Chapter 589: It's not flying cattle and horse knights anymore, and human adventurers in the Elf Forest
Rand returned to his domain.
The sanctuary of the Dukedom of the Moon.
The Sanctuary had not changed much since Rand left.
It's just that when he left, Rand was just Duke Rand, but now, he is His Majesty Rand.
The residents of the Sanctuary were aware of Rand's change in status, and someone had already informed them of the great achievements of His Majesty Rand.
But they have long been loyal subjects.
Whether Rand is a king, a bandit, or a demon, they are all Rand's loyal followers.
They are not more loyal to Rand because he is king, nor are they more suspicious of Rand because he is seen as something else.
So when Rand returned to his sanctuary, he did not feel many changes. Only occasionally people who were familiar with Rand would joke with him and salute him.
Address Rand as Your Majesty.
The others are basically busy with their own things.
It was not very popular for citizens in the Lunar Duchy to salute Rand.
Because Rand does not require citizens to do these things to express their respect for him, returning the salute is still quite troublesome.
As for other nobles, they rarely appear in front of ordinary civilians, so they may not be bored by these rituals.
Rand was different. He appeared before citizens many times.
However, although the attitude of the residents of the Sanctuary towards Rand has not changed much, Rand's ascension to the throne has brought some changes.
The most important thing is the lord's hall.
Rand has no interest in moving the capital. The Duchy of the Moon, especially the holiday villa and the sanctuary, is his base.
Therefore, the current lord's hall should not be called the lord's hall, but should be called the royal palace.
When the hideout was renamed the Sanctuary, the lord's hall had been repaired and renovated.
The lord's hall was decorated with many luxurious decorations.
In essence, the decoration style is still majestic with a wild atmosphere.
Huge columns, rugged marble and rough basalt constitute the main body of this palace.
Entering the lord's hall, there are relic lamps, gold embroidered patterns, and luxurious red carpets.
But the first thing that catches the eye and will surely attract all eyes is at the deepest part of the lord's hall.
A giant lord's chair, as if prepared for giants.
Now it should be called a throne.
Under the throne is naturally the altar of the evil gods collected by Rand.
Now Rand's strength has increased.
There is no need to worry too much about being suddenly assassinated or attacked and having to hide in the kingdom of God.
But the custom of building the altar under the throne has been retained.
Rand walked across the red carpet and came to the gray-black throne, which was also made of hard stone.
Rand, wearing the crown, rested his face on one hand in his customary posture, his elbows on the armrests of the throne.
Rand lowered his black eyes slightly, looking down at his subjects under the throne.
"How do you feel, Your Majesty?" Ellie asked, leaning against Rand.
In fact, as the queen, she is entitled to a seat next to the throne.
But Ellie was not used to this. As for sitting on this overly large throne with Rand... Rand had reminded the high-ranking officials of the Sanctuary that the throne was dangerous.
Everyone actually knows that there are altars to the evil gods under the throne.
So everyone knows where the danger comes from.
Therefore, no one would touch this dangerous throne casually.
Without prayers, sacrifices will not be initiated, but in this world, the altar is still the place closest to God's gaze.
If God sees me, it will be bad...
Rand doesn't care, at worst he can just go to the Kingdom of God.
"My dear queen, it feels good to sit on the throne." Rand pushed the crown on his head with the back of his hand.
After wearing it for a while, Rand took off the crown.
You can't bow your head, or your crown will fall off. This is very real.
In fact, the crown can be stuck or glued to the head, but that would be very uncomfortable.
But if you just wear it on your head, it will really fall down if you lower your head.
Maybe this means the King never bows?
Rand didn't care about that.
He took the golden crown off his head and placed it on the armrest of the throne beside him.
Rand spread his fingers and smoothed his hair.
The lord's hall and lord's chair have now become the royal palace and throne.
But Rand still can't escape from work, and now he has even more work because of the loss of Marcus.
