From Imp to Demon God: Conquering the Demon World With a Succubus-Chapter 86: The Knight Captain of the Veil Stalker Subdued!
Myles let the Commander carry him roughly until the dorm. As soon as the door was closed, the Commander politely pulled his hand and suddenly kowtowed in front of him.
"I am deeply apologetic of how I treated you, Emperor! Please punish me!"
Myles rolled his eyes and patted his body. The other Blood Knights were sensible enough to help him through it.
Myles sat at the bed of the Commander and continued to stare at him who kept kowtowing, seemingly waiting for his response.
He said, "I won’t punish you. You performed well earlier to dispel their doubts. Of course, not totally. We’ll expect the presence of the Veil Stalker soon. Can you sense him when he appears?"
The Commander of the Blood Knights was utterly surprised. He pondered for a while and shook his head.
"It might be difficult if he already mastered his demonic innate arts. Unless he attacks me, I will never be able to notice him."
Myles frowned.
He sighed and nodded.
"Then, return to your previous position now. Don’t be apologetic. You already did good."
The Commander of the Blood Knights bowed deeply again and exclaimed, "I’m very thankful of your generosity, Emperor!"
Myles simply nodded. "Mhm. Let’s sit in a circle and talk about some useless things."
Without hesitation, every Blood Knight followed his orders. Like before, Myles sat beside the knight captain and was simply quiet.
He was attempting to enhance his senses, attempting to connect to every shadow in the room.
He’ll definitely be exposed... there’ll definitely be a shadow once he appears.
Myles thought so. However, it would be difficult to sense a shadow with an owner who could perform dimensional walk.
Furthermore, the Veil Stalker’s shadow might be hidden due to how special their armor was. Hence, Myles was attempting his best to increase his chances of detecting the Commander of the Veil Stalker.
In the end, he failed to detect any anomalies in the room until it was the time where the Blood Knights had to sleep.
Left with no choice, Myles returned to his bed. However, he was surprised when a Veil Stalker was clinging to the same wall like the previous ones.
Of course, Myles was acting like he did not notice him and continued to assess him.
He frowned when he realized that the level of concealment the Veil Stalker had was many times stronger than the previous ones.
He thought. I suspect this is a knight captain...
Unlike before, Myles was ready to fight against them. After all, he had the biggest advantage compared to them.
The element of surprise—not only a surprise that he seemed to not be aware of their presence but the surprise of having trump cards that could stun them.
Myles was leaning on his bed without taking out his mantle. He was acting as though he was observing the other Blood Knights, seemingly peeking at them through the holes from time to time.
The Veil Stalker’s attention was caught by Myles’ bizarre actions. Hence, he remained in his position instead of returning the Commander to report that there was nothing unusual from Myles’ activities.
Myles had also anticipated it. He acted strange just to keep the Veil Stalker around him and attacked when everything was played perfectly.
Suddenly, as the Blood Knights had fallen into sleep, he sat up and left his bed. He stood still beside his bed and took a step forward.
When his foot hit the ground, he suddenly disappeared, causing the Veil Stalker to fall into a state of panic.
The Veil Stalker reacted quickly, but he failed to sense Myles’ presence who was clinging to the wall beside him.
He heard Myles’ voice echoing beside his ear, "Who do we got here?"
The Veil Stalker was about to perform a glass step when he realized his limbs couldn’t move.
His eyes widened only to widen even more when he saw shadow threads grabbing his limbs and instantly disabling them with the demonic energy they injected inside his body.
He fell into deep horror and wanted to turn around just to know if it was really Myles’ work.
However, he couldn’t move his head, causing him to keep staring at the position where Myles’ left.
Myles suddenly appeared in his previous position and the Veil Stalker was taken aback.
That was Glass Step! Surely a Glass Step!
A chill ran down his spines when he realized that not only Myles had the innate arts of the incubus, even their own innate art, too.
Suddenly, dots after dots began to connect.
The Veil Stalker was flabbergasted.
So, he really has the demonic innate art of the succubus and used it on my knight sergeant?
But why?
Why did he reveal himself?
Realizations dawned on him.
Perhaps, he wanted to lure us to his den?
While he was slowly being consumed by terrifying assumptions that were confirmed from the evidence in front of his eyes, all the Blood Knights, including the Commander, who were supposed to be sleeping, stood up and walked towards Myles.
He was about to rejoice. After all, if Myles was exposed, he would certainly fail to resist against the numbers of the Blood Knights.
To his horror, the Commander of the Blood Knights led the front and kneeled towards Myles with one knee.
He exclaimed, "Have you called us, Emperor?"
Myles nodded. "Mhm."
This guy is still quite difficult to crack. One last horrifying surprising event should be enough.
As expected, when all the Blood Knights kneeled in front of Myles with one knee, the knight captain of the Veil Stalkers was deeply horrified.
He gazed at Myles with extreme terror and the will to live was stripped away when he met his gaze.
...
[Congratulations! You have gained another follower.
You have 57 followers now, in total.]
The voice in his head echoed in his mind again, bringing satisfaction and relief to Myles..
After all, it would only be a matter of time before he ascended into Barony. Once he did so, it would be quite easier for him to gain more followers.
He turned towards the Veil Stalker in front of him, who kneeled with one knee, as he sat on his bed.
He asked, "So, can you tell me about what you know that led you to be here earlier than the usual, knight captain of the Veil Stalkers?"
