An Oath was a way of promising or swearing something in Celestial World. It is a Magical way which if they break their Oath they would be punished by the Celestial World itself, specifically either by a lightning strike, being eaten by the ground, being pulled into the depths of the ocean, and etc...

After Ethan finished swearing an Oath, Leo then stood up from his chair as he motioned for Ash, Ethan, Charlotte, and Chief Lago to follow after him.

"Where are we going?" Ash curiously asked, which was also how Ethan, Charlotte, and Chief Lago wanted to know.

"We are going to declare that the Southeast Fortress now belongs to Mischievous Lion organization." Leo said with a mischievous smile on his face.

Suddenly, Leo finally remembered a question he was really confused about as he turned to look at Ethan, "Fourth... I mean Ethan, why didn't I saw any of the Blue Fin Kingdom���s soldiers? Aren't there a few soldiers supposedly stationed in Southeast Fortress?"

"Oh, you obviously don't know this yet, but the Blue Fin Kingdom and your Master Olivia are actually making a deal right now. They are considering to support the Mischievous Lion organization instead of the Silver royal family because the Silver Kingdom had failed to safeguard the Floating Mountain and caused the death of two Leviathans, I don't really know why it's such a big deal, and although the King of Blue Fin Kingdom is completely against this saying that my father is his brother by fist, the real person in control of Blue Fin Kingdom is actually the Queen and not the King, which also finally explains the reason why my wife is so oppressive over me, all the time... If only I wasn't a 1st Galaxy level, then seeing me beaten black and blue every now and then wouldn't be considered abnormal anymore." Ethan explained while voicing out his helplessness with his wife. Despite that, though, he clearly loves and adores his wife very much.

"Oh, I did hear you're an 'under' of your wife, hahaha!" Leo didn't bother holding his laughter. Ethan was really the best definition of a simp, though there is clearly nothing wrong with that, at least in his case.

"Hehehehe, I know it's considered as shameful by the vast majority of people, especially to males, because for them a man being oppressed by his wife is really not befitting for the status of a man, but all I can say is, everyone is different, so if they don't like it then they don't like, and if they do, then we are of the same page!" Ethan replied with firmness in his voice.

"Anyways, help me raise this flag!" Leo said as he motioned for everyone to help him remove the Silver royal family flag and replace it with the Mischievous Lion organization's flag, which is a symbol of a mischievously smiling lion with a crown on the top of its head.

This Mischievous Lion organization's flag that he had got actually came from the members of the Mischievous Lion organization hiding in the Southeast Fortress, and now that this Southeast Fortress belongs to them, it is now then time to show the Silver Kingdom the Mischievous Lion organization's flag on the top of this place, marking that it no longer belongs to them.

With the Mischievous Lion organization's flag risen up from the Commander's Palace, the remaining 3 Barracks soon followed after, then finally the surrounding walls of the Southeast Fortress.

.....

News of the Southeast Fortress being conquered by the Mischievous Lion organization spread really fast, causing a massive amount of shock and distress to all sorts of people afterwards.

The ordinary citizens were shocked because the Mischievous Lion organization actually claimed once again another one of the most powerful territories of the Silver royal family for its own. The powerful territory they meant about is the Southeast Fortress, Southern Fortress, Southwest Fortress, and East Fortress.

The Noble Households that were still loyal to the Silver royal family was sent into distress and worry and also panic as well because if ever the Silver royal family lost this war then they will also fall alongside with them. While on the other hand, those Noble Households who already swore loyalty to the Mischievous Lion organization roared out in celebration of their triumph.

A minority of the Noble Households quickly started reconsidering their position in this war, while the vast majority stayed within the city walls of the territories the Silver royal family still owned to defend against all odds.

Meanwhile, when the members of the Mischievous Lion organization heard about this; Olivia immediately smiled widely because his favorite disciple finally made a comeback that will definitely render his two senior brother's years of hard work for nothing.

"Leo and Reinhart are really brothers!"

The 24 Elders were happy, because they now have 4 territories that belong to their Mischievous Lion organization, and it was unexpectedly located to corner the Sword and Magic that were positioned in Southern Fortress.

"One of Queen Olivia's disciple showed us once again that they're much better than us, hahahaha!"

"As if!"

"Tch, it's really annoying how the 12 Zodiacs just outshine us immediately every time they achieve something. How about the things we do? Like beating the crap out of Vins and Lanny Blacksmoke, or slapping the butt of those two beautiful City Lords of Blue Coral city and Green Weed city? Is it really not worth recognizing?"

