Chapter 52: Benetnash

In my office, alone, two days before the banquet.

Three days  have already passed after the invitation and Chrysaor compiled all of the files, background and basic ability rundown of all the prospects that he recommended to me. Remember that the teachers of the Academy are gargantuan in numbers because of the huge amount of Student that requires huge amount of rooms that then requires huge amounts of teachers.

Plus Chrysaor went above and beyond my order and even those retired teacher that didn't have the chance to shine in the military because their is really no major war in the time of my absence, many of them, or no, actually majority of them are recommend by him, after all my requirements is experienced and is always calm, of course that includes individual power too.

That's why those people that are already considerably old will really fit the bill, that's why I am buried with tons of papers in front of my table this past few days.

Nevertheless, even though the teaching force of Valentine have both quality and quantity, this number is still too much and is quite unexpected. I already prepared myself to do some paperworks but I never expected that I will spend two days reading backgrounds of teachers all day all night, of course I love reading books as an entertainment but who would want to read "He or she was born at a very young age"every single time you turn a page and go to the next paper.

Furthermore, I will only go out of my office for breakfast, lunch and dinner  and I will be sleeping in my office because I find it a pain to go to the bedroom, skipping  bedtime with my wives, so I have a maid "service" me every night and tend to my carnal needs everytime before I sleep.

This papers even forced me to do something behind the backs of my wives... No, that's actually on me, but in any case, because of this, I decided that I will finish all of this paper this day, and tomorrow (if necessary), actually their is only one large pile of paper about three feet in height remaining, so I will be using my special body constitution to not eat, sleep and other things to finish this mountain.

This characteristics are supposed to be a trademark of the Valentine Royal Family but I am using it by acting like a fucking corporate slave. But then again, I am someone who emphasizes information and will rather sit all day until my ass hurts reading this papers of detailed profile reports rather than to blindly recruit people, of course even though this people are just the lid for the true nature of my unit (that of an intel organization), I still want them to be a force to reckon with.

That's still my face, so if I randomly picked sissy people then I will be slapping myself in the face.

Thinking so, I continued reading the tons of tons of papers without eating or sleep and surprisingly, cutting off the rest time I am using, I actually became more efficient and finished the whole mountain of paper in just half a day, because I already eliminated the people who are not worthy of my time and choose the top ten that can potentially become my subordinate, I already proceeded in the another round of elimination in the top 10.

The first batch to be slashed out are those that didn't made the top 10, those people are those either used their family background as a lineage of educators to gain a position and those who have abilities that didn't met my standards, this two types of teachers got slashed out immediately and their profiles are separated than the top 10.

This top ten are those who are really in my standards and I only needed two, why? Well because the banquet only allow two people to accompany  the ruler, after all subordinates are quite intense if it comes to how they respect their master, and even Ophiuchus who is acting like my friend can cause problems if it really so happens that push will come to shove.

And I can't also really recruit all of them because their is no necessity in man power right now, and I will just make my palace congested with freeloaders and I don't want that.

The first one can be recruited quite easily and I am confident of this statement. Her name is Benetnash, Female, a Devil-Elf hybrid. Now now, don't look at me like I'm a trash because of her being a woman and because she's a hybrid between a Devil and an Elf because no, she's not my and Vanir's daughter.

She can be said to be my half  disciple, or a fourth given the time that I thought her how to control her powers is just a few years, her powers is really powerful and terrifying to say the least that she, even as a wielder of the power sometimes cannot control it.

She have a bloodline magic named Eldritch, as its name suggests it lets the wielder to transform into an eldritch being, she can transform into a mass of pulsating and twisting flesh with multiple drooling mouths and an enormous amount of eyes, she have a very hard time controlling this mad aspects of her power and she is always close to swallowing up a whole village if its not for Vanir and me.

She personally came to me so that she can control her powers and not cause her anguish, so I trained her for three or four years and she became someone who can masterfully control her magic in exchange of her being stupid in other magic except her bloodline magic like Guinevere, but because she is so powerful, she made up of this weakness with the force of sheer power.

So I do know how strong she is, though she is not really a genius because of her having difficulties to control her power, then again, talent is not really the main point of how a person is worth.

