Dark knights is contrast to the white knights who is the epitome of goodwill. The Dark knight is good of heart, but cunning, manipulative and pragmatic.
The story of the birth of the world most powerful Dark Knights!

A nuclear attack has destroyed the world as we know it. The year is 2419. Japan is a dark and grim place ruled by demons. Once glorious, biggest cherry blossom tree is now dried. Lonely nephilim, Yuri Kinjo is humanity's only hope. Yuri finds the courage to start a secret revolutionary organization called The Dark Knights. The fight is jeopardized when Yuri is tricked by ruthless King of All Devils, Lord Rin Trotter, and injures her hand. Armed with swords and guns, The Dark Knights try their best to save mankind, but can they defeat tight-fisted demons and restore cherry blossom tree to its former glory?

Translated by XephiZ
Edited by Aelryinth
The shadows were not flat on the ground in the zone. They were standing there like living creatures. 
They looked like evil soldiers from another world. Their hollow eyes had a bright red glow, like flames were burning in them.
They had come here to take over the area by bringing utter destruction upon it!
The shadows resembled the Blue Star Knights, but each of them was riding a dark horned beast and they were holding different weapons. The Dark Aura released from their bodies engulfed them like armor! 
Black heavy armor, a dark horned beast as their mount, and deadly weapons with strong murderous intents: their Aura was already overwhelming as they were preparing for the fight!
Mo Fan had used Shadow Fiend: Thousand Troops in Egypt before, but the shadows he had Summoned back then did not have the excellent equipment that they did now. If the shadows only consisted of mere peasants in the past, this time he had Summoned a troop of Dark Knights from the Dark Plane! Their strength was not to be underestimated! 
The name Thousand Troops was a clear indication of the insane number of shadows. Mo Fan did not have a thousand men under his command, but the shadow knights before him were comparable to a troop of vanguards. Mo Fan gave his order, and the knights charged ahead, leaving a trail of killing intent behind!
The Blue Star Knights started panicking when faced with the overwhelming Aura of the Shadow Knights. They had no clue about how to defend themselves.
Heavy swords and spears thrust forward. In addition to that, the force of impact when the knights were charging at full speed was incredible. The Blue Star Knights were covered in rotting wounds after the shadow knights landed their attacks. Their flesh dried up rapidly, like wilting flowers.
The damage output of the Shadow Mirage was comparable to a Super Spell. The capabilities and strength of Dark Magic developed continuously as a Mage's cultivation improved. Even though Mo Fan had yet to learn how to draw the Star Palace of the Shadow Element, he could still use the Dark Material to cast powerful spells that were on par with the Super Shadow Spell! 
The strength of the Super Level was displayed by absolute destruction. The Blue Star Knights' defense was mere decoration compared to the Shadow Knights' advance. All of them were injured by the Dark Magic, and the pain was spreading throughout their bodies. Many had fallen to the ground with a dark rotting Aura rising from their wounds. They were no longer fit for battle.
The Shadow Mirage had brought the knights and warriors who had died in battles of the past back to life under the watching eye of the evil moonlight. They were launching a full assault on the people who had set foot into an unsettled land, leaving a huge mess behind!
The Blue Star Knights were still eager to challenge Mo Fan before he showed his Shadow Element, but after they were trampled by the Shadow Knights on top of being wounded heavily, their faces were filled with astonishment now. They had never realized they could be so ignorant…
"His Shadow Element..." Combat Officer Lido stared at the area, the Dark Aura starting to dissipate now.
He had doubted it at first, but he had now confirmed that Mo Fan was a Super Mage!
The Super Level was obviously beyond the Blue Star Knights' reach. Many Silver Moon Knights were not at the Super Level, not to mention that the young man's strength was comparable to a Golden Sun Knight. Lido wondered if they were the ones who had overestimated their own capabilities. 
The battleground cleared up significantly after the Shadow Mirage: Thousand Troops ended. Only eighteen Blue Star Knights were still standing, although they still had rotting wounds left by the Shadow Knights.
Those people were still protecting the dignity of the Blue Star Knights, whatever was left.
"He must be worn out after using a spell like that. This is our chance!" a few Blue Star Knights who were not willing to admit their defeat exclaimed.
They Summoned their Contracted Beasts and expended a huge amount of energy to construct a Summoning Gate and Summon the beasts from the Beast Plane.
They were going to return the favor after Mo Fan dispatched his troop of Shadow Knights to trample him back!
Four Blue Star Knights with the Summoning Element were working together. It was quite spectacular, as they Summoned four Contract Beasts and constructed four Summoning Gates.
Huge creatures with steel armor charged out of the Summoning Gates. They quickly filled up the area, running at Mo Fan like bulls who had been provoked by red capes. The ground was shaking hard.
"Flying Creek Snow Wolf, Little Flame Belle, I'll leave these Summoned Beasts to you."
Mo Fan Summoned the Flying Creek Snow Wolf. Little Flame Belle had always been in Mo Fan's body. She was very excited after she was given permission to fight on her own.
Little Flame Belle finally had the chance to fight an enemy as she pleased with the Flying Creek Snow Wolf as her support. She went straight at the beasts that were approaching and spat out a wave of flames when she saw their numbers.
The flames immediately set the area on fire like a lake of fire, blocking the path of the Summoned Beasts.
The horde was quite intimidated by Little Flame Belle's scorching flames, and decided to look for a detour.
However, when they were closing on Mo Fan, the Flying Creek Snow Wolf used his Ice Magic to set up a jagged wall like a frozen ridge and intercepted them. He then abused his agility to take them all down!
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Mo Fan did not use his Summoning Gate.
As a matter of fact, if he used his Summoning Element and Summoned his wolf army, the Blue Star Knights would have lost even faster. Leaving aside the question of whether the wolf army was able to defeat forty Advanced Mages on their own, as long as the wolves were able to provide Mo Fan with a safe environment to cast his spells, how many Blue Star Knights could possibly withstand his attacks?
Mo Fan's Advanced Lightning Spells were Silent Deadly Bolt and Electro Cannon, his Advanced Fire Spells were Sky-Flame Funeral and Flame Sword Feathers. Those spells had all reached the fourth tier, and there were also the Lightning Tyrant, the Blessing of the God's Seal, and the three Soul-grade Flames. The Blue Star Knights already struggled to handle his Advanced Spells, let alone his true trump card, the Super Lightning Spell: The Seal of the Nine Laws!
It was terrifying once a destructive Mage had a perfect environment to channel his spells. Mo Fan was already going easy on the Blue Star Knights!
Mo Fan had no intention to use his Summoning Gate. He was just using the duel as a way to practice his spells and his ability to react according to the situations in a battle.


