On his right, Knight sat on his royal seat and his left Arrora stood behind him like a loyal bodyguard while Catalie stood between him and Knight overlooking the crowd before her.
Sitting on his throne Don could see the two separate groups, they were dwarves and the elves, between the dwarves and the elves Reghys occupied the s.p.a.ce with her huge body.
The dwarves looked annoyed and showed their hostility towards the elves, while the elves were more concerned and feared the dragon rather than showing their hostility towards the dwarves.
Even the usually curious Amaryll was shivering in fear in the presence of the Dragon, Don could see Arwen trying his best to not show any fear on his face.
Everyone in the throne hall was waiting for Don to speak but he was waiting for Benedict and Arya to join them but they didn't keep him any longer as they entered the hall.
However at the moment they entered, a scream echoed through the hall.
"Ahhhhhhhh"
The dwarves and the elves turned their heads in the direction of the scream to see a human girl wearing gla.s.ses standing there pale in fear beside a middle-aged man.
"Is that a Dragon?" Benedict had a sudden urge to flee from the hall when he saw the huge Dragon standing in the room.
"I don't eat humans" seeing the girl and the man's pale face Reghys giggled.
Arya and Benedict grasped air when they heard the Dragon's sweet female voice but before they could do anything their legs moved towards the crowd when they saw Don's gaze at them.
"Brother everyone's here" Catalie informed Don after confirming everyone's in the castle is present at the throne hall.
Don slowly stood up from his throne and looked at the crowd as they looked back at Don to see what he's going to say,
"I don't know what happened between the elves and the dwarves, I don't care about the past between you"
The dwarves and elves started to murmur among themselves when they heard Don,
"But what I care is the future, you can be dwarves elves orcs goblins humans demihumans half-elves or anyone to the outside world but here in my kingdom, you all are my people a single ent.i.ty"
Don knew if he spent his time mediating between the races with their petty grudges he would never be the Emperor he wanted to be.
"In the future, this place will be home to many other races but if anyone can't put aside their rivalry this is not the place for them "
Don said in a serious tone as he released his aura to suppress the group and show his power. The aura he released turned the lighted room into a darkened place.
No one uttered a word seeing Don's aura, even Reghys couldn't understand what is this energy he's releasing because she couldn't see any magical energy or fluctuations beside him.
"If all the races stood together against the humans all of you would have been living in your own kingdoms instead of being hunted by the humans like animals "
The elves and dwarves clutched their fists in anger and frustration but they realized the truth in Don's words. Even when the humans waged war against them, they didn't set aside their feud and unite but the humans stood together in the war against them, as a result, the other races lost while the humans won the war and prospered unlike them.
"I won't tolerate any frictions among my people don't forget that if anyone has a problem with this feel free to leave"
Don looked at everyone to see if anyone leaving but like he expected no one dared to move. Don knew they wouldn't have left because of fear or understanding but he didn't care why they chose not to leave as long as they live without fighting amongst them.
"In Unity there is power; you can even move the mountains when you're united but without unity you are victims"
Reghys looked very surprised at Don and she looked forward to his achievements in the future because no one dared to unite all the races under the same roof until now.
"Cat arrange a place for the dwarves to stay" Don said to Catalie as the little girl nodded her head with a big smile and looked at the dwarves.
"Alright, people just follow me" the dwarves first seemed very hesitant but when they say Reghys nod head they relaxed a bit and followed the little girl's projection leaving Stodmer and the Oldman behind.
Seeing everyone leaving Don sat on his throne while Arwen, Amaryll, and Gael didn't leave as well as Stodemer and the Oldman. Don knew they had something to report to him but he was surprised to see Benedict and Arya approaching him.
The first one came forward was Gael, as he stepped forward he slightly bowed towards Don to show his respect
"My lord there were five new addition to our army two female and three male and"
Gael's face was shining like he achieved something
"Now we have ten masters in our ranks my lord including myself and Arwen"
Don was happy to hear the improvements and slightly surprised too. If he could provide them the resources for their magic cultivation the elves could reach even higher levels.
"Good you did a great job I will reward you later Gael" Gael's eyes sparkled when he heard Don saying that he will reward him because he knew the items Don possessed were extremely valuable like the magic mask, the sword he gave to Arrora and the healing potion.
"It's my duty my lord" as Gael said he bowed his head and dismissed himself letting Arwen and Amaryll report.
