The Plan

Chairman Ebb convened another meeting. This time, he had no choice but to do so. If he did not step in to mediate, this top noble alliance might well fall apart.

It was the same meeting room and the same projections of the lords, but the atmosphere was vastly different from the previous meeting.

The loss of a Level 5 Temple Knight and the murder of a top noble lord were two entirely different matters, especially within the alliance.

The five top noble families that had participated in the attack on Duke Arthur could no longer sit still. They were constantly redeploying their forces, not only hiding their Level 5 Temple Knights' true bodies, but also scattering their families' high-ranking knights across various locations.

This was merely a precaution against assassination attempts by Duke Arthur. Yet no matter how thorough their defenses were, they could not remain on guard forever. A family's Level 5 Temple Knight could not stay hidden indefinitely.

Based on the analysis of the attack on the Baruch Family, even the energy avatars of Level 5 Temple Knights were unsafe, because Duke Arthur had first destroyed Lord Marcus's energy avatar.

If Duke Arthur also targeted the energy avatars of the five top noble families' Level 5 Temple Knights, how were those five families supposed to cope in the future?

And it had been Chairman Ebb's decision that led the five top noble families to send Level 5 Temple Knights to attack Duke Arthur. Naturally, Chairman Ebb now had to resolve the consequences.

Chairman Ebb looked at the projections of the lords in the meeting room. He knew that if he mishandled this incident, his prestige would suffer greatly.

More importantly, once Duke Arthur learned the full details of the incident, Chairman Ebb himself would become one of