He woke up in a familiar world that had vastly changed.

His familiar school had become a mystical school that teaches magic, encouraging everyone to become a mighty magician.

Outside the city, many wandering magical beasts and monsters attacked and preyed on humans.

His world of advanced science changed into one that praised magic. Despite this, his ambition in life, and his social status remained the same; one of the dregs of the society with a struggling father and a disabled step sister that couldn’t walk.

However, Mo Fan found that when most people could only practice a single major element of magic, he was a Versatile Mage!

The atmosphere was tense and hostile. Both sides were poised to attack...
Li Jingyi glanced at Jiang Aijian…
Leng Luo did not make a move. After all, he was not completely healed yet. He would be in a disadvantageous position if he fought the Four Dark Knights.
The Dark Knights seemed to have noticed Leng Luo's abnormal behavior. One of them sneered and said, "You've got guts trying to impersonate the chief. Kill them all!"
Several hundred Black Knights closed in on them.
Little Yuan'er was boiling in anger as she said, "Master, let me have a go at them. I'll make sure there's nothing left of them when I'm through with them."
Before Lu Zhou could reply, Leng Luo shook his head and said, "There's no need to intervene… After roaming this world for many years, I, naturally, have tricks up my sleeve." Instead of retreating, he advanced. This action shocked the others.
"Kill!" The Four Dark Knights attacked. Four long swords stabbed toward Leng Luo at the same time.
Leng Luo's hands were placed on his back from the beginning until the end. He had held a high and lofty position for so many years, he would not allow himself to be humiliated.
Whoosh!
Leng Luo suddenly vanished from sight.
In the next moment, he appeared among the Black Knights.
Bzzt!
At the same time, an Eight-leaf Golden Lotus avatar materialized out of thin air. Eight golden and shining leaves spun swiftly around the lotus.
The swirling energy tore through the ranks of Black Knights.
With a single move, the group of knights who numbered in the hundreds crumbled.
From a distance, the golden lotus resembled a golden and massive bowl.
The avatar disappeared as swiftly as it had appeared.
Although it merely maintained its appearance for a second, it was enough to deal with the Black Knights.
Eight-leaf was the known limit achievable by humans in the cultivation world.
The Righteous Sect and Heavenly Sword Sect had spread rumors about the Evil Sky Pavilion's patriarch achieving the Eight-leaf stage a long time ago and now possessed a Nine-leaf Golden Lotus. However, nobody believed it. Ye Tianxin had witnessed the Nine-leaf Golden Lotus and thought she had seen wrongly at that time. After all, when the Golden Lotus spun at top speed, it was difficult to determine the number of leaves.
Leng Luo's avatar was different. Similar to how experienced game players differentiated different items, at a certain level, cultivators could also determine the level of the avatar they were seeing.
The short-lived display of the Eight-leaf Golden Lotus scared the hell out of the Black Knights. Many of them reeled from the impact. Some of them threw up mouthfuls of blood, some cowered in fear, and some were in shock.
At this moment, Leng Luo no longer attacked. He stood straight with his hands on his back. He surveyed the Black Knights who had fallen on the ground and said, "Weaklings!"
The Four Dark Knights looked at Leng Luo with pale faces as they gulped.
Swords were scattered all over the forest floor.
The hundreds of Black Knights behaved as though they were facing an extremely formidable enemy as they struggled to get on their feet.
"We were blind for not recognizing you. Please forgive us, Lord Fan!" The Four Dark Knights immediately surrendered.
Against a cultivator with an Eight-leaf Golden Lotus avatar, even if the new leader of the Black Knights was here, they still could not do anything else but kneel.
Behind the Four Dark Knights, many of the Black Knights crawled forward and kneeled.
"It's Lord Fan!"
"All hail Lord Fan!"
"Lord Fan, you're alive!"
A hint of excitement could be heard in some of the knights' voices.
Alas, things changed with the passage of time. Although some things might remain the same, people would inevitably change.
Leng Luo said, "Lord Fan no longer exists in this world…"
"Lord Fan…"
"Silence!" Leng Luo said evenly. His voice was not laced with Primal Qi nor did it create soundwaves.
However, the Black Knights stumbled backward from shock. They looked at their former leader with expressions of disbelief and incredulity
The Four Dark Knights were not Leng Luo's former subordinates. They were wary since they had offended him earlier. Although these new Dark Knights could not be compared to their predecessors, they were still elites among the Black Knights. Regardless, faced with an Eight-leaf elite, they had lost all motivation to fight.
Lu Zhou and the others knew that Leng Luo could have killed every one of the Black Knights since they knew what kind of person he was. It was clear he was being merciful for old time's sake.
Leng Luo was wounded and his cultivation base was far from being fully recovered. It was more than commendable that he could even conjure his Eight-leaf avatar and maintain it for a second.
Lu Zhou thought Leng Luo might be a burden coming here. Who knew Leng Luo was capable of such a feat?
