The Guard Knights' Red Sparrow Squad had already been formed. Twenty-six elite fire-aspect Earth Knights had all signed Beast-Taming Contracts with Red Sparrow Birds with Liszt's help.
The Red Sparrow Squad would serve as the first batch of knights guarding Flame Royal City.
Of course, they were still only reserves. Only once the Red Sparrow Birds had truly formed close bonds with them and would not rebel could the Red Sparrow Squad's official roster be confirmed. No matter what, these knights would become the backbone of the Burning Legion in the future, as well as knights directly under the Flame Family.
The Flame Royal City they were to guard had not yet been fully completed, but its main framework had basically taken shape.
In such a magical fantasy world, construction might not be especially advanced, but as long as one was willing to spend resources and mobilize magicians for the work, the speed, quality, and difficulty of construction would absolutely be handled more efficiently than by Earth's high-tech building methods.
As it happened, the Moon-Slayer natives on Flame Island had used magic dust to cultivate large numbers of ancient magicians.
They took part in construction and handled the most difficult portions, making the city's construction advance at breakneck speed. Moreover, the Magic Guild was coordinating matters from behind the scenes and developing more building techniques. Flame Royal City was the highest testing ground for the Flame Kingdom's architectural standards, and it had been planned as a whole from the outset.
Most cities under the knightly system had accumulated naturally over time, without any complete urban planning.
Flame Royal City, however, had been planned from the beginning as a great city with a population of five hundred thousand, with streets and districts laid out in a radial pattern. At the very