THE EMPEROR OF TWO WORLDS

shadow troop meeting

The reason Jani asked for full rights of shadow control was because he was used to using such troops on earth and he also considered that they were the most reliable troops.

King Roman did not often use shadow troops, but he knew that of all the knight orders he had, the shadow army was the most difficult army to control because the majority of its members did not swear allegiance to him.

Hearing his son's request, King Roman seemed to be relieved of some of his workload, but he pretended to frown while asking "what are you asking for such a thing?"

"well, I don't know yet either, but they will be very useful to me in the future when I become crown prince."

Got an ambiguous answer, the King was a little disappointed but he still gave the rights in the form of a black token skull-shaped. Jani immediately kept the token and stood up and said "thank you dad! Please be willing to practice!"

"Alex, wait a minute!"

"what's the matter dad?"

"I want to ask you for your input on the church."

"what kind of input do you want?"

"do you think we should make the religion of holy light our primary religion?"

Jani paused for a moment, then calmly said "I don't think so. Because it would be against grandfather's wishes about building a country full of freedom."

"then are you willing to give them the temple of the 9 gods?"

Hearing the question, Jani had guessed that his father was given two difficult choices, namely giving the temple 9 gods or making the church religion holy light as the main religion of the kingdom.

Jani did not answer the question, but instead turned to ask the King a different question. "then father, are we going to give up with a group of self-styled bishops?"

"of course I don't want to! But their influence is very strong and it could be the end for this kingdom."

"that's if we just keep quiet, but if we move a step faster than them, then we'll know who will smile at the end!"

"do you have a plan?"

"of course! Let me explain. Right now they are planning to humiliate me when I give my speech the day after tomorrow. By infiltrating some of their paid people and spreading some baseless rumors to make people not trust me."

"oh! I just found out about it! Then how do you prevent that?"

"just calm down Dad! I've already put in place a plan to deal with that. All we have to pay attention to now is how to repay their plans and this is what we have to pay attention to."

Jani began to explain some important things to the King "First, we know that the representative archbishop of our kingdom is a very corrupt person, right?"

"that's right, the old man even pegged a tariff of 1 silver for those who wanted to enter the church of holy light."

"that alone is strong evidence for us to expel him from this kingdom, but the problem is that the distance of our kingdom from the holy kingdom is very far in addition to the many spies of the bishop who watches our movements like this!"

Suddenly Jani put a knife that is commonly used to peel the fruit towards the wall adjacent to the window. Using blood magic, the blade was so fast that even the wall could not block it and it continued to fly through the wall.

*GAAKKHH!!*

Not long after, a short scream was heard before his voice disappeared again. The King did not need to look at it and simply said "get rid of the trash and dig up useful information from it, no matter how!"

"as your highness wishes!" A Butler showed up and then he went to do the job he was given.

…

"i can't even feel his arrival, did he use space element magic?" asked Jani who was surprised by the figure of Butler who suddenly appeared in this room.

"that's right, he was one of your mother's disciples in this kingdom." The king replied telling him about the Butler.

"alright, let's continue what we talked about. To overcome this, we can use the teleportation circle to go to the territory of the first brother who became the border between our kingdom with the kingdom of holy light and of course the first brother who must be the bearer of the message."

"why should your first brother be the bearer of his message? Wouldn't it be better if you did it?"

"where did you know that!?" ask the king who was a little surprised.

"of course, I guessed it myself! From the way he's lacking appetite or when he's daydreaming a lot when we all talk together after dinner. There are usually two things that make adult men dizzy, one because of his finances and the other because of his romance. The city led by the first brother is one of the most peaceful cities with a stable economy. So, if not for Asmara, what else makes the first brother who is known to be a cheap smile to be moody and often daydreaming?"

Hearing Jani's Answer, the King finally sighed as he said in his heart 'it looks like I should indeed let Alex settle this matter as one of his trainings to become a future King.'

After saying that, the King finally stood up and said to Jani "Alright, I've decided! Alex Van Lester! I, as king, hereby give you your first assignment as the future Crown Prince; to fix religious issues to fit your Grandfather's dream of creating a free country! Are you accepting this assignment!?"