There was no need for Lu Zhou to make his move now.
A stiff expression appeared on Pan Litian's wizened face. However, he could not help but applaud Leng Luo for his technique.
Lu Zhou released Jiang Aijian.
Jiang Aijian sighed in relief. It felt as though he had been freed after spending 100 years in prison.
Lu Zhou stepped forward and said, "Leng Luo."
Leng Luo turned around. He no longer kept his hands on his back. Instead, he cupped his fists at Lu Zhou.
Upon seeing this, the Black Knights were shocked.
'Who's this person who managed to earn the respect of Leng Luo who has an Eight-leaf avatar?'
Everyone's eyes were trained on Lu Zhou at this moment. Although he appeared old, he seemed to be filled with vigor.
Little Yuan'er hurried after her master.
Lu Zhou looked at the Dark Knights and asked, "Mo Li's orders?"
The Dark Knights were not idiots. Even Leng Luo did not act impudently to this old man. They were not so foolish as to underestimate him.
One of the Dark Knights suppressed his fear and said, "The Black Knights are directly under the Imperial family's command. We're here on His Majesty's orders."
Lu Zhou turned to look at Li Jingyi and Jiang Aijian. He did not think that Mo Li would be so bold to control the Emperor.
In that case, there was only one possibility. The Emperor genuinely did not wish to see the demise of the Clarity Sect. That was why he sent Li Jingyi and the Black Knights to support the Clarity Sect.
Knowing the palace, there were only three forces available to them. The first was Wei Zhuoyan's men, but he was occupied with suppressing the rebel army. Even if he was here, he would not be much of a threat. Moreover, Lu Zhou had even saved Li Jingyi's life. The second option was to send the Black Knights. Without Fan Xiuwen leading them, their strength was greatly reduced. Moreover, with Leng Luo here, his former subordinate would retreat as far as three blocks away if they saw him. The third option was the Imperial guards. Naturally, the Emperor would not casually mobilize the Imperial guards.
This confirmed Lu Zhou's theory that the rascal, Yu Zhenghai, was opposing the Emperor. The heights of his ambition were abundantly clear.
Meanwhile, when Leng Luo recalled he had been controlled while he was the leader of the Black Knights, he realized that there was nothing about the Black Knights that he would miss. However, the Black Knights were the Black Knights. Many of his former subordinates had fought along with him in the past.
'I must sever my ties with my past. Fan Xiuwen is now dead, and I'm Leng Luo once again.' After thinking things through, Leng Luo looked at the Black Knights and bellowed, "What are you waiting for? Scram!"
The Black Knights behaved as though they had been granted amnesty. They hurriedly mounted their horses and quickly disappeared into the forest.
Once the Black Knights left, Leng Luo began to sway slightly. It was clear the move he had unleashed earlier had taken a toll on him. For now, that was the extent of his powers. His injuries were too serious after all. He could only keep up the cool act until now. He had finally cut off ties with his past.
Jiang Aijian carried his sword and walked over. He said meaningfully, "Old senior, that's a high-level trick you pulled there."
Little Yuan'er looked at Jiang Aijian in confusion and asked, "What move?"
"The Black Knights are the Emperor's pawns after all. Since you let the Black Knights go, you're just creating trouble for Yu Zhenghai," Jiang Aijian said.
Lu Zhou turned to look at Jiang Aijian and said gently, "You're really smart… Why don't you come to the Evil Sky Pavilion to have a cup of tea before you leave?"
"…" Jiang Aijian hastily waved his hands and said, "No, thank you… I have something to attend to. Old senior, let's meet another time." As he spoke, he slowly retreated. He was afraid Lu Zhou would grab him again. As he leaped into the forest, he said, "Old senior, before I leave, let me give you another piece of news. Your seventh disciple, Si Wuya, is at the Clarity Sect's main altar." His voice trailed off.
The others were rendered speechless.
Jiang Aijian only told Lu Zhou about this when he left. Just how much did he fear Lu Zhou?
Li Jingyi could not hold back her laughter. She quickly regained her composure and said, "I'll be taking my leave."
Lu Zhou had a good impression of Li Jingyi. At the very least, she was a tactful person. Hence, he did not stop her.
Li Jingyi led four of her deputies and the others away.
Silence descended on Slender West Lake again.
Lu Zhou turned around and walked toward the flying chariot. He scoffed as he said, "Rascal."
"Master, where are we going?"
"The Clarity Sect's main altar!" 


Lu Zhou wakes up to become the world's most powerful and oldest villainous Patriarch, and finds that he has nine notorious disciples who are full of evil. His eldest disciple is the leader of the Nether Sect with thousands of minions, and his second disciple—Sword Devil—always slaughters others at the slightest disagreement...
Without his cultivation base, how will he handle these evil disciples?
His eldest disciple, Yu Zhenghai, said, "I've never had a rival in my life, and no one but Master can make me bow my head."
His seventh disciple, Si Wuya, said, "We can't eat or sleep in peace as long as the Master is not dead!"
...
His ninth disciple, Yuan'er, said, "I'll remember what Master said and be a good person."

