1 Day 1

*Congratulations*

*The path of conquerors was stained with blood deceive and treachery. To become a champion is hard but to preserve the glory of your legacy is harder.*

*You have accomplished the Demo reserve for the holder in the closed beta system.*

*The open world will begin after the time counting to 0*

*Reward for accomplished the main task.*

*You will have a chance to meet with God again. Do you want to proceed?*

*warning there only 2 years 5 months 6 days and 2 hours left before the option is terminated.*

*Yes/Not now*

The system was showing a congrats message after the last decisive victory for David over the northern alliance.

2 weeks later at the city of Xinping the capital of Ramela empire, the newly created city by David The First after he named himself as the first king of Ramela kingdom.

The cheat system holder David then changed his country name from the kingdom to an empire declaring himself as Shi Huangdi. His old retainer although didn't understand the reason why their leader chose this strange word, a weird name that came without any meaning from either history or myth as his ranks, seem to ignored it as this was David ways of naming thing.

Even though it sounds strange but no one wanted to directly defy their monarch over some minor details, even the congressman and senator just passed the bill approving this ranks without any protest.

In front of the temple of Light-bringer, the ceremony performs by the leader of pontiffs who asked David for permission to let the church of light be the one to put a crown on David's head. David agreed but now that the time for the coronation of David was undergoing, instead of waiting for the pontiff David snatched the crown from the pontiff then turn himself to facing the audience below and put the crown over his head. From the corner of his eye, David could see how the pontiffs leader's face remains unchanged but thought otherwise in his mind, by using eyes of all knowing one of skill which the system was given to David from the early days of his quest to become an emperor, however he decided to pay it no heed. "Those old geezers always using gods for their own agenda anyway, so why would I care, have they really meet that gods they always preach about." For David who had made real contact with God, these group of Gandalfs was nothing worthy of his concern.

The crowd cheered the first emperor Davidshihuangdi as he gently put the crown on his head and with this, the coronation was completed. The sound of joy was echoed through the city, even those outside the inner wall could hear it, the capital was filled with joy and happiness. In fact, the happiness was over the whole empire that now controls all of the known worlds, since David ordered the minister of finance and governors to open the granary for every people throughout the empire for this day. His friend and trusted aide, count Solo, complained a bit but still agree to do so.

The human countries on the continent of Noseth were now finally officially unified under the sole ruler, emperor David of the Sacred Ramale empire, except for some of those nomads tribe and region under demihuman's rule which paid tribute and provide hostages showing obedience to human supremacy.

Free foods were given to even the people of the lowest hierarchy, the slave with or without an owner will be able to eat to the full. As for the capital, the banquet was held at every people's square within the outer wall, watching the live broadcast from the fountain broadcasting device. and in the inner wall every people could chose to watch from the broadcasting device in their respective place , go a bit further to the upper part the city or may climb up the thousand steps stairs of the inner city northeast and southeast towers to watch the coronation directly using the long distance looking device designated by the emperor himself.

The coronation ended smoothly, the common people began to walk back to their home while the noble and bureaucrat preparing themselves for the grand bouquet at the palace. Those who had been invited was very excited, they know that the palace was designed, embellished and supervised by the emperor himself, making them believe that surely everything they about to see must be elaborate beyond their dream, for example; the great hall must be expensive and beautiful, the footpath may be paved with marble while the ceiling depicted the exploits of his majesty grand campaign. Many thoughts occurred in the head of those who decided to surrender and now became a new vassal of Ramale empire. However, those that served David since the beginning knew otherwise. David was born of a commoner family, he knew how hard the common people face, surely such a man won't waste the money from the treasury in a stupid way, at least they cringed on to that believe that David will not change.

When the guests came to the great hall some were disappointed at how David didn't even try to decorate the palace with grand chandeliers or lavish sculptures, as for garden you could say that even some baron's garden was more splendid than the royal palace. Of course, the size of the palace was spacious suitably enough for the emperor but in the eyes of those loaded noble, this was more of a clean and lavish fortress than a palace.

Some people may disappoint but some people respected him more than before. His friends and close retainers who survive through thick and thin relieved that their friend and leader was the same person as he was. Some nobles and bureaucrats with scholar upbringing who favor the voluntary simplicity way of life pleased with the palace, also some realistic person and those favor utility theory too. People wandered in their thought for a bit until the Master of Ceremony announced everybody to paid respect as emperor with his empress in tow followed by the crown prince and other royal families came in. After the people in the hall had paid respect to David, the banquet started as the emperor began his speech and ended it with a round of applause, the emperor and the empress then greet with every visitor that was named by court announcer, after the emperor greets everyone he then signaled the court steward to start the dance and feast. The feast was using the buffet style not familiar to many guests, for those who lived inside the capital and those who well informed this was nothing, the buffet may be brought some eerie to those who never attend something like this before but the awkward soon slowly diminish after they noticed how comfortable this style provided.

Even if David looks around without using his eyes of all-knowing, he still knew that almost all the guests were pleased. When he needs to perform a bouquet during his early days as an upstart noble with a shortage of funds, this is his method to resolve the problems with feast he faced at those time.

Buffets had many benefits, to start with a formal plated dinner required every course to be served individually, of course, this is definitely a luxury, but it would cost a lot. On the other hand, buffets served every course at the same time. As a result, guests are able to eat at their own pace and cattle he sacrifices for the occasion would be used to its fullest capacity. Buffets also encourage guests to know each other because standing and talking while eating was more favorable for those who wanted to enjoy the party, even more, the rank could be ignored as they were not assigned the fixing seat. David then looked at the woman beside him, the tomboy princess who decades ago pretend to be a squire who without any beware of social norms fearlessly greeting him a promising noble, and now became his Empress.

And for those who want the private area for themselves the table could be on the VIP table specially reserved with just one or two servers ready and waiting to meet the needs of each person at the table and everything will be fine. In sum, as a general rule, buffets were much cheaper than a formal ones and because buffets do not need to have as many staff members on hand to serve guests his chef and cooks was able to help him pass his first trial as a noble, furthermore since party at Baron David house became famous for its unique foods and style this brought fame for him politically and socially too.

The party finished late into the night, the guests went back home one by one until there were none. At the same time, the worker in the royal palace still had to take care of the cleaning.

The emperor had gone before the banquet ended, let his other wives and retainers to attend to guests. On the ways to royalty private quarter David and his empress met with a head maid, instructed her not to let anyone into the vicinity unless the matter is of DEFCON 2, they then moved into the bedchamber.

"If you favor the time with me that much why don't you have only me as your only wife?"

"….Are you angry? I thought you were consent."

"Of course! I'm angry but I want to help you so I endured." The couple talked and cuddled for a few minutes before falling asleep. On this first night of his reign as emperor, David slept soundly with his lovely wife.

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