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    “I love this! Ahahaha!”

    Olivia really liked the optical camouflage battle suit.

    I was briefly disappointed by the obvious appearance of a used product.

    He had developed a taste for the thrill of activating transparency and melting into the air to move stealthily and quickly, and was now enjoying the game of surprising the party.

    Phew!

    “I’m sorry.”

    “Oh, really! Liv!”

    The game was to turn your head when you heard the sound of the wind, and then have the animal poke your side or shoulder and run away from you.

    This time the scapegoat is Jeong Su-jin.

    In fact, Olivia’s favorite target to react to the most was Sarah, but when she was so startled that she ended up putting up a barrier around herself, she had no choice but to change her target.

    Thanks to this, the group has now entered training to detect the presence of an opponent wearing an optical camouflage combat uniform out of nowhere.

    Although I was teaching them martial arts, they didn’t have enough internal energy to always be able to display their skills, so if you think of it as training, it wasn’t a bad method.

    Since the optical camouflage combat uniform was a used product, there were many areas where it was lacking in stealth, but if you focused, it wasn’t that difficult to detect.

    Because Olivia moves so quickly when she personifies, it’s not often that we’re able to successfully catch her.

    After enjoying it for a while, Olivia returned the battle uniform to me with shining eyes.

    “This! Make sure to make it perfect! Or just repair it!”

    “Okay.”

    It seemed like the first combat uniform I made had to be given to Olivia.

    Olivia, who becomes transparent and hunts her prey.

    Somehow, the image of a jaguar hunting prey in the jungle came to mind.

    So the group spent several weeks at the Citadel, training and resting.

    Maria succeeded in reverse engineering the battle suit and creating a battle suit with similar performance.

    Her work may have slightly lower stealth performance, but its durability and wearability were greatly improved, so it seemed like it would be okay to consider it as an item with similar performance.

    The design was also chosen to be cooler so that the knights would like it more.

    Even while we were staying at the Citadel, the Knights did not stop their external activities.

    They mainly traveled around planets on the outskirts of the Pioneer galaxy, gradually expanding their influence, and now the number of those wishing to join has exceeded a thousand.

    There are also hundreds of people who have already been educated and re-invested.

    It was expected that the size of the Knights Templar would continue to grow exponentially.

    As the number of people increases, we will be able to operate in a wider range of universes, and as a result, more applicants will come from there.

    ‘Just in case, I should make sure not to clash too much with the existing group.’

    I emphasized that part to Kai Delshad.

    As he was the leader of the rebels in the original work, his abilities are acknowledged, but it’s not that he’s completely careless.

    It would be a problem if the Knights Templar were to be labeled as a group of space pirates for no reason.

    But if we’re careful here, we might be able to make a contract with the planetary government to maintain security.

    Because the fighting power of the Knights is stronger than that of ordinary mercenaries or security companies.

    Fortunately, however, since the identity of our knights has religious overtones, the risk of Kai Delshard going astray was not that great.

    “Leave it to me. I will not tarnish the name of the Knights.”

    “I will make sure to watch over you, Saint!”

    Kai Delshard, who had received the order, also nodded, and One-Eyed Jack, who had become the vice-captain, also raised his voice next to him.

    Jack recovered his lost eye after receiving my treatment, but he never gave up his nickname, One-Eyed Jack.

    It’s a name that proves the miracles I’ve shown as a saint, and I like having a nickname that’s moderately scary.

    These people, who first became my subordinates, became commanders and rose to positions of training and leading new recruits.

    These people, who were basically just mercenaries, became officers of the Knights Templar in just a few months. As expected, the name card of being an early member was powerful.

    However, it is not true that the Knight Commander Kai Delshard exercised his authority over personnel solely based on friendship. Except for a few exceptionally talented individuals, those who joined the Knights early were given the opportunity to receive nanobots and learn martial arts quickly, so it was a natural promotion.

    Since Maria had also designed the organization’s management system herself, there seemed to be no need to worry about the Knights’ Order growing in size and committing piracy or becoming independent on other planets.

