An Understated Dominance

“This is a joke, right, sir? I-it isn’t proper to promote him to an elder when he just joined the group!

“He’s right, Dr. Watkins. This is the first time there’s been an exception like this. That’s not normal!

“Sir, we know you favor talented individuals, but I’m afraid others might be unhappy with your decision.”

The elders and many disciples of the Stoneray Order were upset when they heard that Linden would promote Dustin to elder, which was only one rank below the assistant leader.

Disciples usually started as junior disciples before becoming intermediate disciples. Then, they would be promoted to senior disciples. As senior disciples, if they made any major contributions, they would be promoted to upper disciples.

Upper disciples were then categorized into three classes-upper third, upper second, and upper first. Only upper first disciples had a chance of being promoted to elder.

and become an elder would take at least a few decades. However, Dustin was now offered to take the top spot for free,

are more than worthy of becoming an

which was something even Linden couldn’t be sure he could do. That

fine if you take him in as an upper disciple, but I think appointing him as an elder is going overboard,” a

for centuries; there has

others into silence. After all, he was the one with

join us, you can become an elder and

I accept your offer. Thank you.” Dustin smiled. At

by Linden’s position than anything else. His position was very influential in the entire country. After all, no one would claim that they never

was easy to see why Stoneray Order ranked first in terms

We’ll start preparing a banquet to welcome our newest elder!”