Thinking of this, I went up and immediately ordered my clerk to clean up the mountain of documents in my office, put them on memorial containers seal them up for information security purposes and store them in the document storage room as I walked out of my office and immediately went towards the exit of my palace, I don't have to worry about them being caught off guard because I suddenly appeared in front of them.

Because Chrysaor is someone with a lot of experience, he immediately have a good prediction of the ten that I will be choosing from and all of them were informed that they should be prepared at any time to be recruited by his master (me), so I don't need to send anyone to inform them about the matter.

Of course I have to be the one to say that I will be tossing them in front of the Seven Rulers as their first mission, if the two of them disagreed because of that matter, then I will just choose from the remaining ones until I found people that is not afraid.

Anyway, because I am still quite far to the Academy and I don't feel like flying right now, let me give you a little rundown of the second prospect, he is also a teacher, named Nyx, male, from the human race. Yes, a human. Don't look at my Kingdom as a Kingdom who rejects and have announced its hostility against humanity.

After all, Valentine is an economic giant and by being an economic giant means having many trade and business partners and because humans takes up a huge amount of the population of the world, that also means that Valentine have many human Kingdoms that have trading deals with, of course humans are also free to live in our Kingdom, though being successful is another thing because their competitors are ninety year old in average that acts like a teenager with tons of experience, their academic knowledge will atleast become more broad.

So its not really rare to see teachers and humans with other professions to be in Valentine.

My sister hates Tyrfing, she even announced it two hundred years ago. But that doesn't mean she hates all humans.

Going back to the main topic, Nyx, named after the goddess of night, and as his name also suggests, he have a very disturbing power, of course in a different sense than Benetnash.

He have Bloodline Magic called Necromancy, and if you're not a fucking idiot you should already know that Necromancy is the art of reviving the dead and make them undead, so its technically not reviving, but in any case, in short terms he is a necromancer.

Yes, I know it's quite cliche and is boring if you really put it bluntly. After all, a bunch of mindless zombies is quite lackluster right? Of course not.

It depends on how the person will use his power, the most disturbing way is to use the corpse of freshly killed soldiers in a war and raise them as undead and  make them wreak havoc into the enemy lines, that's what I mean by distrubing.

Its not the thought that the undead will change the tide of the battle, just the thought of zombies who have their brain fluids dripping from their head, their fresh blood leaving trails of crimson red in their every step and their bones poking out of their limbs and many more.

That's what is disturbing, if you really imagined it.

Or even if he didn't do that, the undead can just defend the nation, a bunch of tireless soldiers that will not cease in guarding the fortresses of our Kingdom will give the living soldiers breathing room and more time to rest, and their is also the chance that he will capture an intact specimen of a powerful being making it his personal bodyguard or something.

And if I really want to push it, he can also create butlers and maids, but I don't need them and I like the living ones better so let's get past that.

Anyway, surely, if someone just became creative then necromancy is more useful and more terrifying that one can think.

Obviously, I want to recruit him because of those reasons.

As I was thinking of that I finally saw the gate of the Academy, and I looked at the teaching force board again and already didn't saw the name "Hebi Tsukaiza" in it, really, how the hell did Ophiuchus became a principal?

As I was thinking of that, I saw a lady in a black and white teacher's uniform. She have a little pointed ears, not so pointed like the elves but still pointed not like humans and devils nonetheless. She have a blonde hair that was tied in a bun and her yellow eyes is being covered by a round shaped prescription glasses, she have a fairly well proportioned body and her legs is moving whilst her waist is swaying sensually.

In her back is a man with black overcoat that have a hood covering his head, he is slouching and his face is facing the ground, yet, strangely enough he didn't bumped into the back of the woman, making me arrive to the conclusion that he is already used in walking like that.

He is more gloomy than Arachne plus his hands is hanging and swaying like he is a zombie.

Okay, that's quite creepy, but anyway, the woman in front is obviously Benetnash and the man in the back is Nyx.

I looked at Benetnash first as I stared at her and scanned her body up and down, her fitted uniform outlines her body perfectly, and damn, she's smoking hot.

"Sensei, look up."

I got out of my trance and found myself looking at her chest area, I immediately looked away out of her breast and looked at her eyes and smiled.

"Hello Benet."