Skill Extraction: Exploring Dungeons-Chapter 640 - 563 The Ceremony Begins

Outside the Platinum Palace at this moment.

No longer desolate as it was a few days ago, a massive city has already formed encircling the exterior of the Platinum Palace.

This was prepared for the common people arriving for the upcoming coronation ceremony. Originally, Kane intended to build a large temporary town to accommodate these long-distance travelers.

However, Heideline denied this idea, suggesting that Kane and others' Platinum Palace was too far from all the towns, despite being at the center of the map.

This distance would make many people feel too distant from the King of Platinum, so a city should still be constructed near the palace to serve as the capital.

Upholding the requirement to build a capital, Kane directly used his creative authority to construct a large city.

Of course, he only created a general framework, and the details would be added by those who settle in the capital.

The larger and more superficial the construction, the less detail required, making it easier for Kane to build.

For example, the capital in front of the Platinum Palace, which Heideline described as needing to be built grand and spacious, leaving more space for future use and modification.

Kane then created various gigantic wonders, with the entrance of the city directly crafted into a massive half-open stone gate about forty meters high.

The stone gate is carved with various patterns, depicting the stories originally unfolded on this land that Kane collected.

The massive stone gate, permanently half-open, could be entirely opened or closed if enough strength is applied.

Connected stone gates, three in total, lead straight to the city's central square.

The central square is the city's hub—a vast circular open space with enormous wing-like sculptures resembling city walls around its edge.

Two pairs of carved wings semi-encompass the entire square.

Around the square stands one giant stone pillar after another; they're simple stone pillars constructed specially as per Heideline's requirements, for purposes Kane doesn't know.

The rest are ordinary houses built quite plainly but leave enough space for residents to imagine and modify their appearances.

Many vacant spaces are left in various areas for future use.

These ordinary houses are entirely sufficient for the arriving common folk.

The entire city can accommodate far more than 100,000 residents.

"Is Kanske's Steel Wings unit ready?"

At this moment, in the town's central square, Heideline is questioning the surrounding administrative staff.

A female of the Alien Race, with small horns, answered from the side, "Commander Kanske is ready."

Heideline nodded, "That's good, what about the band? Are they ready? You must know it took quite an effort to gather them, are the pieces ready?"

"No problem, Prince Lilulu helped and trained them."

"Is that so? That's good, the others…"

The administration office of the whole square, countless government employees are busy making final preparations for the upcoming coronation ceremony.

They are the only ones among various races and existing intelligent life forms with management experience and ideas.

They are considered a group of smart people who can clearly see the current situation.

They all understand that although their Majesty doesn't care much about this coronation ceremony, they must do it perfectly with all their hearts.

Thinking of this, they couldn't help but look up at the palace floating in the sky surrounded by clouds and mist.

That would be the residence of their current monarch.

For the coronation ceremony, Kane slightly moved the palace forward to the square and lowered its height slightly.

Kane is currently inside the Platinum Palace, with many of the Moon's Child besides him.

Many Moon's Child hope to become guards by Kane and Kreya's sides.

Upon their request, Kane reluctantly agreed, selecting some Moon's Child to serve as guards at the Platinum Palace.

The leader of the guards is naturally Mo Yi, who followed Kane first.

Mo Yi came over to Kane at this time, carrying a stack of luxurious clothing.

"Your Majesty, this is the attire sent by Lady Heideline, saying that you need to wear it to appear more dignified."

By now, Kane was entirely leaning on Cotton Candy, looking exhausted.

There are too many things Kane needs to decide for the coronation ceremony, including knowing some relatively tedious ceremonial details.

This is excessively burdensome for Kane, who originally fears trouble.

Beside him, Kreya walked up to receive the attire from Mo Yi and examined it carefully.

Covers her mouth with a chuckle and says, "Kane, this attire looks quite nice, want to try it on?"

Kane rolled his eyes at Kreya helplessly, waving his hand to refuse.

The main issue at this coronation ceremony is to draw out the Golden Bridge and eliminate it.

The coronation ceremony is merely secondary, and if the Golden Bridge is destroyed during the coronation ceremony, restoring this world's original form would also elevate Kane's reputation to higher levels.

