Second World-Novel

Jack continued to check the officer overview. Peniel once mentioned officers with loyalty points above level 80 could be considered loyal subjects already. With the three highest leaders of the army loyal to him, he no longer worried about insubordination from the army.

He also checked the officers who had joined the rebellion. Armstrong had given him a written record of the list before he left Themelot. Half of these officers were still below 70 loyalty points, with some even below 60. But the other half was the same as Arther. Their loyalty points shot up to more than what they were before, with many nearing 80 loyalty points.

He used the Mass Pay function then. Afterward, he checked the half that had low loyalty points. Before, some officers increased very few loyalty points or even none at all after the mass pay. These officers were also the ones who joined the rebellion. Now, all these low loyalty officers increased their loyalty stat by around 3 to 4 points after the mass pay. This showed that they were now ready to accept Jack's rule.

Jack heaved a relieved breath. 'Let's hope this rebel issue is now behind us,' he thought. But he knew that to truly maintain these officers' loyalty was to show his fairness to the native population.

John's lawmaker players continued drafting regulations that help in that department. He called Thaergood to take a look at the ones that had been drafted. Together, they reviewed these laws to make sure that everything was in order.

Jack spent the day doing that as well as any issues Thaergood needed his involvement in. Thaergood was happy about this. Normally, Jack just pushed everything to the monthly schedule.

Thaergood also informed Jack that a representative from Palgrost came bearing a gift when Jack was out, accompanied by a message, "This is your agreed share." The gift was 360,000 gold coins which had been deposited to the kingdom coffer.

Jack was stunned. The agreement with Thelgrun was fifteen percent. This meant all the gold bull bosses Jack had killed in the Daedalus labyrinth had given Palgrost more than two million gold coins!

That labyrinth wonder building indeed provided wonders. But then again, the wonder only happened if he was the one entering it. He wondered if he should go to Palgrost and strike a better deal with Thelgrun. Maybe when he had free time, he still had lots of tasks to carry out at the moment.

He had also dealt with five affairs during the time he was at Darmos' hut until now. Out of five completed affairs, he got one perfect result. The perfect result gave him 95,000 merit points and 5 ruling powers. For the remaining four affairs, he got 230,000 merit points.

These merit points were not enough to level up his sovereign level. He needed around 27,000 more merit points. He could only be patient as he sent Jeanny the details on the new affairs.

John came back in the afternoon. Jack reminded him to not screw Themelot anymore from now. Jack wanted that city's stats to get to a prosperous state as soon as possible. John assured Jack that this was also his intention.

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The next day, Darmos just appeared inside the palace out of nowhere. Because no one knew him, he was considered an intruder. Two soldiers tried to drag him out.

Luckily, Jack was nearby. He hurriedly interfered before those two soldiers were hurt.

He then summoned Thaergood and Isabelle to announce to every soldier and officer in this capital that Darmos was to be allowed free reign. The old draconian was free to go wherever he wanted and everyone had to give Darmos proper respect.

The two advisors were confused about such privileged treatment of this unknown draconian, but they followed Jack's instructions.

In disguise, Jack took Darmos touring around the capital, which didn't impress Darmos much, until they entered Ellie's restaurant.

"Lad! The food here is better than your cooking!" Darmos exclaimed.

"Right? Let me introduce you to the cook. This is Ellie," Jack said. He was using a VIP room and called Ellie to join them.

Ellie introduced herself with a big smile. She was always happy when a customer was satisfied with her food.

Jack told her that if Darmos came by, she was to take Darmos' order and just put the tab at Jack's expense. Jack told her to just deduct the expense from Jack's weekly profit share. Ellie was also confused about such special treatment, but since Jack was willing to cover the cost, she had no problem with the arrangement.

Darmos assured Ellie that he would come often. After seeing how much the draconian had just eaten, Ellie couldn't help but felt anxious hearing that.

Jack asked if Darmos needed accompanying back to the palace. Darmos said he wanted to continue touring the capital by himself. For a hermit who had avoided civilization, Jack didn't know if this was encouraging or worrying. Jack told him to stay out of trouble.

Jack left him and went to the blacksmith workshop. He rent a special room and used the facility inside to etch all his regal outfits.

Afterward, he installed the Orb of Taranis onto his Themisphere King's Scale Mail.

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Themisphere King's Scale Mail, level: 70 (unique set medium armor: Themisphere Royal Battle Armor), embedded: Orb of Taranis (Unique-grade Armor orb)

Physical Defense: 518

Magical Defense: 450

Indestructible. Restriction: Human race, King of Themisphere

Endurance +25

Strength +22

Dark Resistance +30

When receiving a fatal blow, HP will remain at 1. Cooldown: 3 hours

Lightning resistance +50.

10% of lightning damage received is converted into HP instead.

5% chance to retaliate attacks with a lightning strike that dealt 80% lightning damage.

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After installing the orb, the chest armor's defenses increased. It also got a bunch of extra abilities.

Coming out of the blacksmith workshop, Jack went in the direction of the Order of Magi's hut. There, Jack challenged stage 79 and succeeded. He then entered stage 80. In stage 80 was one level 65 mythical, ten level 70 rare elites, and twenty-four level 75 special elites.

Unfortunately, he couldn't beat the stage. Though the mythical-grade enemy was five levels lower than him, he could only use his spells. He was unable to defeat that one mythical enemy.

He challenged stage 79 another nine times and collected 790 knowledge points. Combined with his stock, he had 2,214 knowledge points. It was still not enough to exchange for either the two spells, Lightning Mine or Fly, which cost 3,700 and 4,000 knowledge points respectively.

Peniel told him if he could level up his bloodline to level 9, he no longer needed the Fly spell. Jack asked her why. She answered that level 9 of the Divine Gold Dragon bloodline gave the skill, Gold Dragon Wings.

These wings had no cooldown. Jack could use it any time he wanted. The flight speed of these wings was even faster than the Fly spell. So, there was no sense to exchange the knowledge points the for Fly spell.