It was a war that involved the fate of all the races in the southeastern region.
And when the horn sounded for a counterattack.
The once-powerful dark creatures immediately started retreating to the Devil's dens in the face of the Dawn army. 
But the sudden appearance of Lancelot had cut off their retreat route!
Half of the Devil's Dens and all of the teleportation portals were destroyed in that attack. The dark army was on the verge of collapse as it had lost its sources of reinforcements. 
Many dark creatures had been crippled by the holy light. They did not have the energy to fight.
The attack that inflicted such damage was the super combo skill of the Temple Knights.
The Descent of the Sword Sage!
The Temple of Light had planned to deploy 800,000 Temple Knights to attack the dark creatures a month after the Darkness Invasion. The Temple Knights were to help the various Dukedoms rebuild their homeland.
But not all the Temple Knights had such tremendous power.
The Temple Knights led by Lancelot were named the Sword Sage Temple Knights.
The members were all second-generation knights. Their fathers were all Temple Knights!
Even the most inferior of them had Advanced bloodlines. They used Gold-quality equipment and rode on winged Celestial Steeds.
They descended from the clouds while being engulfed in holy light. They wielded holy swords as though they were the Heavenly soldiers.
The players who had been charging widened their eyes at the entry of the Temple Knights.
The scene shocked the players to the core.
"Darkness shall fade! Sword Sage Temple Knights, follow my charge."
Following the war cry of Lancelot, 3,000 Temple Knights rode on their white Celestial Steeds and dived at the ground surface!
As the Temple Knights were about to charge into the dark army.
All of them emitted holy light.
With Lancelot as their leader, they had formed a triangle that looked like a holy sword. The triangle cut deep into the dark army!
"Oh my gosh! It's unbelievable…" Some players watched in disbelief. The dark army that spanned tens of thousands of meters in length had been penetrated in just a short period of time. The Temple Knights made a U-turn for a second round.
The dark creatures did not have any morale.
It was obvious that they feared the holy light and the professionals of the Light element.
"Tsk, tsk, actually the Blade Cavalry Legion of the City of Dawn is also superb. Too bad, the cavalry is not airborne," a player said. He was not happy that the Temple Knights had stolen the limelight.
But it was the truth.
When the heavy Blade Cavalry legion charged into the dark army, all the Thunder Warhorses would emit lightning bolts. 
The lightning bolts of the Thunder Warhorses would link together. 
And they would form an ocean of lightning bolts.
The dark creatures that were thousands of meters in front of the horses would be electrocuted to death.
When the Thunder Warhorses galloped, nobody could stop them.
William did not have time to chat. He had his eyes fixed on Goethe Nasis. He did not have to bother with those violent silver-backed monkeys who were creating havoc in the dark army.
Their Health Points were unbelievably high.
Each of them had hundreds of thousands of Health Points…
Unless many devils ganged up on a monkey, the ant-like dark creatures were unable to inflict any damage on the monkeys.
As the health point recovery of the monkeys was much faster than the damage inflicted.
"Burned Cinder, follow me. You'll distract that Advanced devil." William and Burned Cinder transformed into two rays of crimson light as they dashed in the dark army.
The colors of the battle energy were outstanding. Wherever they went, they left a trail of crumbling corpses.
It was two Advanced professionals against many Intermediate dark creatures.
Unless the Intermediate dark creatures had Advanced bloodlines, they could stop them.
They could not penetrate the battle energy shields of the Advanced professionals.
Due to the inferior levels, attributes, bloodlines, and battle energy quality, the dark creatures were unable to inflict any damage on the Advanced Legendary BOSSES.
The battle reached a peak within a short time.
Ferocious bellows were heard on the battlefield in the south. 
There were many Advanced professionals in the Black Lava Dukedom, like the muscular Violent Dragon, the Earth elemental shield-bearer Wells, and Diablo, who had emerged to battle the Darkness Invasion!
They brought along the royal guards and penetrated into the heart of the darkness army like a heavy broadsword.
There were 300 Fire elemental Dragon's blood warriors in the ranks of the royal guards.
Due to the counterattack of the Black Lava Dukedom,
Massive casualties were inflicted on the dark creatures, and they had to repeatedly retreat.
"What the f**k?" Makhu Redd cursed when he saw his dark creatures retreating. He grumbled, "I've said that we need to defeat Black Lava Dukedom first, but that moron wanted to attack the City of Dawn. He's such a fool."
Makhu Redd was wary of William because he had been tricked by William twice.
The first time he had intended to ambush William in the Misty Valley, but he had been tricked by William instead. In the Dragon slaying battle, he did not expect William's presence and was tricked again.
The more times he encountered William, the more furious he became. 
Makhu Redd regretted that he did not kill William in one stroke. He missed the chance of killing William because he tried using Soul magic on him! 
Makhu Redd made William fall down the tree and pretended to be dead. It was actually a redundant move.
"I'm leaving this god-forsaken place. I'm going to the Emerald Grand Duchy for a change. I can't believe that the Darkness Invasion had failed. I'm resigned to fate." Makhu Redd did not bother with the devil commanders and intended to flee.
He was not a slave of the devils. Instead, he had caused the death of many devils.
His only goal was to become stronger and stronger.
The Darkness Invasion of the southeastern region was about to fail. The devil commanders would be punished together with the dark warlocks who led the dark army into the region. 
"It's better that I defect to another Devil Lord." Makhu Redd pondered and gave an eye signal to a nearby devil.
"Wait here while I get reinforcements. I'll be right back."
The Advanced devil glared at Makhu Redd and was about to rebuke.
But Makhu Redd transformed into black smoke and drifted into the Devil's Den.
The 200,000-strong Dawn army was to fight with the 500,000-strong dark army.
The 12 legions of the Dawn Army and 6 reserve legions of Stormy Island advanced towards their enemy.
If one viewed from the sky,
One could see 18 legions had been organized into 54 orderly formations. They marched forward on the battlefield that was littered with flaming rocks tossed from the catapults.
The Elves would never retreat.
When they were fighting, they did not make any sounds. They silently slashed.
When the Human legions fought, they furiously roared as they slashed at the enemies.
The 10,000-strong Seraphkin legion now had only slightly more than 8,000 soldiers. They followed behind Xiyan, who extended her pure white wings and charged rapidly into the dark army.
Fiu Roeser led the Tauren Warriors and charged forward. They were using their horns as weapons.
The battlefield was filled with corpses.
But the invigorating drum beats could be heard over a hundred miles.
The furious war cries of the warriors pierced through the dark clouds and reverberated in the sky.
Countless warriors were fighting a bloody war.
It was a war fought by millions of warriors of different races.
It was like a grand and Epic war story being told by a bard.
Nobody knew how long the war would last.
But everyone understood.
It was Light against the Dark.
It was a fight to the death.


