[...]

[You have followed the guidance of the ’Seat Certificate of the Disciple’s Sanctuary’, and have now arrived at Council Hall 11...]

[A figure in a black robe stands behind the podium...]

[Amos: To be honest, I didn’t initially have high expectations of you.]

[Amos: The best outcome I could have anticipated was that you would survive the campaigns and advance to the Elder Council early.]

[Amos: I never expected you to exceed my expectations and actually emerge as the final winner... it’s like a dream.]

[Blood King: It is thanks to your great support that I was able to meet your expectations and become the final winner.]

[Amos: ...]

[Amos: There’s no shortage of apostles who are already capable of navigating Level 7 difficulty among the disciple candidates. In addition, there were many surprises in the campaign’s Chapters...]

[How did you pull off the win?]

[Blood King: My lord, it may just be that my luck was too good. Somehow... I just ended up winning?]

[Amos: ...]

[Amos: Among the twelve disciples, there are three tiers of seats. As disciples of the lower tier, you and I stand at the pinnacle of power, the existence that others must look up to. From now on, stop calling me lord.]

[Amos: Tomorrow, you will be crowned the twelfth disciple. There are some things you should know in advance...]

Within the New World organization, there are a large number of grassroots apostles hidden in the shadows. The upper echelons of the organization regularly hold the ’Ceremony of Dedication’ to bleed the bottom layers.

In the eyes of the organization’s high-ranking members, these grassroots apostles are both devoted lambs and indispensable resources.

The New World organization presents a unified front outwardly, but internally it is far from harmonious.

The survival rule within the organization is clear: the law of the jungle!

There’s fierce competition and infighting among the twelve disciples, driven by their struggle for control over the lower-level apostles.

The four upper-seated disciples each represent different factional powers.

The Elder Council is its own faction, with a complex web of power, including three major Elder Council powers and the apostles nurtured by each of the upper-seated disciples.

Vesinu, the third disciple, supports Amos from behind the scenes, and as a disciple personally guided by Amos, Lin Xun naturally belongs to his faction.

However, the supreme leader of the New World Organization, the ’Up-Looking’, tacitly accepts such internal competition. As long as it’s within reasonable rules, the ’Up-Looking’ will not interfere in the organization’s ’healthy competition’.

The situation recounted by Amos was more specific than the intelligence he had previously obtained from his female superior.

Not only did he explain the distribution of power and composition of personnel within each faction, he also clarified how to engage in ’healthy competition’ to shepherd more lambs at the grassroots level.

Lin Xun finally understood why there had been vacant spots among the disciples of the New World organization for so long.

Because the last Disciple War resulted in the death of three disciples. The disciples ranked at the bottom were then promoted up a spot, leaving the 10th, 11th, and 12th disciple positions vacant.

"Damn! Why do I feel as if the New World is rearing bugs?"

According to Amos, only the first disciple competition was presided over by the ’Up-Looking’ of the New World.

Afterward, numerous Disciple Wars led to the death of many disciples. Whenever a new disciple succeeded to a position, the ceremony was presided over by the three Elders of the Elder Council.

The ’Up-Looking’ has always been mysterious. Some lower-seated apostles have never met the ’Up-Looking’ in person until their death.

[Amos: That’s more or less the situation. Tomorrow, the organization will hold your coronation ceremony, which will be presided over by the three great elders, with all disciples in attendance.]

[Amos: You need to leave immediately and come with me to meet Lord Vesinu. Not within the game, but in reality...]

Amos stopped mid-sentence and took a long while before continuing.

Lin Xun had no way of knowing Amos’s facial expression, but from the text of his reply alone, Lin could sense his shock.

[Amos: What the hell is your actual background you little bastard?!]

He replied cautiously, the doubt clear on his metaphorical face.

[Blood King: Big...brother, what do you mean?]

[Amos: The ’Up-Looking’ wants to meet you in person! And he will personally preside over your coronation ceremony!]

???

Lin Xun was somewhat stunned.

Wasn’t it said that the ’Up-Looking’ is always mysterious, seldom appears, and hasn’t personally presided over a coronation ceremony for a long time?

Why is he suddenly appearing to preside over my coronation ceremony?

"Could it be that I have been exposed?"

Lin Xun furrowed his brows, but soon dismissed the thought as impractical.

If he has been exposed, there would only be two possibilities.

One is that the New World organization would hunt him, as they would rather kill by mistake than let a mole free.

The second is to feign ignorance, allowing him to remain in the organization so they can feed him false intelligence to mislead the authorities, or seize the opportunity to turn him into a double agent.

The current situation does not fit either scenario, so Lin Xun concluded that he has not been exposed.

After eliminating all the impossibilities, what remained was much easier to deduce.

The reason why the ’Up-Looking’ wants to meet him and hold the coronation ceremony for him might very well be due to the anomaly in the bonus Chapter!

Although Amos didn’t understand and was shocked by this, Lin Xun couldn’t explain it to him.

However, he couldn’t show any signs of panic at this moment, or it would give things away.

[Blood King: Brother, I was brought up by you, so of course I would tell you everything I can.]

[There are some things I can’t speak of, not because I want to hide them... but really, I just can’t speak of them!]