My Weekly Refreshing Mentor Spirit

Over at His Lordship the Baron’s side.

Endless resentment and rage shrouded this blood-soaked Knight; originally, under the distortion of the Seventh Apostle’s authority of Fear, he would have become an Aberration—a sinister Knight with revenge and sadistic slaughter at his core—and spent the rest of his life madly hunting down those few veterans, all while providing the Seventh Apostle with the power of fear.

However, this process of Evil Ghost Transformation was cut short; his soul was fished up by Xue Dili, and then evolved.

But the anger and hatred from before death had not dissipated; the violent thoughts still churned in his mind.

Yet at this moment, he was shocked to discover that he was actually not dead at all, but sitting in his own City Guard Army office, covered in blood.

Could it be that everything before was just a dream?

The resentment and brutality from his dying moment instantly faded into mere confusion.

No, it can’t have been a dream, how could a dream be that vivid?

He could remember everything in the dream, and he could feel everything in it; it wasn’t a dream—he really had gone to a Resentful Spirit Island, and there, together with a few chance-met friends, gone through a sure-death adventure.

And now, he had successfully returned to his homeland, returned here, to the very place where he had just killed that Viscount’s family of three.

"I killed a noble’s family of three..." He laughed, laughing at himself; even though he had come back, it was all useless anyway.

He had killed a Demon family, and at the same time stained himself with the Demon’s blood, turning into a monster.

In the Empire, the law is useless against nobles; nobles can only be punished or rewarded personally by the royal house. So even if tens of thousands of bones were found beneath that Viscount’s estate, they would only be demoted in rank and exiled, and that was what enraged him.

So, he took matters into his own hands.

"I guess very soon the royal house will discover the dead Viscount, and my judgment will be at hand..." he murmured softly, having already prepared himself for this. Once a Knight is tainted by Demon blood, he too will gradually become another Demon.

His title, his family, indeed everything he had might be stripped away, and once he lost his noble status he would likely face retaliation beyond imagination.

In the Empire as it is now, which noble house isn’t intermarried and intertwined with the others?

But he had long since steeled himself for this, so bring it on!

"Creak..." The office door was pushed open, and the subordinate who had been cleaning the room cried out in surprise, "City Guard Officer, you’re finally back! A huge incident just happened in the Royal Capital lately, and you’ve become a celebrity!"

Baron: "?"

Seeing the puzzled expression on his superior’s face, this junior City Guard Soldier hurriedly explained.

It turned out that the Baron had been missing for a full four days. In those four days, the mangled corpses of the Viscount’s family had naturally been discovered; the Emperor flew into a Thunderbolt of rage and ordered a citywide manhunt for the Baron.

But in fact, the Emperor had wanted to secretly protect this Baron; the Emperor had actually planned to use this Viscount’s family to fish for bigger prey. He suspected that behind this Viscount there were more hidden hands undermining the Empire’s foundations, to the point of arranging an ambush to wipe out the entire family on their way into exile.

It was just that now the plan had been disrupted, so he could only adapt on the fly—but the outcome was good.

The Emperor had thoroughly investigated everyone involved up and down the chain; even ministers he himself had appointed were mixed up in this human-trafficking business, which pushed the Emperor’s fury to the limit.

With further investigation, he even discovered that the minister had secretly planted people at his side to feed him slow-acting poison.

The revelation blew the roof off; the entire Empire instantly plunged into a brutal and bloody political struggle.

In the end, the minister and all his associates were completely purged by the Emperor; heads rolled in the tens of thousands, all of them flayed and stuffed with daylilies, and finally burned in one great blaze.

As a result, a huge number of official posts and noble titles in the Royal Capital were left vacant, and he himself, as the fuse that ignited this political struggle, was actually posthumously promoted to a hereditary Count, and also awarded many medals of honor.

Baron: "??"

Who am I, where am I? Is this still the Empire?

He had only gone to Resentful Spirit Island for four days; how had everything turned into something he couldn’t even begin to understand?

While he was completely dumbfounded, the others were anything but.

Their boss had gone from City Guard Officer straight to Count; at the very least, they could now all share in the spoils. Even if they couldn’t become nobles, becoming minor Knights would do.

If that really didn’t work out, becoming a Knight’s Attendant was still a leap in social class for them.

And so, a Yellow Robe coronation scene was once again staged. When the Emperor learned that this fuse hadn’t died, but had instead gone off to lie low somewhere and survived, he checked the man’s entire life record and immediately felt this kid was interesting.

So he decided to hire him as the Princes’ Martial Arts instructor.

For the Baron, this was a windfall so big it almost knocked him senseless.

He had directly become a hereditary Count, and on top of that, part-time Martial Arts instructor to the Princes; this already went far beyond the limits of what he had ever dared imagine.

In the past, his lifelong ambition had been merely to become a Viscount.

And somewhere out of his sight, a scrap of paper was slowly blown up into the sky by the wind; on it was written:

"I took a look at your situation and found that as long as you endure these few days of political struggle, you’ll naturally soar to success, so there doesn’t seem to be much I can give you. I’ll give you a set of steam engine blueprints; if you feel this technology is worth being electrified in your country...

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