Zahid's banquet for succeeding to the princedom was held on a grand scale.
The feast was divided into several tiers.
The Sultan, Archbishop Ude, and Zahid himself naturally dined at the highest tier.
The accompanying guests were demigod-level powerhouses, provincial beys, and landed nobles of the Sanjak rank.
The next tier down was mainly for the city's gentry, dignitaries, and wealthy merchants.
The lowest tier had practically become a buffet-style open feast, accommodating nearly ten thousand spectators.
More than seventy million Denars had been spent on this succession banquet.
Even if someone like Zong had used that money for war, it would have been enough for a magic cannon array to thoroughly bombard the ground.
Most of the expenditure had gone toward the first two tiers.
The open feast's standards and dishes were clearly much poorer.
Still, it was comparable to the holiday fare of an ordinary manor lord.
In addition, two hundred celebration stations had been set up throughout the Outer City District. Anyone who left a blessing for the new ruler could receive a small bag of flour and two sugar cubes.
Some of the celebration stations also distributed eggs.
When Prince Ayub had still been alive, the city's granaries had held enough food to feed all its soldiers and civilians for several years.
Using spatial storage items to stockpile surplus food, and establishing food-production bases centered around oases, enhanced through natural magic and Earth Element magic, were common practices within the Sarranid Sultanate.
With the aid of magic, harvesting several crops in a single year was nothing difficult.
Livestock were much the same.
There were many unusual breeds of livestock on the Endless Continent.
For example, red-crested chickens with two cloacas that could lay eggs twice a day.
Or sturdy mules with humps on their backs.
There