"Don't you know shame? They were basically outnumbered by dozens of us. Vins and Lanny Blacksmoke vs 12 of you, while Diana Blue and Louise Green vs another 12 of us. If you want to be recognized for such shameful actions, then please leave me out of it."

"Exactly, hahahaha!"

The Smiling Lion group in the 12 Zodiacs can finally breathe a sigh of relief knowing that their leader finally returned, and he even gave the Gemini Dagger group and Claw of Cancer group a powerful slap to their arrogant faces.

"Not talking anymore, are we?"

"Tch, you both groups were so loud just now, where's that voice now?"

"Whimper you damn dogs!"

Gemini Dagger George and the Claw of Cancer Charles was stunned and dumbfounded. They really thought that their opportunity to claim the President sit has finally arrived because Leo was sent into somewhere unknown, said by their Master Olivia as the Defensive Magical Artifact she had gifted to him has activated to save his life from the danger he had encountered back at Floating Mountain, but never did they expect that 10 days or so later he will be back, and would even also cause the two of them a massive seat back immediately, though they were also feeling happy since their junior brother finally returned and they don't need to worry about him anymore, but the bitter taste of instant defeat is still really too much for them to handle again, it's like the both of them were brought back to the past where the two of them could easily be beaten up by Leo even if it's two against one.

"He is still our junior brother, no matter what we do!" George said with a smile.

"Damn this bittersweet taste of being defeated but also at the same time feeling relieved knowing that he's safe! Plain annoying to the bones!" Charles heaves a sigh of helplessness.

Mischievous Lion faction, now being lead by Cassandra, although they weren't students of Silver Mage Academy anymore because of their status as an affiliation of Mischievous Lion organization, immediately started jumping up in joy back at Heart city when they heard their faction leader's return. And it was even a really astonishing comeback as he claimed the Southeast Fortress as a mark for his return.

"Is this Leo's real capability?" Michael said in shock.

"I guess so..." Adrian answered, which quickly received both Raffy and Angelo's agreement.

"That annoying guy is finally back!" Elizabeth said in displeasure, but her mouth was clearly smiling sweetly.

"He will definitely receive a beating from me the moment he returns back after leaving me to work hard every single day!" Cassandra also showed the same reaction as Elizabeth.

"I can finally feel at ease knowing that sir Leo didn't die after saving us." Veronica heaves a sigh of relief.

"Too bad though that Angel was called out by Madam Silva back to Sword and Magic..." Anna said.

"She would definitely be showing a cold but happy inside look on her face, the same as her everyday reaction." Alfred added.

Unexpectedly, even the Black organization was also expressing their reaction, though everything was of negative reactions.

"That brat returned?" Timothy Will said.

"Why didn't he just die!" Jacob Will added.

"It's because you didn't instruct Lu Ming to specifically kill him!" Paul Williams rolled his eyes.

"Exactly!" Arvin Williams added.

Inside a dark room, Richton clenched his fist really tightly causing it to bleed the moment he heard of Leo's return, "Just you wait, you'll definitely die, and it will be by my hands and will also be permanent!"

"What are you whispering about, ha?!" Escobar yelled out angrily to Richton, "Keep on training kid if you don't want to die helplessly like Caynis and Viper!"

.....

Back at Southeast Fortress, Leo was naturally ignorant of everyone's reaction. But he obviously doesn't care about them, even if he knows about it, because the most important thing for him right now is what to do next.

Right now, he was left with ultimately only two choices of action, which is either to attack the Blue Coral city to connect with his Heart city and hence attack Green Weed city afterwards, or to attack Southern Fortress instead with obviously the assistance of the Heart city and Southeast Fortress, to finally eliminate the biggest threat to the Mischievous Lion organization, the Sword and Magic organization. The first choice is relatively easier than the latter, but the latter is also very important compared to the former.

"What do you guys think?" Leo turned to look at everyone sitting on the chairs around the long table inside the Commander's Palace.

Seated at Leo's right side was Ash and his left side was Ethan. The both of them are now his Commanders. Next to Ash was Chief Lago, and then the 4 other leaders of the 5 Divisions. On the other hand, next to Ethan was his wife Princess Elaine with a familiar rabbit that Boss Kent had seen before on her shoulder, then Charlotte, then Sheng Lao, or otherwise known as General Sheng, the General who run away from Dan, General Alan Wood of North Barracks, the last standing Barracks of Southeast Fortress before, and Boss Kent. The 10 of them are now his Generals.

At this moment, Leo's plan to establish an army is finally happening. The only thing he lacks right now was Butler Xiao and the others back at Heart city to come and join them in this long table, which would finally complete the structure of his current plan army.