BUZZ—!
As this accusatory buzz sounded, an invisible pressure suddenly descended upon the entire reception room.
Navy Commissary General Mallory Barton's forehead immediately bulged with veins. Even Major General Newman and Paymaster Ivan Derrick, equally of the Third Order, began to sweat, as if their shoulders were bearing immense pressure.
A majestic golden insignia appeared behind the Governor.
A crown, palisade, shield, and crossed bloody battle-axes—that was the emblem of the Kingdom's Great Prison.
Jefferson Newman's Profession was indeed that of a Third Order [Warden] in the Tribunal Sequence.
The core ability of a Middle Sequence adept was: "Turn Ground into Prison."
One could designate any place with walls as their jurisdictional prison. In this mystical "prison," they enjoyed all the privileges of a Warden.
It significantly increased strength, speed, and endurance, while simultaneously inflicting varying degrees of negative effects on insubordinate "prisoners."