"There are two things to name here." Rand looked at the high-ranking officials of the Sanctuary sitting in the territory hall.
Karin and Archbishop Kahn also came.
"The first problem is the problem of the Torch Church." Rand said.
"When we split, we called the Torch Church in our territory the Firstborn, which means the original intention and new life." Rand said slowly, "Now, after discussion, we think we should reject this name."
The senior executives present listened quietly.
"The Torch Church should be us, not some sect. Those Torch Church believers who are living outside will eventually submit to us or be destroyed." Rand finished the first point.
Now that we are initiating the reunification of the Torch Church, there is no need to call it a faction anymore.
After complete unification in the future, we can call ourselves the New Torch Church or something like that, but there is no need to divide ourselves into factions now, otherwise it will be detrimental to reunification.
After all, defining yourself as a faction means distinguishing yourself from other factions.
Rand is now making some internal changes in other factions, especially in the New Holy City.
It is envisioned that after the conquest is completed, some will be absorbed, some will be reformed through labor, and some will be executed.
"The other is to rename our Moon Kingdom's special forces." Seeing that there were no problems, Rand moved on to the next topic.
"The Flying Cattle and Horses are a powerful army of our Moon Kingdom. They have the ability to fly, are well-armed, have a strong fighting will, and have excellent combat skills."
"It's a bit arbitrary to continue to use the name of the Flying Cattle and Horses for this kind of unique and powerful military unit, so I'm thinking of renaming them. What do you think?"
Rand's alternatives are the Dragonblood Hippogriff Knights or the Kingdom's First Knights.
Both names sound nice and official.
Suitable for talking about later.
Otherwise, when others hear the name of the Flying Oxen and Horse Corps, they will not be able to immediately react to its horror.
But if we hear in the future that the First Knights of the Moon Kingdom are coming, then the effect might be better.
Those who were present and qualified to attend the meeting also gave some opinions.
For example, the Silver Moon Knights, the Dragon Blood Knights, the Hospital Knights, etc...
Rand actually seriously considered that the name Dragonblood Knights sounded cool.
Just as Rand hesitated, he saw Lysa's eyes. He could easily interpret something from Lysa's eyes.
This doesn't seem to be something suitable or have a good meaning that can be used for naming.
The decision was made by the First Knights of the Moon Kingdom.
Some of the First Knights of the Moon Kingdom will serve as Rand's personal guards.
The rest formed knightly orders to serve the country.
The First Knights of the Kingdom will be equipped with dragon-blooded eagles as mounts, and their weapons and equipment will be magic fine steel armor, equipped with a small crossbow, and a spear.
At the same time, Rand will train a group of mages equipped with standard magic staffs as military magic knights to become part of the First Knights of the Moon Kingdom to fill the gap in magical power.
At the same time, the First Knights of the Kingdom will be given priority in logistics supply, and the Centaur Transport Force will give priority to preparing logistics services for the First Knights of the Kingdom.
There are now quite a large number of Centaurs in the Rand Territory. Some of them patrol the territory as Knights of the Thunder Knights, while the other part forms Pegasus Express, which is responsible for both material and transportation.
This Pegasus Express was of course named after Rand.
Then the rather ceremonial event ended just like that.
There are still some that need to be named and will be added later.
The Tauren Legion, and even the Elf Legion, these things are still to be determined.
Next on the agenda was the issue of territorial administration.
The current stability of the Rand territory is very, very low.
Because the military breakthrough was so rapid, the local enemies were not completely wiped out.
Just conquering cities and seizing territories in such a short period of time was already very urgent. Although rapid capture was conducive to population retention, it also gave local forces a certain ability to resist.
This is what Rand decided to tackle next.
"We are also trying to defeat the local resistance forces in one blow. The strategy we adopt is also quite simple. It is still the same as before. Decapitation by high-level combat forces and breakthrough by frontal high-speed troops. The First Knights of the Sky Kingdom are ready to provide support at any time." Rand gave instructions on the elimination of local resistance forces.