    I asked Basnit to secure not only the optical camouflage combat suit, but also other equipment.

    I think it would be safe to say that I have gained everything I could from this trip.

    I put the first batch of combat suits I produced into my inventory and ended my journey.

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    [The world of ‘Nova Empire’ stops.]

    [Settle your travel compensation.]

    [Basic Reward: 1700 Miles]

    [Achievements: Recruit the Rebel Leader, Saint of Novaris, Restart the Dyson Sphere, Create the Knights of Luminaris, Restore the Citadel, Destroy the Bug Nest, Suppress the Criminal Group, Expand Influence Within the Galaxy, … … .]

    [Additional Achievement: [Martial Arts – Thunderbolt] and 14 other souvenir baggage registrations]

    [Intermediate Reward: 241,700 Miles]

    [Midterm Evaluation: It is an indisputable fact that religion is an effective means of uniting humanity in the space age. The Knights of Luminaris are centered around the Citadel, bound by the solid bond of religion. However, as the saying goes, a religion without joy is not a religion, and if the Knights do not solidify their identity, the Citadel will have no choice but to wander. Furthermore, as power grows, it is natural that others will focus their attention on it. Those who wish to maintain the existing order are likely to be wary of the emergence of a new armed group. Tester’s… … .]

    When I saw the intermediate compensation, my mouth fell open.

    On this trip, I earned a whopping 240,000 miles.

    The reward seemed great, as the Knights Templar had established a vast influence over the universe.

    ‘Wouldn’t this make it easier to earn mileage in the future?’

    As the size of the Knights Templar grows, my influence also grows.

    This meant that the incoming mileage would likely increase proportionally to the size of the Knights.

    A smile came to my face out of fullness.

    If I become stronger with the mileage I earn this way, I may be able to exert greater influence with that power.

    This is the virtuous cycle of mileage.

    Of course, as the midterm evaluation warned, I could have been too pushy and ended up with my pillars uprooted.

    Because the Knights Templar aren’t big enough yet to let me run wild as I please.

    As we grow in scale, it is not something I can stop from pushing the boundaries of the existing powers, but I think we need to be a little more careful.

    And that’s true about the Knights Templar too.

    If you take the wrong direction, it’s easy to end up as a cult fanatic or a space pirate.

    In fact, there is no doubt about his loyalty, as he has experienced the miracle of being injected with nanobots under the pretext of ‘Light of Novaris’ and recovering from even the most severe injuries. However, he must continue to be careful not to let that loyalty manifest in strange ways.

    ‘I’ll have to ask Kai Delshard about this again the next time I enter the Nova Empire.’

    Anyway, for now, things are going very smoothly.

    Come to think of it, I felt like the more I traveled, the more fake identities I had.

    In the Academy of the Fallen Kingdom, he was a test subject, in Namhira, he was a runaway, and in New Kind, he was disguised as an android.

    The only place where there was no need to hide one’s identity was in ‘A Guide for Tower Climbers’, where everyone was summoned and dragged in.

    To begin with, it was inevitable for me, as I had no connection to that world.

    It’s literally like something that fell from the sky, so I had no choice but to create my own identity.

    ‘I never imagined that I would become a saint.’

    Laughter came out naturally.

    It was quite a heavy responsibility for me, who had no religious ties other than participating in events to receive food in the military.

    ‘But since I’ve decided to imitate a saint, I might as well do it right.’

    It was inevitable to control the Knights Templar, and I didn’t particularly hate religion, so I didn’t feel any aversion to it.

    ‘By the way, where do I use this mileage?’

    I shook off my thoughts about Nova Empire and started thinking about other things.

    If you add the 241,700 mileage earned this time to the 134,500 mileage you already have, you get a whopping 376,200 mileage.

    Even if you accumulate mileage that exceeds the emergency fund, you won’t get any interest.

    It’s time to start investing again.

    My gaze turned to the mileage shop floating in the corner of my vision.

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