Monster Lord: The Goblin Offers the Saintess to Me at the Start

Seeing that Sivis refused, the two knights were taken aback. They had wanted to persuade him again, but when they saw the lord's serious expression, they quickly shut their mouths — they had a vague feeling that continuing to argue would bring them bad luck.

Sivis injected another burst of the power of holy light into Reina, then handed her over to the Stone Demon and the Goblin leader by his side: "You two stop chasing the Blood Servant for now. Take care of her. If anything happens to my maid, you'll pay with your lives."

His tone was cold.

It wasn't that he doubted the loyalty of the monsters, but rather that he was worried they wouldn't take the safety of humans seriously. So he made a serious warning.

The Stone Demon and the Goblin immediately adopted a solemn posture and vowed: "Yes, master! We will fight to the death to protect Miss Reina!"

Seeing them swear an oath, Sivis finally prepared to leave.

He felt somewhat relieved. He had a bit of luck — when he had come into contact with the Knight Order's breakout personnel earlier, he saw that they were almost finished with their escape, so he had set up tracking insects in advance.

At this moment, with a slight sensing, Sivis was able to see a thin thread of energy pointing far away — that was exactly where the escaping Knight Order and the priests were. The cleric who controlled Dragon-related Fossils was also among them!

Everything was ready. Sivis was about to move out when he suddenly noticed a figure standing beside him — it was Vikalina, who had already awakened without him knowing.

"Didn't you want to rest a little longer?" Sivis said, his tone carrying a hint of concern. He knew that the female knight's body and willpower were already on the verge of breaking down, completely exhausted.

Vikalina shook her head firmly. "I'm fine. And I did rest a little already."

"Are you confused about the recovery speed of a Silver-ranked powerhouse?"

The woman was surprisingly relaxed and said it with a joke.

Sivis took a close look and noticed that after her previous nap, Vikalina's condition had improved a lot.

He was about to refuse again, but then he heard the female knight say seriously, "It would be better if I went with you."

"The people breaking out don't know your story. They probably won't trust you much. If you want to buy resources from them, they might not sell to you. Right now, it's more important to take care of Vikalina's health."

"She's really weak. We can't afford to be polite here. I didn't get seriously hurt. I'm just really tired. I'm fine now."

Vikalina spoke with real sincerity.

Sivis couldn't refuse any further.

He felt touched. "Okay, then we'll go together."

Sivis had an unexpected sense of security.

He knew that after this incident in Minnet City, he would forever gain the loyalty of a female knight.

Even as a Monster Lord, the road ahead would be hard, but he felt that having someone by his side... this feeling... was really good.

After a few words, the two of them prepared to leave. But before they could even leave the factory base, they saw a corpse suddenly burst into a roaring fire — the flames were extremely pure and red, like some kind of symbol. Then, a beam of light shot straight into the sky.

In the night sky, it spread out with thousands of brilliant lights.

"Wait, this...?" Sivis was stunned. He had a strange feeling that the flames looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen them.

Two members of the Knight Order looked at it and realized that the flames were coming from Sylar's body.

They didn't have the bloodline of the Divine Punishment Knight Order like Sheira, so they didn't know what the flames meant. They didn't dare to speak up, so they looked at Vikalina, sending her a desperate look.

The female knight naturally understood. This flame should be a signal created by the Divine Punishment Knight Order when their descendants died.

She wasn't worried. In Sivis's case, the Divine Punishment Knight Order wouldn't hurt him!!

Vikalina believed this firmly.

She just mentioned it in a calm way. "There was some kind of accident here earlier,"

Vikalina told the whole story — how Sylar had revealed his identity as a Blood Servant, attacked that Silver-ranked cleric, and nearly caused the defense line to break. She also mentioned that the man had the bloodline of the Divine Punishment Knight Order, and that he had cursed and ranted as he was dying.

However...

Vikalina spoke in a light tone.

"Your territory won't be affected by this."

"Based on your character, you'll only become friends with the Divine Punishment Knights."

Sivis's face twitched slightly.

No impact??

Bullshit!!

That's why the flames looked so familiar to me??

It was the mark of those lunatics!

"Divine Punishment Knight Order."

"Why does everything go wrong one after another?!"

Sivis felt extremely helpless in his heart.

He knew about this kind of existence — the Divine Punishment Knights were a bunch of madmen created by combining demon power.

They followed the Church's doctrines, but it wasn't exactly following them. It was more like they had a strict order of killing.

The Divine Punishment Knights treated every single moral law the Church used to guide people toward goodness as a law of death. Any living being that broke even one of those rules was considered a target for execution.

Even someone who was a moral paragon by common standards might have a few small flaws.

And when they encountered these knights, that was it — no way out.

