Chapter 295: Chapter 11: The Grand Ceremony Begins, Dragon Race Promotion Ceremony

On this day, the Star Empire’s founding ceremony finally began!

Three days prior, centered on the Imperial Capital Central District, layers of steel framework had been laid over all the residential buildings in every district.

These steel structures were automated, allowing them to deploy and retract. Thus, when viewed from high above, the entire Imperial Capital now resembled a single, smooth platform of steel.

As the construction of the steel platform was completed, numerous hatches were opened from below.

Thus, in the next moment, a ceaseless stream of people began to pour onto these steel platforms!

From the Human residential districts, naturally, came only humans.

The same was true for the Elf, Beastman, and Sea Race residential districts.

Swiftly and in an orderly fashion, dense crowds of the Empire’s citizens from every race appeared on the platforms above the Imperial Capital.

Those who could fly did so in an orderly fashion, arranging themselves in rows and columns in the low airspace above their respective districts.

Meanwhile, those who could not fly watched the ceremony from the steel platforms.

This entire process took nearly three full days.

After all, the Imperial Capital’s population was immense. At this moment, over two hundred million citizens of all races were gathered here.

Therefore, even with the Star Empire’s central AI assisting, planning viewing positions for every district, and constantly reminding each citizen where to stand, some chaos was inevitable. After all, this was the first time the Empire’s citizens had participated in a ceremony of this magnitude.

However, thanks to the AI’s real-time monitoring and coordination, the chaos was minimal. Every citizen even had a personal wrist device that gave them precise instructions on their positioning. As a result, the preparations for this grand ceremony were completed within three days.

Logistics like food, water, and sanitation were not an issue.

After all, eight years had passed since the AI’s integration. During that time, the Star Empire had done more than just use the AI and its Intelligent Mechanisms to renovate the entire nation.

With the AI’s R&D assistance, Imperial scholars and many High Tier Mages had also invented numerous highly efficient food products.

Products like compressed rations and Magic Power Pills had been developed long ago.

Therefore, with these supplies being distributed, there was no need to worry about basic necessities over the short three-day period.

As for the citizens who had the power to levitate, the Empire ran the Magic Towers in the Imperial Capital District at full capacity to offset their energy expenditure.

High Tier Magic Crystals were poured in as if they were free.

As a result, the concentration of Magic Power throughout the Imperial Capital during these three days reached an incredible peak.

For the citizens of the Imperial Capital, the ceremony and the abundant Magic Power were a twofold blessing.

Over the three days, the enthusiasm of the nearly two hundred million Imperial citizens, from commoners to High Tier individuals, never waned.

In fact, as the day of the ceremony drew near, the citizens grew even more ecstatic.

Finally, the long-awaited moment had arrived!

Just as the first light of dawn broke over the eastern sky, high atop a tower more than a thousand meters tall in the center of the Imperial Capital—in the very area that was once the Mountain City—Founding Emperor York Smith appeared at the forefront of the grand viewing platform, accompanied by Empress Lucia Callum.

Also in attendance were the members of the Emperor’s harem, along with over thirty princes and princesses.

The moment they appeared, swarms of drones, long held in readiness, suddenly activated across every district of the Imperial Capital, casting enormous holographic projections!

The projections, of course, displayed the scene of Emperor York’s appearance.

The Star Empire’s Imperial Capital now spanned over 100,000 square kilometers; without the projections, the so-called ’grand ceremony’ would have been a complete joke.

After all, the Edge District was hundreds of kilometers from the city center. Even High Tier Transcendents couldn’t see that far with the naked eye. Therefore, the ceremony naturally had to rely on the technology of the Intelligent Mechanisms.

Simultaneously, across the entire Karte World—in all eighty-six Religious Country Districts and even the Demon Beast Independent District—projections of the Empire’s opening ceremony also appeared.

Meanwhile, in the central region of the Empire, below the Empire State Building, the figures in the very front row were, without a doubt, all at the Saint Tier.

Their numbers approached two thousand.

Over ninety-five percent of them were Divine Favored—in other words, Players. The remaining five percent were native Saint Tier individuals from the various races.

That’s right—nearly every Player from both worlds had come for the Empire’s grand ceremony!

At this moment, these Saint Tier Powerhouses were all seated upon their designated Silver Holy Seats.

But they were clearly not all. Behind these Saint Tier Powerhouses stood over six hundred thousand High Tier experts.

Among these High Tier individuals, eighty-five percent were Divine Favored Players, while the native races accounted for only about fifteen percent.

Like the Saint Tier powerhouses, they were all required to wear standardized silver uniforms bearing the Dragon Totem.

At this moment, all the High Tier and Saint Tier individuals gazed solemnly at the high tower. When the opening ceremony’s drone cameras swept over this assembly of powerhouses, the atmosphere throughout the Empire instantly ignited!

"Empire Eternal!!!"

"Long live Your Majesty!!!"

"May Your Majesty, the Dragon God, reside eternally within the great sun of the Star Sea! Everlasting prosperity to the Star Empire!!!"

"Everlasting prosperity to the Empire!!!"

"..."

When one excited Imperial citizen began to shout, a tsunami of roars quickly swept through the crowd like a tidal wave!

From a bird’s-eye view, the ocean of sound and cheers was so powerful that it even created visible ripples in the dense magnetic field of Magic Power over the Imperial Capital.