Over the course of ten days, Valient summoned the great nobles several times, received the provincial governors and several veteran officials, and finally finalized the list of the Twelve Ministers.
Lakil was appointed Palace Steward.
At the mention of that name, Velin looked surprised, but upon further thought, it seemed perfectly natural.
This High-tier Soul Intent swordsman of common birth was a beneficiary of Ilia Kingdom's military merit system and someone deeply loathed by the nobles.
At the age of twenty, he entered the Kingdom's Second Warrior Academy on the strength of his talent.
After graduating from the Kingdom's Second Warrior Academy, he served in the Royal Palace Eastern Guard for three years before being transferred to the Royal Palace Guard. Seven years later, he became a captain in the guard, commanding nine guardsmen.
Over the following forty years, his position barely changed, though his strength steadily improved.
After Isandor Silvis, the twenty-fourth king of Ilia Kingdom, ascended the throne and launched a war against the Graylight Wasteland, Lakil—who had served fifty years in the Royal Palace Guard—was transferred to serve as a Squadron Leader in the Fourth Squadron of the Third Regiment, Sixth Battalion, Second Army, Fifth Legion.
Thanks to his loyalty, within half a year of the war's outbreak, he was transferred to the Fifth Regiment of the Third Battalion, First Army, Seventh Legion as Deputy Captain, then promoted to captain in May of the following year.
When the thirteen-year war ended, Lakil was already the battalion commander of the Fifth Battalion, Second Army, Fourteenth Legion, formally entering the ranks of generals.
Over the next hundred and thirty years, he successively served as deputy legion commander, commander of the Saint Lun Province City Defense Army, general of the Eastern Guard, general of the Western Guard, general of the