What was more terrifying was that sometimes the Divine Punishment Knights would decide whether an entire area was guilty or not.

Once they considered a place guilty, no matter how noble the individual was, there was no way to escape the massacre.

Sivis didn't need to think twice to know that the situation he was in was definitely wrong!

A large area centered around Minnet City had first lost a Saint, then had a blood plague after the Radiant Great Array was set up, and now there was the death of someone with the bloodline of the Divine Punishment Knight Order.

That was a solid case for being considered guilty!

And to make things worse, Sivis had a Monster Domain — a massive crime that was impossible to explain away.

When he upgraded his territory to a settlement, he could move the core of his territory, but only within a limited range. He couldn't just escape all the way to a place far away from Minnet City.

That meant he was probably going to face the wrath of these lunatics directly.

Even more terrifying was the fact that the Divine Punishment Knights themselves had demon blood in them, making them fearless in battle. And their insane, bloodthirsty nature only made their fighting power even more terrifying.

Sivis thought and thought, but he had no idea how to deal with it — the current fighting strength of his territory was nowhere near enough to handle an attack from these madmen.

"Not this is the end?" Sivis was extremely frustrated.

It wasn't completely over. According to his previous game knowledge and Sivis's understanding of the Divine Punishment Knight Order, they wouldn't go to such extremes just because of the death of a single bloodline descendant — this Knight Order had already been sealed away by the Church in the first place.

Right now, they would only send a group of Silver-Rank knights first.

These knights were mostly around Silver 5 to 6 rank, at most 7 to 8 rank.

Being of the same Silver-tier, Sivis's perfected body was enough to deal with them.

If he could find some Silver-Rank monsters strong enough to join his territory, and with the enhancement of "Summon Guardian," it wasn't impossible to eliminate the vanguard of the Divine Punishment Knight Order.

But even killing the vanguard wouldn't help much.

These madmen wouldn't see Sivis's territory as their top target at first, and wouldn't send all their forces right away.

But once their vanguard failed, they would soon launch a far more crazy and desperate counterattack!

That meant if Sivis's territory could resist the Divine Punishment Knights, it would only signal more knights to be awakened and sent to attack him.

Even if Sivis could kill all these enemies, that wouldn't be a victory — under the Divine Punishment Knight Order's sensing mechanism, even more knights would be awakened, leading to an endless loop!

However, the Gold-Rank knights were sealed by multiple layers of enchantments and wouldn't awaken so easily.

Theoretically, Sivis would have some time to breathe after dealing with the Silver-Rank knights...

But these Silver-Rank enemies weren't easy to deal with at all!

The Divine Punishment Knight Order had incredibly strong individual combat abilities, and most of them were Silver 5 or higher.

The number of forces they could send against Sivis would be hundreds — at least!

Yes!

Hundreds of Silver 5-rank units!

That was an absurd amount of combat power!

Sivis's Silver-rank strength was obtained by trickery, through the transformation of Bronze-Rank monsters.

And through the system, he could only collect a few Silver monsters at once.

To gather hundreds of Silver 4-rank units and use "Summon Guardian" to reinforce them in order to fight the Knight Order, it would take at least a year or more!

That was assuming the Divine Punishment Knights wouldn't send too many forces at once against Sivis's territory.

If they launched a full attack, they could mobilize thousands or even nearly ten thousand Silver-Rank warriors!

Even though Sivis could fight and defeat a single knight, what about the rest?

Not to mention that these killing machines usually required monsters at least one or two ranks higher to be defeated in a direct fight.

Even though Sivis had seen his share of big storms and tough fights, he was starting to crack under the pressure — this was absolutely not a small problem as Vikalina had said, but a huge, impossible obstacle.

The only thing he could be thankful for was that the Divine Punishment Knight Order wouldn't attack his territory right away, giving him some time to delay.

Besides, even if Sivis couldn't immediately break through to Gold-Rank, every bit of strength he gained would make the monsters found by the "Search for Monster" function stronger.

The system's "Search for Monster" function could keep accumulating forever.

Sivis still had a chance to find a group of monsters above Silver 5.

With the enhancement of his exclusive skills, he could still put up a fight.

In the early stage, the Divine Punishment Knights would judge every area near Minnet City, so the number of troops sent to Sivis's territory would definitely be small.

Plus, he had just acquired the talent "Spiritual Fusion."

That was Sivis's biggest secret weapon — he could definitely use Saint Werner to level up several small stages in just a couple of weeks, maybe even push toward Gold-Rank within a month or so.

But just thinking about it, Sivis couldn't help but worry about his lower body — would it get too worn out later?

And whether Werner's body could even handle it.

This Saint of Light had started off with a commoner's body, after all.