This thought had grown deep in William’s mind!
This is the reason for his decision.
He was going to become the strongest NPC ever.
He will have the strongest armor and get beaten badly!
Who said that NPCs will have to be killed by players?
Who said that NPCs will level up slower than players?
Who said that NPCs will only drop equipment on the ground dead? He could drop dead even more… Touch wood!
Anyways, he will not die. With all of you weak players, I wouldn't even furrow my eyebrows once if I stand here and let all of you attack me!

Three days later…
The farms on the yellow plain of the Molten River area were smoking and the mountains were burnt black. There were burnt marks and bloodstains all over the ground.
The green farms were deadly silent and the dark smoke was rising to the sky.
Blue light dots flashed in front of Angele's eyes; he slowly walked through the farms with a yellow cane in his hand. He was wearing a black hat and his long red hair was trailing down his chest.
It was afternoon. The golden sunlight illuminated the farms.
Angele glanced around.
'These are the farms around a city of the Molten River area… Why is there no one here?'
The area was empty, the only thing he could see were the farms.
On the far side, Angele could see tall mountains that looked like pyramids.
"Tarren Volcano mountains…" Angele muttered.
Suddenly, translucent energy waves appeared around the mountains, they looked like smoke rings that were disappearing into the air.
Minutes later, Angele noticed that the wind was getting stronger and his expression changed.
'The energy waves are so strong…' He stopped.
'I shall stay away from that area and find a location here.'
Angele walked down the path and found a relatively large hill.
He stood in front of the hill and grasped forward.
*BAM*
The yellow hill was damaged and a black crack appeared. The crack slowly turned into a dark tunnel leading underground.
Angele could see that mud, stones, and sand were solidifying—they were turning into the walls of the tunnel.
His face turned pale and his forehead was covered with sweat.
After about half an hour, he sighed with relief and lowered his hand. He walked straight to the crack.
He stepped into the crack, the tunnel was leading down. Angele had to keep digging so that he could keep advancing.
The underground tunnel he created was already more than one kilometer long after a while.
The tunnel was dark and the white fireball that was floating around Angele's body was the only source of light.
Angele stopped digging after the path in the front was blocked by minerals. He sat down with his legs crossed and the walls of the tunnel were slowly pushed back.
He took out many white magic stones from the mirror; the magic stones were covered with complicated runes, and Angele lined them up following a certain pattern.
The magic stones would start releasing bright white light after Angele put them down on the ground. Seconds later, there were more than ten magic stones on the ground.
Also, the place was becoming more and more spacious every time a magic stone was laid down.
The end of the tunnel quickly turned into a large stone chamber and it was a perfect cube.
Angele put down the last magic stone and pressed on the ground while chanting some incantation.
*WOO*
All the magic stones on the ground released eye-blinding white light, they connected with each other and formed a complicated magic rune. The white light brightened up the whole stone chamber.
Angele stood up and nodded. He pointed at the tunnel and the tunnel quickly collapsed. The mud and stone melted; it almost looked like the tunnel was never there.
The whole stone chamber turned into a private area that had no entrance or exit.
Angele raised his hands slightly, creating a table and a set of chairs. He walked to the table and took out a dark crystal orb from the black mirror.
He put the crystal orb on the table and tapped it slightly.
Gentle white glow was released by the orb and an image of the farms appeared.
It was the scene that Angele saw before creating the tunnel.
Angele was not concerned, he bit his finger and started drawing a skull pattern on the table using his blood.
Strangely, white patterns appeared on the walls of the chamber as he drew on the table. It felt like there were invisible knives engraving them.
The irregular patterns on the walls looked like random circles and human-shaped creatures.
Angele finished the edges of the skull and he started adding details to the skulls line by line.
'It's a problem…' Angele's expression changed as he started on the details.
He noticed that his mentality was being pulled out of his body as he drew the lines. It felt like the skull was sucking his blood.
Angele almost thought that there was a creature sucking his blood through the wound on his finger.
Time passed.
Angele's face turned pale and he finally finished the details.
'It's the first sign and half of my mentality is gone… It felt like I'm signing a contract…'
He stood up and the wound on his finger quickly healed.
The sign was closely connected to his mentality wave. If the sign was damaged, his mentality would also be damaged.
'Alright, Bone's sign is done but I still need to work on the other ones.' Angele rested for a while and created another tunnel on one of the walls. The tunnel was also leading down.
Angele spent the next several days building two more stone chambers for Vapor and the man with a cape.
The signs of the lords were all completed in the stone chambers and he set up several hidden rune circles for alarm.
Angele still needed to collect the souls for the ritual after completing the signs.
He stayed in the chamber with Bone's sign and observed the crystal orb carefully. He was checking the situation of the war.
Four days later, things finally changed on the plain.
In the crystal orb, a small team of golden eagles landed on the farms. Knights wearing white armor who varied in gender were riding on the backs of the eagles.
The knights jumped off the eagles and checked their equipment. They started checking the surroundings immediately.
"Damn monsters! They should all be slaughtered and tortured!" A muscular knight cursed.
"Be careful everyone, we detected some energy movement here several days ago, there might be a trap!"
The female knight behind him had a blank expression on the face. She drew the silver dagger and carefully cut her left arm open.
Red blood spurted out of the wound and dropped to the ground.
Red mist permeated the air after the blood landed on the ground.
The female knight stopped the wound from bleeding and observed the blood mist. She shook her head after several seconds.
"Nothing? They probably left," a blonde knight spoke in a deep tone. "We still need to be careful. There was a fight in the south and it seemed like they initiated the fight."
"Come on, be brave!" The muscular man grabbed his ax and swung it several times. He swung the ax so fast that the blade of the ax blurred.
A team of dark-red vultures appeared in the sky as the knights talked; there were five dark knights on the back of the vultures.
The vultures looked like mutated vultures, but their claws were covered with silver needles. The claws looked like iron plates with spikes.
"Prepare to fight!" The female knight detected the enemy first, she grabbed the long bow and fired at the dark knights.
The black arrow left the bow and turned into three black strings, flying toward the dark knights.
Each of the black strings was followed by a shadow that looked like a monkey. The monkeys were jumping at the dark knights like crazy.
*BAM BAM BAM*
After the noise, the dark nights were all surrounded by a dark mist.
The arrows flew into the dark mist like stones falling into the water. It felt like the arrows did not do anything. 
"It's a dark knight captain! We need assistance!" the female knight shouted.
Two of the knights nodded and jumped on the golden eagles. They quickly left the battlefield. 
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In the stone chamber.
Angele observed the situation carefully using the crystal orb.
Two eagle knights were fighting against two dark knights; however, it seemed like the dark knights were just playing around. They had many chances to kill the eagle knights but they were just blocking the attacks.
"They're just bait," Angele muttered.
The other dark knights were rotating in the sky, they were laughing while watching the fight.
The situation lasted for several minutes.
Dozens of golden eagles appeared in the sky; the leader was a young man in silver armor. He was a handsome man with a two-meter-long spear in hand that was reflecting the sunlight.
"Retreat!" The dark knights' expressions changed and they started retreating immediately.
One of the dark knights was slowed down by the man with an ax. His chest was pierced through by some blue lightning and he quickly fell off the vulture.
The dark knight exploded as he landed on the ground, his body turned into black smoke and disappeared into the air.
The soul of the dark knight sank into the ground and no one noticed it.
Angele sat in the chamber and narrowed his eyes.
He raised his head and saw a human-shaped soul coming down from the ceiling, flying to the skull sign on the table.
It only took one second for the soul to be absorbed by the sign.
'The soul of a dark knight is the same as a soul of a normal knight?' Angele's brow furrowed. The dark knight had the same power level as a rank 3 apprentice, but his soul was weak.


