Chapter 231: Captain Appointment (Intermediate)

At the same time, the document suddenly radiated a faint glow.

Then, without warning, it split into two identical fragments.

One floated toward Max.

The other flew toward Lord Cassian.

Max caught his copy and examined it.

He quickly realized that the fragmented document itself was important.

As the Guild Master, he needed to retain his copy. However, if necessary, he could also entrust it to Danny.

The contract’s information would automatically be transmitted to anyone authorized by the Guild once they touched the fragment.

Lord Cassian stored his own copy as well before rising from his seat.

He extended his hand toward Max.

Max accepted it and shook it firmly.

"From now on, House Mireth will fully support you and the Demon Hunters Guild."

Max smiled.

"I won’t disappoint you."

...

Max and Lord Cassian chatted for a while before the former departed.

Lord Cassian mainly asked how Max had killed the Greater Demon, and Max did not hide most of the details from him.

Knowing that Max had taken advantage of the Holy Knight’s strength made Lord Cassian laugh out loud.

At the same time, he was astonished that Max had actually encountered a Holy Knight.

Lord Cassian himself expressed his desire to encounter a Holy Knight as well.

They were rare variants of Blade Saints, even more powerful than the latter when fighting against demons.

Truly, they were a class specifically created to combat the demon race.

Max also learned about the history of the Holy Knight from Lord Cassian—though Lord Cassian himself wasn’t entirely certain of it and had only heard the information through rumors.

Max obviously didn’t know about the history of the Holy Knight.

If he had, he wouldn’t have been surprised that they actually existed.

The library in his residence contained no records of the Holy Knight.

It was as if their very existence had been hidden even from the knowledge of their own kin.

The Holy Knight had been created through the blessing of a Divine Executor class—the fifth High Pontiff, who had lived decades ago.

When the fifth High Pontiff was approaching death, he had never once been able to use the ultimate ability of a Divine Executor who bore the Authority of Salvation.

Instead, he worked tirelessly to create an ability that would allow a Blade Saint who faithfully served the Church to wield a portion of that power.

Salvation’s Intercession.

It was a Divine Executor’s self-created art that allowed him to create five Holy Knights on the spot.

The Salvation’s Intercession art was a technique that could transfer a fragment of his Authority of Salvation into another person’s swordsmanship.

At the same time, those Holy Knights could pass down their class to future generations.

The only downside was that there were only five Holy Knights.

One of them had even reached the rank of Holy Paladin, an A-rank equivalent class.

As Max left House Mireth’s residence, he assumed that the main reason there wasn’t a single player with the Holy Knight class was primarily because the Church couldn’t trust the adventurers.

They weren’t born into the Church, and not every single one of them felt devoted to their God.

In the first place, players couldn’t simply express extreme devotion to a fictional entity.

Even those who entered the clergy of the Church were often driven by the similarity between the Church of Holy Salvation and the churches that existed in reality.

As Max proceeded toward his residence with Joel, he ruminated.

The Demon Hunters Guild needs the presence of a Holy Knight in the Expeditionary Corps.

It’s great that one of them will definitely join the Guild since Seraphine is already in the Guild, but the other four are crucial.

Especially the Holy Paladin.

For some reason, Max wanted to recruit every Holy Knight, including the Holy Paladin, and perhaps... someone with an S-rank version of that class.

He wanted them to join the Guild.

But in the end, he realized that the Holy Knights preferred passive defense and protecting individuals who suffered from demons rather than actively hunting them outside the Empire’s territory.

Unless he gave them a reason to join, such as Seraphine being one of the highest-ranking members of the clergy participating in the war against the demons, he couldn’t entice them at all.

...

Three days passed since the first world event emerged.

Max’s Guild remained at the top and continued to accumulate contribution points at twice the rate of everyone else combined every night.

However, Max’s individual contribution points hadn’t changed at all.

Clearly, he hadn’t participated in the event for the past three days.

Max’s attention was focused on the work Aethernova had thrown at him.

At the same time, he was waiting to receive a report about the appearance of a Greater Demon almost equal in strength to Varkhaz.

Every Greater Demon was dealt with by his commanders, which was precisely why his Guild remained at the top.

However, Lewis was soon about to overtake him, so Max needed to make a move as well.

While Max was waiting for Matilda’s intelligence report, he was also increasing his skills’ proficiency.

After his battle with Varkhaz, and with three days having passed since then, he had managed to increase all of his passive and active skills that were below Intermediate level to Intermediate level.

In other words, he could now summon up to 40 Radiant Knights at maximum.

Meanwhile, his Knight Slot Expansion had reached a capacity of 60 Radiant Knights.

Those who could not be summoned remained inside his Conclave Network, where they were trained by his thirteen main Radiant Knights.

Speaking of his thirteen main Radiant Knights, after his Captain Appointment skill reached Intermediate level, Max appointed three Radiant Knights to become his captains.

Each captain could command up to 15 Radiant Knights.

Max’s first thought for the second captain was naturally Fiora.

Surprisingly, Fiora rejected him.

Instead, she suggested that Hector become a captain for the Warrior Corps.

Max was stunned.

At the same time, he suddenly realized why Fiora had made the suggestion.

[Captain Appointment (Intermediate)]

Captains gain sufficient Authority to manage complete squads.

Maximum Captains: 4

Captain Command Capacity: 15 Knights each

Captain Benefits:

+10% HP

+10% Defense

+10% Attack Power

+20% Command Range

+10% Formation Discipline

Can issue tactical commands without direct caster supervision.]