Arwen and Amaryll didn't bow towards Don like Gael did but a small nod and started reporting to Don
"We covered half of the lands, we have recorded two lakes one big river and two forests one on the south side of the castle and another one in the west"
Arwen read the scroll Amaryll had written for him
"What about farmlands and magical beasts?" Knight interrupted Arwen
"We have acres of fertile lands as for the magical beasts we found some low-level magical beasts but couldn't go deep into the forest we suspect there might be some high-level beasts living there"
Stodmer and the Oldman looked very excited because until now they lived in a barren land without being able to grow anything, not even an edible gra.s.s however now they heard that there are acres of fertile land to farm.
"Good job both of you, leave the scouting for now and Arwen congratulations for reaching master level"
Amaryll laughed like she was the one who reached the master level when she heard Don as Arwen just let out a small smile but inside he was extremely happy.
After dismissing Arwen and Amaryll, Don turned his gaze towards Benedict and Arya who were still shivering in fear seeing the Dragon beside them. Benedict had another problem that is how to address Don because Gael addressed him as 'my lord' but Arwen and Amaryll just called him using his name however he chose not to use either his name or any honorifics for the moment.
"We studied the stone you gave us and reached some conclusions" as Benedict said he nodded facing Arya. Arya closed her eyes and started to chant something as a small fireball appeared on her palm
"The fireball was created by using magical energy but that's it, after something created using magic energy it can't be manipulated in simple words you can't change the fireball into fire stick, however the battle energy you use can manipulate the fire particles themselves its nearly ten times powerful than the magic energy but there's a drawback of using battle energy as well"
Until Benedict's last words Don and Knight didn't care much but when he said drawback both of them looked at him with full concentration but Reghys behind Benedict and Arya looking and listening to their lecture with eyes full of sparkle and curiosity.
"The drawback is the more the powerful the spell created suing magical energy the more battle energy you need to control or manipulate it, if you don't have enough battle energy its better not try to control the powerful spells because the backlash will be severe even life-threatening"
Don was doubtful about the controlling part but he knew about the backlash since he was nearly killed when he fought against the Dragon King's heavenly level projection.
While Don was thinking and reminiscing about what Benedict just said Knight stood from his royal seat
"Can you convert the magical energy to battle energy or battle energy to magical energy?"
Knight didn't care about the drawback because he knew well enough to run or retreat when facing a powerful enemy than himself. For him and Don, there is no shame in retreat and only fools would pick a fight they couldn't win. However, turning magical energy into battle energy or vise versa was something crucial to their plan.
"Yeah about that" Benedict searched his side bag and took out a prism-like object and held it on his palm, there were many nuts and bolts around the object which Don and Knight had no idea about
"It's a prototype we are working on but we need more resources"
But before Don could say anything Reghys bent down to study the Object on Benedict's palm, feeling the hot wisp of smoke coming from the Dragon's nostrils Benedict and Arya went rigid and started to sweat in fear
"Are you trying to implement mage Ruger's theory on this device"
At the moment Benedict and Arya heard Reghys they were shocked and opened their mouths wide open in surprise
"You... you know about Romer's thory?" Benedict stuttered and misp.r.o.nounced words while he spoke in fear
"Yeah I know more than that like"
As Reghys said she started to explain magical theories and then some using her own knowledge and the memories she gained from her ancestors however except Benedict Arya and Reghys everyone who's standing in the hall scratched their head in confusion.
Don could see Benedict and Arya started to lower their guards against Reghys and discuss more and more without fearing as they did a moment ago with Reghys.
"Alright you three follow me " Don said as he walked towards the corridor followed by Benedict, Arya, and Reghys the people in the hall.
Eventually, Don entered into a huge empty hall. While entering the room Reghys realized she's too big as she shrank her size to
Enter the room without hitting the ceiling of the room.
"You can use this hall however you want and these" as Don said he flicked his wrist and his s.p.a.ce ring let out a small glimmer of light, in just a few seconds Arya saw a pile of magical stones and battle energy stones appear on the corner of the hall.
Everyone seeing the scene had nearly fainted because the magical stones he just gave were equal to millions of gold coins but noticing Don's face they were sure that he didn't care about it at all.
Benedict never had this much of resources for his experiments in his life until now, he had no idea what to do. Should he refuse or accept but before he could choose any Don called him
"Benedict you don't need to hesitate this project of yours is very important to me I don't care about these stones I need you to try your best and successfully complete this device"
While he was talking Catalie's projection appeared in the room beside Don as Don looked at Reghys
"Reghys you can go with Cat here and choose any room you want, Knight let's go"
Don didn't stick around to hear more lectures or answer of Reghys as he made his way towards the throne hall with the dwarves and elves leaving behind the energy workers alone.
After seeing Don's figure disappear Reghys turned her head and closely looked at the pile of magical stones he left behind and when she did that her eyes went wide and dropped her jaw a little
"Isn't these the stones he took from me?"
