The military would continue to expand.
Hades had no intention of limiting the kingdom's population. Instead, he would use policies to draw people to other islands.
In fact, the kingdom's homeland had always accepted very few outsiders.
Nor had it deliberately recruited people.
It simply attracted them through its own advantages.
When it came to the kingdom's development, Hades had always put forward an idea, then left it to his subordinates to carry out.
Every aspect of the kingdom's development involved the advisory group working behind the scenes, which consisted of more than a hundred elite members.
Beyond them were talented people from every profession.
Often, once Hades proposed an idea, they could refine it and put it into practice.
The advisers also offered all sorts of ideas of their own.
Talent was the main driving force behind the kingdom's development. That was precisely why the Royal Military Academy and the various vocational schools had been established.
By now, many people had already left the Kronos Kingdom to pursue opportunities in the northern waters and the Pluton Sea.
At least half the taverns and restaurants throughout the Pluton Sea now had chefs who had graduated from the Kronos Kingdom's professional culinary schools.
The skilled workers at the Witch's Banquet and the various massage establishments had also received highly specialized training.
This great nation brimmed with vitality, and every year brought new changes.
Everyone was creating this miracle with their own hands.
Hades could sense it all, as though feeling the beat of a pulse. By comparison, events out at sea seemed rather dull.
Ninety percent of the documents Hades read each day were internal reports from the kingdom. Matters out at sea accounted for only a tenth.
Hades could afford not to care about them.
Even so, he still habitually