Global Game: Developing a Knight Clan

Chapter 518: Chapter 104: General Ed, the Hidden Player

"Ed!!!"

"General Ed!"

"We finally took it! We’ve finally taken Kebid Fortress!"

In the council hall of the City Lord’s Mansion.

As a military affairs officer from the front lines excitedly burst into the hall, the several people gathered around the sand table all broke into knowing smiles.

"Are you sure we’ve taken it!?"

"This isn’t another premature report of victory sent mid-battle, is it?"

Apparently, Ed had experienced a similar incident before.

So when he saw the officer enter, his face grew stern, and he asked again for confirmation.

"No, it’s not!"

"General, you know Bain! He isn’t that kind of person. Otherwise, why would you have entrusted him with this campaign?"

"This is a message passed on from Bain’s personal guards."

The military affairs officer, his expression still joyful, confirmed it once more.

It was clear that even this officer was genuinely thrilled about this great victory.

Hearing the officer’s confirmation again, Ed’s expression froze for a moment.

Then, he suddenly burst into loud laughter.

"Hahaha!!!"

"Finally! It’s been half a year! That kid Bain really lived up to our expectations!"

"Good!!! Excellent!!!"

Ed laughed heartily.

At that moment, the six subordinates beside him exchanged excited glances.

"Congratulations, General!"

"We’re just one final step away from establishing a Kingdom for our Salvation Army!"

"This is more than good! It’s earth-shattering news."

"Kebid Fortress was the most strategic and perilous fortress of the Old Era Kingdom!"

"With it in our hands, the Divine Guard Army, which currently controls over a dozen cities near the Royal Capital, will have no more defensible positions."

"Next, in the war on the Great Plains, the Divine Guard Army will be no match for us!"

"Hmph, the damned Divine Guard Army? They’re just a bunch of guys who got lucky taking the Royal Capital. They’ve long since been blinded by power and luxury. Their defeat is practically guaranteed when they face the Salvation Army’s next offensive!"

"This is great! Just fantastic!"

"If Father Sal knew about this, he would be overjoyed!"

"After all, this was something Father Sal always hoped for—to see the ruins of our Lord’s great Divine Hall in the Royal Capital."

"Yes! We can finally fulfill Father Sal’s lifelong wish in our lifetime."

"..."

The men surrounding Ed were all visibly excited.

Ed was as well, deep down.

But his feelings were inexplicably complex.

Recalling that night sixteen years ago, Ed still couldn’t let it go, even now.

’Saar went mad, and in a way, he died!’

’His madness was in breaking his vows to kill; his death was the collapse of the faith within him.’

Ed couldn’t help but ask himself.

’Was I the cause?’

’Or rather, if I hadn’t constantly been in Father Sal’s ear, whispering all those things, would he still have gone mad?’

But no matter what, given the dire situation at the Monastery back then, neither Ed nor Priest Saar really had a choice.

’Still, everything has finally turned out for the better!’

The chaos was now a thing of the past.

In the early days of their faction, they had Saar, the "mad Priest," a veteran Peak Transcendent.

The entire capital city of the Duchy was taken in just one year.

The leaders and cadres of those worthless gang factions were, almost without exception, all sent to their graves by Saar.

He called it "sending those Heretics to the Divine Kingdom to repent before the Lord."

For Ed, who was just an ordinary person with no Power back then, trying to control an entire capital city was undoubtedly fraught with countless problems.

But thankfully, Ed was clever enough.

He managed to win over some of the Low Tier Transcendent from the lower ranks of the defeated gangs.

He also offered them generous rewards.

It could be said that he barely managed to gain control of the entire capital city.

But that alone wasn’t enough.

Priest Saar’s deterrent Power was immense, but Saar was old, after all.

Based on the normal lifespan of a Tier Three Transcendent, Saar should have been able to live to be one hundred and fifty.

He should have had at least half his life left.

But unfortunately, why was Saar so powerful for a Tier Three?

The reason was simple: every time Saar acted, he used the Church’s Blood Burning Secret Technique.

This Blood Burning Secret Technique should have been exclusive to the Church’s Defender Knights, but for some reason, Saar, a mere Low Tier Elder Priest from a remote region, also knew it.

And because of this, as long as Saar used this Secret Technique, there were probably few, if any, Tier Three Peak existences in the world at that time who could be stronger than him.

But what was the cost?

Naturally, it caused Saar to age rapidly.

His body grew weaker with each passing day.

Sixteen years have passed, and the Saar of today is incredibly frail, needing support just to walk normally.

As for fighting on Ed’s behalf?

That was even more impossible.

But where there was a cost, there was also a reward.

The reward was that with Saar’s help, Ed rapidly completed the initial accumulation of resources needed to establish his faction.

It could be said that Ed confiscated all the Extraordinary materials within the capital city.

With these Extraordinary materials and using Priest Saar’s own extensive knowledge of the Extraordinary, it became much simpler to help the children of the Monastery—and even Ed himself—embark on the Path to the Extraordinary.

That’s right.

Although Ed was initially an ordinary person, he also possessed Extraordinary Talent.

Though, in the Elder Priest’s words, his talent wasn’t considered good.

But as long as one was willing to pour massive amounts of resources into him, creating a Tier Three Transcendent was certainly not a problem.