After defeating the last human resistance force on this land, the Arathor Empire began a top-down reform.
Emperor Thoradin had only one goal: to completely erase the traces the tribes had left on everyone, ensuring that all humans genuinely identified themselves as subjects of the empire rather than members of some former tribe.
Of course, this was no easy task. There was still much work for him to do.
Beyond that, the newly born Human Empire urgently needed time to recover and rebuild, reform its technology, improve productivity, and lay roads connecting the various fiefdoms of the nobility to the capital, Stromgarde, strengthening the royal family's control over the entire nation.
In short, there was endless work to do every day.
The one thing that made Thoradin grateful was that his teacher, Allen, had built a rudimentary bureaucratic system from scratch.
Several years earlier, he had also begun training children in skills such as Common Tongue writing, arithmetic, surveying, coordination, and management.
And now, these more than two hundred educated youths had officially taken on the heavy responsibility of governing the nation.
Although their performance was still rather immature, and they often caused absurd incidents that left people laughing and crying, they were already far superior to those tribal elders who barely knew how to read and could only seek experience from their predecessors.
By the time the relocation and resettlement of those prisoners of war had been fully handled, three whole months had passed.
Aside from the occasional bad news of beasts or Trolls attacking human villages, the Arathor Empire generally maintained stability and prosperity.
Some tribes settled deep in the mountains had even heard that a powerful and prosperous Human nation had been established. They sent envoys from thousands of miles away, hoping to receive the Emperor's investiture