Ye Song, who once lived in a technologically-advanced world, died and reincarnated into a noble teenager’s body in another world.
A fantasy world filled with magic!
A series of events filled with tragedy, action, etc. began to unfold one after the other when he fatefully encountered one of the most guarded secrets of this world, obtaining the legendary power of Wizards.
Watch how he reaches unreachable heights as a powerful Wizard in this new world.
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Release Rate: 7 Chapters/Week; One each day. 
P.S. This has become a serious problem so I have to put it in the synopsis: First, I would like to thank everyone who spends their time reading this book. Second, I just want to say that this is not a WMW (Warlock of the Magus World) copy. TWW finished two years before WMW started. 

Was the royal family short of money?
The answer was, of course, a no!
King Aldrich issued a series of decrees after he succeeded the throne.
Most of these decrees were beneficial to the country and the people.
It was not an exaggeration to describe the Kingdom of Kate as "rich country with strong people" after more than ten years of development!
The number of gold pounds that the royal family could collect every year from the tax revenue alone was an astronomical figure!
And, the royal family has some official property too!
Such as iron, salt, large-scale machinery manufacturing, and so on.
These industries brought a huge amount of wealth to the royal!
So, the royal family was not short of money!
And at this moment of national survival, whether it was last night when Balo heard Andrew talk about the last dark calamity, the terrible experience of the Orthodox Church.
Or now, the Kingdom of Kate had to rely on the Orthodox Church to resist this great calamity.
The royal family had to show their attitude!
Just a little overtime pay was just the beginning of the attitude!
"Then thank you, Mr. Balo. Thank you for the generosity of the Royal Family!"
Andrew nodded and no longer spoke nonsense.
"There is also the matter of the pope's upcoming arrival other than this matter."
"As you all know, the Pope will inspect the governance of the various churches and the strength of the clergy every time he makes an inspection tour!"
"It's another invasion by the dark creatures this time!"
"Therefore, His Holiness the Pope has decided that this time's inspection tour will be different from the previous ones!"
"First of all, the inspection of the governance of the various churches will be postponed."
"The inspection will be changed to an inspection of the leadership ability of the cardinal and above."
"The second inspection, the ability of the clergy will also be integrated into the first inspection."
"In short, there will only be one inspection during the Pope's pilgrimage, which is the battle drill of the army."
"Of course, the battle drill of the army will not be carried out according to the tasks that have just been assigned to you."
"At that time, each cardinal will lead 1,000 Holy Knights, 300 Holy Choir Knights, and 200 warriors of the Judicial Department, a total of 1,500 people."
"Then, a large-scale battle between armies will be carried out in the Suva Mountains near the capital." 
"There is only one purpose! That is to intimidate the werewolves!"
Andrew sighed and said in a deep voice.
"No one is willing to fight those dark creatures if there is no war!"
"We will lose a lot of excellent knights regardless of the outcome!"
"Therefore, I give you only one mission in the battle drill of the army!"
"That is to show your imposing manner! Show your standard! Show the combat strength that makes the werewolves tremble in fear!"
Balo stood up and said solemnly.
"At that time, the kingdom will also send three elite armies, namely the Iron Knight Army, the Iron Thorn Army, and the Iron King Army, to participate in the combat exercises of your armies."
"These armies will also participate in the battle against the dark creatures in the end."
"I also hope that you can think of a way to integrate the Holy Knight Army and the Kingdom's army in this exercise. Only by doing so can we minimize the casualties and fight against the dark creatures together!"
Monn's expression was solemn. He could feel the aura of a storm coming!
The dark creatures and the humans had always been mortal's enemies!
Monn could still see the cruelty and terror of the werewolves and bloodsuckers from the various reports even he had never hunted dark creatures!
Now, a great battle was imminent!
Monn could not help but feel a surge of hot blood in him!
He was already at the Holy Rank, standing at the peak of this world!
But even so, Monn did not dare to say that he was invincible!
He had to be very careful this time.
And it was time to let loose and fight besides being careful!
Monn was looking forward to when his God Rank Spell, [ Demon Sealing Dance ], bloomed on the battlefield.
How many dark creatures would he be able to destroy?
The few of them chatted in detail for a while before settling all the matters.
Monn was assigned to lead the entire Holy Knights.
The Deputy Commander of the Holy Knights, who was currently in charge of St. Servant's Cathedral, would become his deputy.
The deputy commander was called Philip. His ability was similar to the other cardinals, and they were all at the Amethyst Rank.
After the few of them walked out of the meeting room, they dispersed.
