion is more than enough to destroy the star system in an instant. The energy at the beginning I used to practise my body was pure vitality. Later I had turned to use star energy and then energy of space-time. Now I was practising using void energy. Even destroying the universe is more than enough for me.
After releasing the coercion all of the knight candidates looked at me with respect and yearning. I know that look. That was how I came to become one of the top person in my previous world. Extreme hard work to the limit. Maybe these knights might be different. Let me give them a chance.
I smiled and took two inheritance crystals from my space. I spoke using energy, "Anyone winning this match will be getting these two sub-saint level exercises. I will also be granting you 1 billion denari. I will also be granting permission to use as much mana cores or vitality cores as necessary to be used in as necessary as long as you do not take it outside my territory."
I looked at all of them. Even the teachers were looking at the things in my hand with extreme yearning. Even the principal was not a sub-saint powerhouse. I looked at all of them and spoke, "Also, I will be monitoring you and if any of you are wrongly accused or any wrongdoing done against you will be taken care by me."
I released my energy after converting it into mana. The energy was at the peak of saint-king level, the top most power. The power I released was all over the world. The planet could only handle this level as the if more energy is released, it will destroy the atmosphere and cause a catastrophe. The power was more than enough to shake everyone's firm heart. The capital was shaking. Thunder and lightning was filled all over the sky showing that a saint king powerhouse was acting.
My words were taken more properly. Everyone will be interested in talking to me as the position of the saint-king level powerhouse was more noble than that of the marquis. I looked at all of them. They were indeed trained soldiers. It will be interesting to take care of all of them.
I said, "The competition will be more useful if there are some benefits. Today's idea will be simple, battlefield. I have an AI driven battlefield and each member will be given an army of thousand persons of any type they want to command. The idea will be to perform well in this simulation. You will need to take care of the fact that alliances can be formed. If you cannot even form an alliance then this war will be useless as unlike this simulation, you will have to convince the people under you. There alliance will be limited to five people at the most and when ten people are left, you cannot use it anymore. The top two will be chosen. If the commander is killed, the army will be defeated directly. The first person had the precedence in choosing the inheritance. The first inheritance is an iron sword inheritance, concentrating on absolute attack attribute, useful for those practising in mana. The other one is based on vitality, golden body cultivation method, the body is tougher more you practise and has higher lifespan and regeneration capability."
Everyone was ready. Their faces showed their want. I activated the machine and all the spirits of all the people into the virtual soul space. After each of them chose the battle faction soldiers, I smiled and activated the countdown," Let the battle begin."