Within the Dragon Mountain Empire, a hundred li north of Port Vias, in the newly founded imperial capital of Dragon Mountain City—which had only just begun to take shape—a magnificent hall glittered dazzlingly beneath the sun.
Although the entire city had only been divided into basic districts and given the most rudimentary planning, the imperial palace of the Dragon Mountain Empire had been built at top speed. The main court assembly hall, Dawn Glory Hall, was one of the first enormous structures to be completed.
Originally, following Alda's suggestion, this hall should have been called Beauty's Light!
According to Lin Qi's wishes, he had wanted to call it Glory of Gold.
But after much discussion, considering that the Longshan Family was now entangled with the Dawn Temple and, in outsiders' eyes, appeared to be in league with wolves, and considering the feelings of the Dawn Temple's many clergy, Lin Qi reluctantly named it the Hall of Dawn Glory.
The Dawn Temple was very pleased with this name, while Lin Qi's assessment of it was— a flower stuck in a heap of cow dung. The hall was the flower, and that heap of cow dung was, without question, its name.
With the Longshan Family's habit of spending money like water, the first hall completed in Dragon Mountain City was naturally luxurious to the extreme. Its walls, beams, and pillars were all made from magically smelted alloy, mixed with immense quantities of refined gold, mithril, Star-Pattern Heavy Gold, and other strange metals, making it almost indestructible.
Enhanced by vast numbers of magic arrays and magical runes, the hall's defenses were strong enough to ignore the full-force bombardment of demigod-level experts. Unless several dozen peak demigod experts joined forces and attacked with demigod artifacts, the hall would suffer no significant damage.
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