I'm Really Not the Demon God's Lackey Chapter 281: A Knight Cannot Go Back On His Words

Within the ruins of Oswald’s Mansion.

“Damn it!”

A furious Joseph punched through a half-broken pillar, making it collapse and causing dust on the ground to fly up.

Although it appeared that Joseph had gained the upper hand right from the fight duel, Wilde hadn’t even turned up in his physical form and was merely using the sorcery of Flesh Puppet.

The few punches that Joseph threw appeared completely dominating, but they had no effect in truth. Attacks on the puppet—with the exception of curses—were ineffectual on the caster and were only useful for one to vent some displeasure.

But for a magician of Wilde’s standing, even a curse on the puppet would probably be largely useless and result in a backlash on the user.

Aside from that, Wilde’s parting words had severely affected Joseph’s mood and made him feel as though he had been led by the nose…

This meant that perhaps Wilde knew far more than himself with regards to the behind-the-scenes happening at Secret Rite Tower!

Such a realization caused Joseph to feel exceptionally frustrated.

Furthermore, Wilde’s words implied that this incident had something to do with the Council of Elders.

After all, Oswald, as one of the Great Radiant Knights, could only be restricted and supervised by the Council of Elders. Before the Council of Elders made their judgment, no one would suspect a Great Radiant Knight since they were the faces of Secret Rite Tower.

If he had really committed more heinous crimes than what had surfaced, for instance—as Wilde had mentioned—being a spy for the Path of the Flaming Sword, all this time while assuming such a sacred role, then it definitely had something to do with the Council of Elders.

In other words, the Council of Elders… might have really been infiltrated by a mole from the Path of the Flaming Sword!

This was an absolutely horrifying realization.

Once a mole managed to infiltrate into the highest echelons and gain power to control the entire organization, it basically meant that such an organization wo

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