While his subordinates were harvesting the Black Mentor's legacy, Lant in the palace barely slept the night before. As soon as he finished dealing with the assassins, he started preparing a large number of gifts.
Lant's canonization this time includes two titles, His Majesty the King's Court Count and Yeqi City Consul. From the perspective of the Holy Supreme Council of the Human Empire, Lant's consul has been appointed by the Imperial Administration on May 22. However, The empire's direct territory is not bordered by the Galloping Horse Plains. The task of defending Yeqi City can only be done by the pillars of the Dragon Kingdom, the only bordering country. Therefore, King Dusen of the Dragon Kingdom must first recognize the kingdom in the official documents of the kingdom. The responsibility for protecting the Galloping Horse Plains further clarifies that Lant is the kingdom's highest officer in Yeqi City.
Previously, the ceremonial officer of the royal palace had come to convey the message, and the main nobles in the kingdom would come to watch the ceremony, so Lant needed to prepare thank-you gifts for dozens of earls, marquises, dukes, and His Majesty's court earls and court marquises.
The gifts have already been prepared: a luxurious set of Galloping Horse wine, including 2 bottles of 1 liter of Galloping horse wine, 2 magic pattern thermos cups, and 4 magic pattern glass cups; of course, the other two Dukes of the Kingdom will also receive a set. 3 ding tableware.
Fortunately, with the portal in the basement of the palace, family members such as Lant and Huck don't even need to take a car to the palace, and naturally they won't encounter traffic jams before their promotion ceremony.
Compared with Li Qi's battle that day, the morning ceremony had many steps simplified. All the nobles above the count came alone to participate, and the ceremony was held in a medium-sized hall.
Before the formal ceremony, King Toussaint met with Lant alone.
"In the morning, Richelieu told me that you helped Li Qi clean the streets outside the city last night." Du Sen asked Lant with a smile. It was obvious that he regarded last night's activity as one of Lant's. This kind of cooperation and goodwill made him very satisfied.
"I am the leader of your majesty's knights. This is what I should do." Now that the palace title has risen, Lant's official location has also changed. He is still the honorary leader of the knights on Dragon Tooth Mountain. The area is Around the Benma Family Palace.
"I said last time that you are a role model among the knights and nobles of the kingdom. Your recent actions have been very good. If every noble could fulfill their duties like you, the empire would have planted its flag in the Orc King's Court. Got it!" The rest of King Duson's speech was very similar to that of Lant's leader in his previous life, about improving his position and implementing the will of the God Emperor, strengthening training, not forgetting the knight code, strengthening unity, communicating more with nobles, and finally You also need to branch out, solve personal problems, etc.
Faced with the king's personal guidance, Lant naturally kept nodding in agreement, and had to write it down specifically in this year's Yeqi City ruling office documents.
The subsequent canonization ceremony was not very long. Witnessed by the Galloping Horse family and the kingdom's senior officials, the king personally put a badge symbolizing the earl on Lant's dress, which matched the viscount, knight, and dragon teeth on Lant's body. The three badges of the Knights of the Mountain are aligned.
When the ceremony was over, after Lant accepted the congratulations from other nobles, he found that his father Huck and uncle Albert's eyes were red.
"Father, I don't think you were so excited during your earl canonization ceremony!"
"Of course it's different," said Huck, wiping his tears with a silk handkerchief.
"Our family's dream for hundreds of years has finally been realized in my generation. When Albert went to the royal capital, he suffered so much ostracism. His father received letters of complaint from other Benma families every month. Now we The glory of our ancestors has finally been restored!”
"Huck, just talk about restoring glory. There's no need to talk about that here." Albert scratched his head.
Lant invited the great nobles to come to the palace to attend his celebratory dance tomorrow night, and then returned to Galloping Horse Palace with his family.
Throughout the afternoon, Lant had to personally receive the guests who came to the palace. Most of these people were the eldest sons of big noble families or minor nobles themselves. Their purpose of coming was surprisingly the same, hoping that their descendants could find a career under Lant. Errands.
Most of these recommended children are between 14 and 16 years old, and are all apprentices. Many of them are the 4th or 5th son of the main branch of a large aristocratic family, or the 2nd or 3rd son of a side branch. Although such children have inspired blood, the family does not have enough resources or positions to support them, so they can only be allowed to Become a knight in another family.
Now that Lant has developed the Galloping Horse Plains, it is time to recruit people. The Knights' establishment can be as large as they want, so many families are naturally eyeing it.
However, these children are not gold coin players like Tierney. They cannot buy equipment worth thousands of gold coins at once. They can only train with the Knights first.
There is indeed a huge shortage of knights in Rand. Whether it is due to demand or favor, each family has retained an apprentice to serve as a palace guard.
The next night, Emmanuel came to the palace with two half-dwarves and more than 20 children. Among the children were boys and girls. Most of their parents had one parent with demonic blood, and the other was a servant of a noble. , lovers and even slaves.
"Sir, yesterday I assisted Knight Dugan, Knight Tierney and Mage Guleia in clearing out some Orc assassin nests." The first thing Emmanuel did when he saw Lant was to report the harvest in the early morning.
"Well, not bad." In the early morning, Dugan Blue Dragon naturally reported it, and also handed over all the magic potions, gold coins and magic pattern tools to Lant for distribution.
Rant was very satisfied that his subordinates were able to take the initiative. He just gave some instructions and left some magic potions and magic plants.
Seeing that Lant did not pursue the case, the mercenary felt as if he had been granted amnesty and quickly introduced the children around him: "These five children all have the blood of Dragonborn. Their fathers or mothers have worked as servants in several Dukes' families. The bloodline also comes from there.”
"Especially her, Willis," Emmanuel patted a rather thin girl on the shoulder,
"Her father is a dragon-born mage, and her mother's family also has the blood of elves. It is very likely that the blood will be inspired in the future!" After two days and one night of tossing, Lant was very sleepy now, but he still listened politely to Emma. After introducing each child, Newell not only paid the super-long-term employment fees for all 22 people, but also gave Emmanuel 20 gold coins alone.
"This is the reward you got for inducing the Magister yesterday. You deserve it. As for your harvest later, it is the income of your own labor." Lant forced the gold coin to the knight in a tone that could not be refused. Considering that the assassins It was all for Rand, and he paddled throughout the battle. This money was actually a deposit for Rand's long-term cooperation.
"If there are any good seeds that you think are good in the future, you can send them to me." After seeing off the mercenary knight, Lant did not stay in the main bedroom of the palace, but returned to the cellar of Yeqi City to sleep in a tent. Because he knew that only when the western border was fixed could he truly sleep peacefully and comfortably.
