Half a month later, Valient ordered the relocation of everyone in the Royal Capital. All were reduced to slave laborers and sent a hundred kilometers west of the Royal Capital to build a new Royal Capital.
At the same time, Valient promised the nobles that once the new Royal Capital was completed, it would be time to reward their merits.
Time passed slowly. A month later, several nobles came together to Valient's temporary residence to volunteer their services, hoping to have their troops participate in the construction of the new Royal Capital as a display of loyalty to him.
Valient understood their intentions perfectly well, but he put on a troubled expression. In the end, under their persuasion, he agreed to their request.
With the addition of more than three hundred thousand Noble Army soldiers, construction of the new Royal Capital accelerated greatly.
Half a year later, after more than half the slave laborers and several thousand noble soldiers had been worked to death, the main structure of the new Royal Capital's royal palace was essentially complete.
On the day construction stopped, Valient directly ordered the Black Armored Legion to take over all defenses of the new Royal Capital and forbade the Noble Army from stationing troops within the city.
Faced with this move, the nobles acted swiftly. Within just a few hours, they withdrew all the troops they had sent to serve as slave laborers.
As Valient moved into the royal palace, it signaled that the rewarding of merits was about to begin.
That night, at the Golden Lion Duchy's military camp outside the new Royal Capital, Serenia Golden Lion's expression turned somewhat grave after she received the Royal Edict delivered by a Royal Guard.
Seeing the expression on Serenia's face, a young general gathered his courage amid his