Monn had always been in charge of the affairs within the cathedral before that.
Now, he had handed over these tasks to some archbishops.
Monn then headed straight for the Holy Knights' base.
The Holy Knights' base was not far from the cathedral, about seven to eight hundred meters away!
Monn took out Andrew's handwritten letter and handed it to the serious and unsmiling Deputy Commander Philip after he arrived.
Philip placed his hands on his chest and gave a standard salute after taking the letter.
Then, he shouted. "Deputy Commander Philip will be waiting for your instructions at all times!"
Monn nodded and said lightly.
"Tell me about the current situation of the Holy Knights later."
"Yes!"
Philip brought Monn into the base after saluting again.
The base of the Holy Knights was vast. Usually, there would be a part of the Holy Knights carrying out missions outside.
However, all these knights had been summoned back at that time.
"Reporting to Cardinal Monn, there are a total of 25,000 ordinary warriors in the Holy Knights under the Holy Church of St. Servant currently. Their average strength is Grey Iron Rank."
"There are a total of 3,000 knights who have reached Mithril Rank. They are the captains and vice-captains of various Knight Squads."
"There are a total of 500 knights who have reached Black Gold Rank. Among them, 200 are the captains and vice-captains of various Knight Squads. The remaining 300 knights form an elite Black Gold Knights!"
"Currently, only I and my vice-captain, Toan, have reached Amethyst Rank!"
Monn was secretly surprised upon hearing that.
The level of martial strength in this world was not low!
They could still fight with some ferocious beasts with their bare hands even if they were only at Grey Iron Rank!
For those who had reached Mithril Rank, they couldn't be injured by ordinary people as long as they held sharp blades in their hands!
As for Black-Gold Rank, they possessed inhuman strength!
Every Black-Gold Rank knight could face an ordinary army of over a thousand people head-on!
And here, there were 500 Black-Gold Rank knights!
There were 3,000 Mithril Knights!
One had to know that an individual strength was terrifying. It was most terrifying when an individual's strength was gathered into an army!
Even if they did not enter a confrontation situation when they face their enemy, just these powerful knights casting spells at the same time could cause large-scale casualties to the enemy!
Monn suddenly asked after thinking for a moment.
"What are your usual fighting styles?"
Philip was stunned.
Knights…how else could knights fight?


Morn transmigrates into a fantasy world where demons run rampant, vampire families stand tall in the darkness all year round, werewolves that are preparing for something in the darkness, and angels who occasionally descend into the human world. 

As a cardinal of the Orthodox Church, Morn had been bound to the nine-to-five system after he arrives in this world. As long as he's at work, he can obtain a large number of rewards by checking in. 

Therefore, having been in the ten years of the Orthodox Church, he becomes an invincible existence. Although he is the strongest in the Orthodox Church, he has one flaw—he never works overtime. 

"Your Holiness, Cardinal Morn personally went to the Dark Forest and killed all the dark cat demons."

"Your Holiness, Cardinal Morn just returned from the Bloodthirsty Demon Abyss with the head of the Bloodthirsty Demonic Dragon."

"Your Holiness, this is bad! Dracula I brought his army of vampires here to take revenge. "

Pope: "Quick, get Cardinal Morn."

"B-but Cardinal Morn has knocked off. He has a rule that he works 9-to-5. He never works overtime."

Pope: "We're doomed. Our Orthodox Church's 300-year history shall end here."

A long time ago, when the dragon's started to use the dragon sword magic, Dragon King ordered to the dragons to teach the dragon sword magic to the people.

Because Dragon King knew that the Dark Dragon was going to attack to the lands of the humans.

Dragon King knew that how powerful that the Dark Dragon was.

That's because the dragon knights got trained by the dragons and prepared to fight against the Dark Dragon.

But Dark Dragon done something not expected by nobody.

Dark Dragon turned to a sword and the dark emperor started to conquer the ancient empires.

At the start of the battle, dark emperor won against the Dragon King and dragon knights.

Dragon King fell down at the battle field and dragon knights withdrew as the dark emperor started to win the battle.

When the Dragon King fell down, Dark Dragon believed that the war was over.

But the war was far from over. The dragon knights were humans but they still fought agains dark emperor and tried to protect every empire and the maze.

Some of the dragon knights fell down at the battles but they never gave up.

At the end one dragon knight took down the dark emperor at the maze and the battle was over.

At least that was what everyone thought.

Before the maze was constructed, there was the ancient empires known with their magnificent powers.

When the ancient empires were being weakened day by day with their continuous wars between them, a man who called himself as dark emperor showed up and declared war to every empire.

Many empires and kingdoms fell in the wind of war that caused by the dark emperor.

