David had not expected Baron Hornby to act this way. Regardless of what Baron Hornby had been thinking, such a display deserved recognition.
He controlled Lord Harlow's avatar and lightly patted Baron Hornby, signaling him to step back.
At that moment, the auras of the five Temple Knights in death seclusion reached their peak. Their instinctive bloodlust had turned their eyes crimson, as though blood was the only reason they remained alive.
The five Temple Knights in death seclusion charged toward Lord Harlow. Having remained in death seclusion for countless years, they radiated an aura of decay.
This was not David's first time seeing Temple Knights in death seclusion, but every time he saw them, he could not help feeling sorrow for the knight profession.
He was likely the only person in God's Great World who knew that the knight profession had originally not suffered from the emotional loss that afflicted fifth-grade Temple Knights, eventually turning them into battle machines that knew only slaughter.
If they cultivated according to the Perfect Knight Cultivation Method, a knight's physique and spirit would develop in balance throughout the cultivation process. Emotional loss would be impossible, let alone losing one's intelligence and becoming a killing machine.
David could not be certain whether this had been deliberately done by the gods or was a consequence of the cultivation method's imperfections, but it was certain that the temples suppressed the knight profession.
As David controlled Lord Harlow, he still had the leisure to split his attention and ponder these matters. It was clear that he felt no pressure from the siege of the five Temple Knights in death seclusion.
In fact, the instant the five Temple Knights in death seclusion launched their attack, David understood that they posed no threat whatsoever.
Leaving aside the fact that