Deep in the night.

  Noah's figure flashed silently as he appeared In an area at the back of the villa where his subjugated Blessed was residing in.

  "Master."

  The Blessed kneeled towards him as Noah merely nodded as he voiced out.

  "They are all asleep?"

  "Yes, master. After a night of debauchery where they enjoyed themselves with the men and women of this past academy city, many of them have fallen to the folds of sleep."

  Noah's face was cold as he nodded and proceeded to call out the silver rank Tree Pixie.

  SHAA!

  The figure of the humanoid Winged creature shining green appeared as she put on a cute expression while looking at Noah!

  He gave but a single command to this powerful unit.

  "Use Deep Slumber and scatter the smoke everywhere in this villa. Keep scattering it as I don't want them to wake before things are ready."

  Noah said this as he gave multiple mana potions to the Tree Pixie.

  A skill was silently cast as a transparent smoke soundlessly swept through the expansive Villa!

  As it was cast, the silver blessed within the villa that had much less resistance compared to the rift bosses that even Noah had battled against just an hour prior- these Blessed could do nothing but fall into deeper slumbers where they would not wake until even after a whole minute passed.

  Noah went room to room as he glanced coldly within.

  He entered into rooms that had extravagant beds with scantily clad women strewn all around, and the enemy blessed reclining on these majestic beds with happy smiles on their faces!

  He even walked into a room where there was a female silver blessed and all around her in the bed were five bronze blessed men that looked tired and spent.

  He and the Subjugated Blessed moved with great speed as they collected all seven of the Silver enemy blessed and brought them to a singular location- a wide training hall in the basement of the Villa!

  All seven were sleeping soundly without a care in the world when Noah motioned and released another silver unit.

  This time it was the fearsome Horned Serpent that slithered onto the wide training hall of the villa, its enormous body wrapping around each of them and beginning to constrict tightly!

  None of them had any defenses up so they could not even raise their silver energy to protect themselves, Noah hearing the sounds of bones cracking as he merely looked on with cold eyes.

  Even his hands shimmered with a silver light as he moved personally to grasp their necks and shatter their vocal cords!

  When the effect of the deep slumber skill finished, the seven Blessed woke up in a fright as they felt the bodies horribly injured and mangled.

  ….!

  Their throats were not even able to utter a sound as Noah had gone ahead and shattered their vocal cords, the sounds they released seeing extremely gruesome!

  They looked like dead fish with extremely terrified eyes as they felt that death was near.

  In the depth of fear and pain, they looked in front of them to find a man with shimmering blue eyes.

  His eyes locked with each of them as he silently cast [Subjugate] over the disoriented and heavily injured blessed.

  RUMBLE!

  It did not take long before all seven were released from the constraints of the Horned Serpent, their mangled bodies falling into the ground as Noah snapped his fingers to call the Tree Pixie.

  The powerful unit cast [Resplendent Heal] multiple times over their bodies as a wondrous golden light washed over each of them

  "Ahhh…!"

  Distinct groans could be heard as the seven blessed were healed, feeling the pain of their bones realigning and their vocal folds reconstructing until they were as good as new!

  Their bodies got back to brimming with power as their eyes carried a tint of blue.

  They quickly kneel to the ground as they looked reverently towards the man with deep blue eyes, the same being who had just nearly shattered the muscles in their bodies, and they called out.

  "Master."

  On this day, Noah Eckert began expanding his influence as he slowly began to infiltrate the forces of the Dark Continent, beginning with 8 Blessed as he entirely dominated their minds and took over a huge Villa!

  After he subjugated the enemy blessed, he looked around the villa as he saw how these beings lived like kings. Thinking of the two girls still in the Elegant Pearl Inn, he made some arrangements by sending various commands to the blessed within the villa.

  "Send out all the beings you were playing with and clean up the villa. Make it into something that we can use as a base of operations."

  "Yes,master!"

  The seven blessed and the first one nodded as Noah didn't even bother addressing them with their names, simply giving them numbers similar to how they themselves gave their subjugated Cities numbers as the form of identification!

  The blessed were labeled one through eight, and Noah left the villa while beckoning to Number 1.

  SHAA!

  They flashed out of the villa in the dark of the night and soon appeared in the small room within the Inn while waking up the girls.

  He told them they were going somewhere much safer, where there would be protection from multiple silver blessed around them!

  The two girls were shocked, but they didn't dare underestimate Noah after all the things he had shown to them over the past few days.

  So Annalise and Rose simply nodded and followed silently in the night, going towards a Villa that had its strongest being under Noah's control. The attendants and weaker beings in the bronze rank would soon follow.

  When the dawn of the next day broke, everything around the city seemed to forge on with the new normal. Nobody within it realized that in the last few hours, of the 100 Silver Blessed from the Dark Continent that were stretched across the city, eight were now subjugated!

  A few hours passed as dawn broke, the resplendent rays of sunlight washing over City 8 as within a certain Villa, a base of operations had gradually formed in the night as Noah collected abundant information about the enemies he faced……