29 ORDER OF DOMINION VIII

A week later.

Golden Commander Stephon watched the raucous commotion happening right in front of him with a smile on his face that was now much ruddier and lively. Golden Commander Stephon's aura even though suppressed was suffocating and it was now similar to those of experts at the HEAVENLY RULER rank.

After his encounter with Fritz, Golden Commander Stephon had a flash of inspiration that could open a brand new door to the next cultivation rank, which he was able to successfully grasp and enter through that door; a door from the HEAVENLY KING rank to the HEAVENLY RULER rank.

Right now he was only a single step away from the Overlords of Gaia and whether he could reach their stage of power or not, fate would decide. Despite his increase in power and status he refused to be promoted and chose to continue with his job as a Supervisor. 

He shook his head helplessly at the sight of hundreds of people from all the races gathering at the human's entry checkpoint into Iron Haul city. Looking at the reason so as to why all these people rushed here, he tacitly decided not to chase them away.

His eyes landed on an entourage of six people, three men and two ladies and lastly the young girl holding a small silver fox. They had caramel coloured skin synonymous of the Memnon race that they hailed from and had shredded physiques exuding torrential might that restricted anyone from coming ten meters close to them.

Golden Commander Stephon knew all of them as they were a part of a famed group working strictly under the Martial Emperor, the Twelve Protectors. His eyes shrank in fear when his gaze landed on the woman walking side by side with the young girl.

'The First Protector!' inwardly shrieked Golden Commander Stephon.

'What is this Demoness doing here?' thought the Golden Commander as his mind raced only for his eyes to land on the girl she was with, 'Is she protecting that little lass? Isn't she just one of Gaia's top ten famed beautiful women. Who is she really?'

While he was drawn into his own thoughts the commotion caused by the entourages arrival increased tremendously.

"Look! There she is, the second on the top ten Heavenly Beauties list."

"Goddess…Goddess Mira look at me. Just one look and I promise I would switch genders for you."

"Look at those splendid legs and thick thighs if only I could…"

"If only you could do what? Heh with your face how dare you… Cover your frog face before your disgust Goddess Mira."

The scene in front of the checking point was chaotic and loud as the crowd threw praises at the young lady leading the First Protector and others before coming to a halt in front of Golden Commander Stephon. 

Moments later the group entered Iron Haul city, the part of the city that was ruled by humans.

"Princess given your descriptions, it is highly probable that the person you are looking for is right here in Iron Haul city according to the intelligence we gained from our sources here and also there is a Sweet Rose restaurant located here too" explained the First Protector.

Whilst rubbing the cute ferret fox in her arms, "Mm! Let's go directly to it then."

…

Meanwhile Fritz and his group gathered inside Purple Moon Hotel's secret Meeting Hall for the second gathering of the ORDER OF DOMINION after their first last week. 

Fritz spoke, "Vlad that's enough."

They had all arrived here five minutes earlier but at that time instead of commencing the meeting Vlad stopped them in their tracks, before he took out a clean white cloth and proceeded to clean the table and chairs even though it was already squeaky clean.

Vlad gave the table one last look before nodding his head in satisfaction and moved towards the dustbin as he threw in it the white cloth and his black latex gloves which were then replaced by new ones. The rest of the group proceeded to take their seats.

"Report!" ordered Fritz with his back resting leisurely on his comfortable throne.

The first to speak out was Vlad, "Your Highness, my mission was to gather information on all GRADE 3 powers in Gaia and the mission has been successful completed. In my hand is all the information regarding them." Vlad handed out an Information Jade storing all the information Vlad had collected.

All the organizations or powers in Gaia had a strict hierarchy in which according to the STATUS, MILITARY POWER, INFLUENCE and WEALTH they possess are distributed according to. From the lowest to the highest they were GRADE FIVE-ONE.

Fritz nodded his head and then gestured to Echo to begin hers. Echo's monotone voice rang," Your Highness, I was responsible for gathering information regarding all the dungeons producing extremely rare and useful minerals and or skill runes."

Just like Vlad she too gave Fritz an Information Jade.

