333. Advancing to Court Count

While his subordinates were busily harvesting the Dark Mentor's legacy, Landen, back in the palace, had barely slept the night before. He had only just finished dealing with the assassins before he began preparing gifts in large quantities.

Landen's conferment this time included two titles: His Majesty the King's Court Count, and Archon of Night-Kirin City. From the perspective of the Human Empire's Supreme Council of the Divine, Landen's archonship had already been appointed by the Imperial Personnel Department on May 22. However, the empire's directly controlled territory did not border the Gallop Plains, so the task of defending Night-Kirin City could only be entrusted to the National Pillars of the Dragon Kingdom, the only ones whose land bordered it. Thus King Dusen of the dragons had to first acknowledge, in the kingdom's official documents, the kingdom's protective responsibility toward the Gallop Plains, and then clearly define Landen as the kingdom's highest official in Night-Kirin City.

Before this, the Royal Palace's ceremony officials had already come to pass along word that the kingdom's major nobles would all attend the ceremony, so Landen needed to prepare thank-you gifts for dozens of counts, marquises, dukes, as well as His Majesty's Court Counts and Court Marquises.

Landen had long since prepared the gifts: luxury sets of Gallop Brew, including two one-liter bottles of Gallop Brew with their Life Magic Pattern bottles, two Magic Pattern Thermoses, and four Magic Pattern Glasses. Of course, for the other two National Pillar Dukes, he also had to send a set of tableware with three cauldrons.

Fortunately, with the teleportation gate in the palace basement, Landen, Hark, and the other family members did not even need to take a carriage to the Royal Palace, and naturally would not encounter the situation of being stuck in traffic before his