While the hopes for the peace were almost lost, Forgotten Masters constructed a maze to protect people from the war of the ancient empires.

Maze succeed to protect the people from the war of the ancient empires and even from the dark emperor himself.

Years have passed but the history never changed.

When the people started a new war inside the maze, Arthur woke up in a dark dusty room and just managed to survive somehow but with a problem, who was Arthur?

This is the story of a man, who tries to learn his past while the bells of the war is ringing.

Alexander, a Knight from the past who dies in a fight, travels to our time to meet his past friend Helena, a Sorceress, but she reborn as a different girl called Asuka. Now together have to face the dangers to save the world from monsters, enemies and the Dark Knights.

Bernie felt pain pierce through his body and groaned. The knights, without giving him a chance to recover, immediately stabbed him in multiple spots.
Perhaps it would have helped if he had the usual thick black armor that Demonic knights wore. But, as the kingdom did not have enough of them, he had to come wearing ordinary knights armor, which was changed into black color with the help of cursed stone.
Bernie felt his vision darkening slowly, but he refused to die without atleast killing the guy who stabbed him.
In a last ditch effort, he leaped onto the knight behind him, who was the one who backstabbed him, and stabbed him through his stomach. The other knights who saw this immediately stabbed him again.
Bernie felt pain in every part of his body, but he felt immense pride because he tried his best in this battle. He had not let down his king. He was going to die as a warrior, with his pride completely intact.
He looked at the ground filled with blood, which could probably be his own, and felt his conciousness and life slowly fade away.
He offered a last prayer to god, hoping that he could be born as a warrior again in his next reincarnation.
["This dude is really dedicated. He wants to become a warrior in his next reincarnation too, and is praying for it. If it was me, I would have prayed for something like, 'Please make me reborn as a rich young master', or,  'Please make me reborn in a vacation planet.", said the editor with admiration in his face.
"Just clearing something up, the people of the last world, (Lyria) believe that their ancestors become gods, and after they die, they'll become a part of the gods too. But the humans of Ilin, on the other hand, believe in a singular god, and in reincarnation. The demons and witches of course, have other beliefs.", said the author.]
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Merrion was literally praying to the gods at this point, as he did not know if they would win or not.
Their knights fell in mass numbers, while the demonic knights fell too, but by single digits. But, there were less numbers (way less, like 100 dark knights and 10,000 knights) of demonic knights compared to their knights, and that was his only consolation and remaining hope.
[Ok a note from the author, if I've written dark knights anywhere in the last two chapters, please think of it as demonic knights. I had first thought of calling the Demonic knights as dark knights, only to remember that I had written about some dark knights in Ayter's invasion already. 😅]
The war continued fiercely. The Demonic knights were falling slowly and the number of knights was decreasing rapidly. 
Finally, the number of Demonic knights fell to single digits and the knights were in hundreds.
Merrion wanted to go down and battle himself, but he knew that even if he battled, it was useless as he could at most kill one ordinary knight before dying. After all, he was an old man spending his last few years in managing his kingdom. He cursed himself for coming to this war.
Why the hell did he have the sudden urge to expand? He could have gone on vacation with his wife, but now he was stuck here, not knowing if he would make it out alive or not. The only happiness that he had left was that he had not brought his son to the battle.
Finally, one dark knight was left and around hundred and ten soldiers were left. After a fierce scuffle, the dark knight finally fell with forty soldiers living.
The three kings felt like they had just endured and survived heavenly tribulation. The king of Laitidel laughed with relief and started mocking the king of Eryeth.
"Is this all you and your ancestors did? And here I thought that it would be something deadly!", said the king of Laitidel with a mocking smile, forgetting that he had just nearly pissed his pants due to the Demonic knights.
The king of Eryeth, listening to the mockery of the king of Laitidel, did not get angry. He instead started laughing. His laughter was filled with anger.
"No. There's still one thing we made.", said the king of Eryeth with a maniacal grin.
He suddenly took out a bottle made out of wood, brought it to his mouth and drank the liquid in it.
His eyes suddenly turned blood red, and his skin turned pitch black with his muscles and veins bulging.
His hair turned blood red and his teeth all expanded with sharp edges.
He then laughed in his extremely deep voice which sounded like the roar of a beast.
"This was one of our products. We never used it on anyone because all the people we tested it on died, unable to bear the pressure that this mixture put on their body. But, luckily, it's working perfectly for me.", said the king of Eryeth.
["Two questions. The king of Eryeth is a clone isn't he, and why did it work for him?", asked the editor curiously.
"Yes, the king of Eryeth is currently the clone pretending to be him, and we can give an oscar for it's acting, we can, and it worked for him because it's the clone, and the clone can withstand more pressure applied on it's body than humans.", explained the author.]
Merrion felt like slapping the king of Laitidel. He was such a jinx. He had said that there was nothing deadly, and the king of Eryeth suddenly took out a potion that could change him into a monster. 
The king of Eryeth rushed at the remaining knights, piercing through their stomach with his hands which had unbelievably sharp nails (like wolverine's, but he's not as powerful as wolverine).
The knights stabbed and hacked at him with their swords, but it only made small scratches at his ridiculously tough skin.


Power. Isn't that the one thing which people need? With money comes power, and with power comes money.

Harry, a boy who was abused daily by his father when he was back in Earth, dies just when things were looking good for him. A new job, a new life away from his father, all vanish in a second.

He transmigrates into a medieval world, into the body of the once crown prince of Andestein who is in dire straits.

The crown prince of Andestein is banished to Lyria, the land of barbarians. The people of Lyria absolutely despise royalty.

How will Harry survive in Lyria? Will he really be able to control the people of Lyria? What is his fate? 

[Note : This novel has quite a few triggering scenes, please read only if you are okay with gore and traumatizing content.]

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