"Young Master I have successfully managed to compile a list consisting of ten extremely skilled Blacksmiths who have being reached a bottleneck and are unable to break through to become DIVINE grade blacksmiths but.. I have also failed to meet any of them" reported Gindal.

Fritz calmly listened to all the reports from his subordinates, he rubbed the ring on his finger and adopted a contemplative expression when he heard Gindal's report. This was what he expected to happen regarding the second part of Gindal's mission due to his rather 'bad' reputation.

"That was expected. Gindal, after the meeting hand that list to Jesse" said Fritz.

Out of all the people here only Ian didn't have a mission so the last person to talk was Jesse. As usual Jesse still wore her infectious sweet smile, "Master, the mission bestowed to me has being successfully completed. Here are all the business permits, licenses and deeds."

Fritz lightly smiled," Good job everyone!"

Hearing his praise, they all inwardly rejoiced. Every individual had people they revered, worshipped and looked up to, in this case the group of Jesse all had one individual they secretly looked up to, Fritz. Therefore, receiving his praise to them was similar to receiving his acknowledgment thus their excitement.

They unconsciously looked at Ian gloatingly, their eyes staring mockingly at him. Seeing their actions Ian mocked, "At the end of the day I am more good looking than all of you combined."

His words triggered them, as they fell from victory to defeat in an instant.

Gindal barked," Shameless" whilst Vlad and Echo harrumphed coldly at him. Jesse pouted unhappily at Ian's response as this wasn't the reaction they expected from him.

Fritz speechlessly stared at Ian for a few moments refusing to believe that someone so young could be so thick-skinned. 

"Haha. Ever since you guys had being affiliated with the ORDER OF DOMINION there has being something that I wanted to do and had being holding off. With me as the Leader there can only be five people serving directly under me and today I am going to choose them."

They were all incredibly excited by his words as well as frightened. Each one of them wondering whether or not they would be selected.

He continued, "I hereby declare Vlad Crimson, Jesse Bloodstone and Ian Galadher as members of the [FIVE THRONES OF DOMINATION]."

Regarding Ian, Fritz debated whether or not to grant him the title but his favourability towards his awakened talent made him chose otherwise. 

Fritz even felt that Ian's talented was too broken even he couldn't help but complain a little bit.

"This title is not eternal and can easily be stripped away from you so be careful and cherish it as for you Gindal and Echo it will be up to you whether or not you can get one. The meeting will end here see you two days later."

Fritz rose from his throne and proceeded to leave the hall as he left them to deal with their emotions and to read through what the titles benefits were since they probably have received notifications about it. Echo seemed to want to say something but Fritz brushed her off.

[TITLE; FIVE THRONES OF DOMINATION]

[EFFECT 1: SIGIL OF DOMINATION]: A runic golden sun tattoo possessing a sliver of the Dominators Authority that could be used by his throne bearers to subjugate and recruit people in the Dominators stead, functioning similar to [Dominators Deification]. Can only be seen by the Dominator and his subordinates. 

[EFFECT 2: DOMINATORS BESTOWAL]: A gift from the Dominator to his throne bearers, the ability to utilise any of the Dominators attributes dependent on which attribute the throne bearer lacks. 

[EFFECT 3: DOMINATORS AVATAR]: An ability that summons an avatar possessing ten percent of the Dominators strength to fight for them or to merge with thus increasing their combat power.

[EFFECT 4: INSTANTANEOUS REACH]: An ability allowing the transfer of goods and resources between the Dominator and his throne bearers as long as they are within the same continent. {UPGRADABLE}

[VIRTUAL MEETING]: A virtual landscape that can draw the consciousness of all those bearing the SIGIL OF DOMINATION for meetings regardless of the distance. Has high soul energy consumption that has to be supplied by the DOMINATOR.

The last part was only visible to Fritz. Having designated his throne bearers, he walked out of the Meeting Hall heading towards Jesse's restaurant after receiving a VIP membership card from her. The next meeting was set for two days later.

When he walked out of the hall the only thing he heard were three synchronised shrieks, "Fuck!"

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