Of course Jani wanted to reject it because he thought it was a very complicated problem and when Jani wanted to answer it. The King immediately added "of course, to the Body sign to resolve this matter. I will promise that if you succeed, you may take one of the treasures from the palace's treasure vault, How? still want to reject it?"

Jani was speechless as entering the palace's treasure vault was the one he wanted. Then he finally realized that he was talking too much about his ability to read the expression of someone he did to his eldest brother Julius.

Having reached this point, Jani knelt down one leg and answered "I accept this task, Father. But this time there will be some noble families that must be removed for the sake of this kingdom, do you still want me to continue this plan?"

"continue, all this time I've been too lenient towards them for reasons of return for what their ancestors did to this kingdom. Now it's time for the Lester family to show off their once famous fangs for their sharpness to anyone!"

After saying this, the King left the dining room and followed Jani who went to his room to re-enter the system's dimensional training room.

Inside the dimensional room

Jani was still deepening his Mana control, and occasionally performed several high-level magic Spells to exhaust his Mana. After doing all that, Jani ended his training by doing meditation for the element of space magic and without being aware of it the dimensional room began to vibrate violently as if it would be destroyed at any time, but not long ago it was back stable with Jani who had already sensed that he had broken through the initial 2nd level at once.

Jani was pleased with the achievement and he tried to perform a magic level 2 of the Space magic element. This magic is called, 'Space' which is able to create a dome with a diameter of 3 meters and inside the dome the magician is able to control its Gravity as they please.

Actually Magic in the space element is very little but very scary because their magic can develop following the magician itself. For example, like this Space magic, if the first time in use in the second level then the dome formed is only 3 meters, only, but if the magician had already reached level 10 then it was possible that Space magic was able to cover the entire continent of Sculpture.

…

After Jani finished training he came out of the training room and saw that it was midnight and actually Jani wanted to go to sleep, but it was canceled because of the unexpected arrival of guests.

The guest was Zero, the leader of the Shadow Force and in the morning had upset Jani, but when Jani saw him again this time his feelings had returned to normal and he then asked "Uncle Zero, please, what's in the middle of the night like this?"

"Prince, I intend to return this book!" Zero took out the book that Jani had given him the previous morning and placed it in front of Jani.

At first Jani was quite surprised, but he had guessed it and he also knew the reason. Jani calmly asked "do you not want to inherit your ancestral heritage?"

"i've had discussions with my seven brothers and we decided to open a new chapter and blow up the shadow clan that had been destroyed in the past. we should have served the Lester family wholeheartedly, but it was because of my selfishness as leader that forced all my brethren not to take an oath to the King to this day."

"then will you swear to my father?"

"no, I have decided to swear to someone who will bring this kingdom to its glory and it is your noble third prince, Alex Van Lester!"

"Then how about we do a ceremony to prove your loyalty tonight?"

"what is the prince's ceremony?"

"later I'll explain, now gather the entire shadow army at your base now!"

….

The day had changed and now it had entered time in the morning blind to wait for all the shadow troops to gather. A total of 56 members of the shadow army gathered with 8 leaders standing in the front row facing Jani.

Seeing that everyone had gathered together, Jani said to everyone "good morning everyone. The reason I am calling you is to tell you that now the Order of the shadow troops has been completely under my control because the token of this army is now on me!"

When Jani showed the black skull token, everyone immediately paid their respects to Jani. After everyone saluted, Jani continued "and as the new in charge I decided to disband this shadow army"

When Jani said like that, He squeezed the token as hard as possible until finally the black skull token was smashed into pieces.

Everyone was shocked and confused as to why the prince had even destroyed the token. A leader codenamed Five shouted "WHY DID YOU DESTROY THE SYMBOL OF OUR BOND ALL, PRINCE!?"

"THE FIVE! WATCH YOUR TALK!!" Shouted a reply from Zero who exuded an aura of killing him so that the leader known to Five fell silent without a word.