The knight and the scheme

When Dante turned twenty there existed moving castles made with advanced magic and manpower that were now a staple of the empire. These giant castles were charged right into battle using holes in the castle to shoot magic while injured soldiers were recovered and rested in the castle.

The empire had also conquered even more and controlled a fifth of the north continent. They were seen as one of the strongest in the north continent. The massive machines were being driven forward by the power of massive amounts of war slaves that had poison devises on them a hat would kill them at the press of a button.

The working environment was hell for the peasants but they couldn't resist due to the power of the knights.

While this was happening Dante was slowly but surely putting doubts in the soldiers and knights about the king. He had begun to take over the kingdom.

He had also begun to search for any child that was born this year because the beta testers would be reincarnated this year. But he sadly didn't find any. He had also begun to make his image that of someone who cares for the people.

The constant wars had made him stronger but it wasn't helping his sanity and mental health. He had begun to have more extreme emotions but they could be ignored.

He had also been given the title of the emperor's right hand and listened only to the emperor. This gave him more power, having this position gave him much more freedom so he started getting a hobby. He had two hobby's right now which was collecting rare items and painting.

His painting was quite unique and had a lot of details due to his using dexterity boosts when painting. The paintings were extremely weird compared to the other artworks and showed cities made of metal reaching the skies.

These paintings were given as gifts and were mostly used to find the reincarnated because they would react to these paintings of famous places on earth.

When he turned twenty-two a giant revolution had begun made of both knights and peasants. When this revolution was about to end in blood he killed the emperor and said it was for the better of the people.

He had already made his image of one who did everything for the people so he easily became the new emperor.

The first thing he did was give the peasants new technology like plant rotation and lowered the taxes. This was not because of the good of his heart and was only to improve efficiency and stop future revolutions.

He kept the head of the emperor as a trophy and collector's item. He then created a better education system. He had also spread legends of his battles and his greatness and filled the schools with propaganda like him being the incarnation of God.

He then spread the method of making primitive conveyor belts to increase the output of peasants. The slaves on the other hand were living even worse life. They were constantly pulling and if they stopped they would be shocked by magic. They ate nutritious goop and when they were about to collapse from exhaustion were healed by magic.

In the "history" book that he had altered to the extreme, these slaves were evil and tried to kill people without reason and we're branded as barbarians. People believed in this with this being the first history book and his ideal image.

When he turned twenty-five he woke up in the place he met God. So he asked.

"Why have I been summoned here or did I die in my sleep."

"No I only summoned you because we want to inform you that we will change the world again."

"So what are the changes."

"We have chosen to summon a demon king on the middle continent that will be a challenge for the beta testers and normal reincarnated."

"So why did you inform me of this."

"We have informed you of this because we don't want you to interfere with the middle continent until they have killed the demon king."

"Ok anything more you need to inform me about."

"No."

"Then can I ask some questions?"

"I don't see any problems with that."

"How have the other continents been affected by these new changes."

"The other continents don't have as strong dungeons as yours due to them not having a tester but now that the beta testers have been born the dungeons have gotten about the same strength as yours."

"Ok then will you just send me back now."

As he said so he felt as if he was in his normal body and started to speed up the developments he had done for the reincarnated.