The resistance forces in these places may be very troublesome. If we defend the city, it will be quite difficult to deal with them. This difficulty in dealing with them means that it is not cost-effective to deal with them, not that they are really impossible to deal with them.
To capture a castle, you need several times the number of troops and it takes a long time.
As for those castles that could not be breached in a short period of time, Rand planned to put them aside for the time being and send strong men to cause trouble for them later.
I wonder if it was Elsa or some high-ranking official from the Sanctuary who knocked on their door? "What should we do after we defeat the ownerless land?" Taner was of course taking orders in the palace.
In a sense, Taner is Rand's Minister of War, and all military-related matters are handled by Taner.
"I plan to build a school." Rand only had a not very reliable idea.
Now, the Moon Kingdom is just in its infancy, and it is the stage of blazing a trail through the mountains and forests.
Of course, many problems cannot be perfect.
At this stage, Rand plans to adopt school governance methods to solve local governance issues.
Set up a school locally, send a few experienced and capable teachers, and then enroll a group of students.
These students will be local young people.
Rand would promise them a future after graduation, but in exchange, they had to help teachers manage the local area during the initial stage of the school.
At the same time, Rand will also send missionaries, who will serve as teachers in schools to teach knowledge, assist in local governance and spread doctrine.
Then send three or five veterans and three or five new recruits.
This is how a place is configured.
The world does not recognize local governance without aristocracy leadership.
But as the king of the new country, Rand doesn't have to care about these issues.
Just roughly manage the local area like this.
The Rand Society requires missionaries and teachers to prioritize their own safety and not to carry out local governance entirely in accordance with national policies. Instead, they should adapt to local conditions and avoid too much conflict with local culture.
This is of course quite crude and won't produce much.
But it is much better than being abandoned without anyone to manage it, and even out of Rand's control.
When the talents trained in church schools and local schools also trained talents, the overall number of talents in the Holy Land forces continued to increase.
After that, Rand can gradually strengthen its local governance.
In short, let’s first wipe out all the evil resistance forces in the area.
"If there are no further questions, the meeting will be adjourned." Rand maintained his usual concise meeting style.
The high-ranking officials of the Holy Land and other people who were qualified to attend left their seats and walked out of the palace.
Karin and Archbishop Kahn did not leave immediately, but came to Rand's side: "There is something that needs attention."
"What is it?"
"The Torch Church does not have much objection to you becoming the head of the church. Everyone has seen what we have done over the years, but this is still a major change from the original concept..."
"There are some stubborn people who are completely unconvincing?"
"Yes, they even regard us, Archbishop Kahn, as apostates bewitched by the devil, and me too." Karin has always acted as a senior nun in the church, but now she, the saint, is regarded as an evil apostate.
"So I am the devil who bewitched you?" In a sense, Rand does have a lot of evil in him, he said with a chuckle.
"In short, there may be some people who act extremely. You should pay attention to it recently." Karin reminded.
Then Karin and Bishop Kahn left.
The Torch Church's agenda for reunification has been launched, and their work has increased as Rand's.
…
And at this time in the Elf Forest.
The Elf Forest is a newly opened adventure location and a high-risk area that can only be participated by advanced adventurers.
But there are also corresponding rewards.
The Sunshine Adventurer Team naturally came here to adventure.
Their job is simple, to assist the staff of the Sanctuary in transporting supplies and dealing with monsters or other enemies that require adventurous experience to deal with.
Overall the work is relatively easy.
It is more difficult to deal with elves.
The elves' arrows and magic caused many adventurers to suffer.
However, these are relatively easy tasks for the Sunshine Adventurer Team. After continuous adventures, they have grown to the level of advanced professionals.
"I got something strange." Luca, the captain of the Sunshine Adventurers Team, took out a fragment of an ancient parchment scroll. "This seems to be some kind of myth?"
(End of this chapter)
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