Drained

As Homer spoke, the ritual to corrupt everyone's minds should have taken effect, but even after a while, nothing happened!

He wasn't able to react immediately since a few of his corrupted Knights should've completed all the preparations they made and were protecting the key cores of the Formation. He had checked it himself and found the issues.

He couldn't immediately think of a reason why it suddenly failed!

Nonetheless, he wasn't too worried since he had a backup plan already. He could simply use his Demonic Domain to trap everyone here and begin his tedious process of corruption to control this empire.

'Right… This is all for the Demon Lord and to receive the promised Scepter!' The disguised Demon Saint said to himself. At this time, he could see the Knights and various Arcanists noticed a problem and had already formed a barrier to protect the Emperor… As for the Grand Knights, they were ready to fight!

'Foolish…' He thought…