Thinking of this, Kane said to Mo Yi, "Just tell Heideline that I've prepared a set myself."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Mo Yi then carried the clothes in her hands and floated out of the room.

Only Kane and Kreya were present in the palace at this time.

Lilulu herself is very fond of lively settings, let alone a grand celebration attended by more than 100,000 people.

Compared to Kane, perhaps most of the common folk are more familiar with Lilulu now wandering throughout the banquet setup area.

She will help with environmental arrangements and assist the orchestra with training, and even directly brought out her Fairy Tale World's animal orchestra to join.

However, her main responsibility is actually inscribing Magic Runes on the city's various extravagant buildings.

The reason Kane built the city walls, gates, and surrounding plazas so extravagantly was to give Lilu a better environment for inscribing.

Longbei, who was once part of the elite troops of Furnace Castle, is now helping many soldiers with simple training and etiquette, ensuring they maintain their vitality.

In reality, more is spent checking whether the banquet's drinks meet the standards.

Due to the hundreds of years of war and the suffering it brought, food still suffices, but the banquet drinks are entirely insufficient; most were purchased from outside by Kane via the Guild Hall as a midpoint.

Meizike is currently making some potions that Kane will need afterward.

Kreya leaned down and kissed Kane on the cheek, "I'll be off now, my dear majesty."

Then, she blinked her eyes and left the palace.

At the moment, Kreya has other duties; she still needs to inspect the work of the thousands of chefs, many of whom can only cook.

Although most of the dishes they make were taught by Kreya and are simple yet delicious, Kreya needs to guide them more closely.

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Outside the massive stone gates, countless civilians are pouring into the Capital.

There are many soldiers at the gate maintaining order, with several staff members helping these civilians find temporary accommodations.

All the civilians are amazed at the Capital's three gigantic stone gates and the embossed carvings upon them.

And at the plaza surrounding the area with gigantic sculptures of Flying Wings.

These brought them great astonishment.

Everything here is brand new; it's completely evident that it was built recently. This is a brand-new city.

Currently, tables are set up all over the city with drinks and Delicious Food, available for everyone's free consumption.

There are no more kings here now, nor is there war — no more conflicts will bring suffering and death.

Everyone sings and dances, engaging in joyful conversations, drinking merrily.

Perhaps they were once enemies due to different camps.

But now, they are united as citizens of the Platinum Country, working hard to restore their homeland and the world.

As time passes.

"Dong! Dong! Dong!"

There is a gigantic stone tower in the plaza, with a huge Copper Bell hanging at the top.

A floating Moon's Child is vigorously ringing this enormous Copper Bell.

The bell's body sends out crisp sounds, reaching the entire Capital, clearly audible to all within.

This is the first time the Copper Bell has sounded.

The three bell rings signify the coronation ceremony officially beginning.

All citizens of the Platinum Country flock to the streets and follow the crowd toward the plaza.

Between houses, flags are hung, and various colorful streamers sway in the sky, and do not fall to the ground despite gravity, continuously dancing in the air.

Many of the world's remaining animals also arrived around this time.

Birds of all colors fly in the sky, greeting the golden light and the floating streamers.

Around the plaza, musicians from various Races have already taken their unique instruments, joining the small upright animals in performing.

A little gray rabbit in a suit stands on the conductor's podium, directing these musicians as they play along with the rhythm.

The plaza is large but still not enough to accommodate over 100,000 people, so some overflowed people stand on the streets surrounding the plaza.

Even though they're not inside the plaza, it does not affect their view of the coronation ceremony.

Because the coronation ceremony's platform floats in mid-air.

All civilians need only tilt their heads slightly to see the coronation ceremony's proceedings clearly.

With over 100,000 present, the plaza is extraordinarily noisy now.

Once the residents almost all gather at the plaza and its surroundings.

The rabbit on the conductor's podium lowers its hands, and all the music comes to an abrupt halt.

With the grand music vanished, the human interaction sounds become overwhelmingly noisy, and faced with the present situation, everyone involuntarily shuts their mouths and quiets down.

A golden beam shines down from the sky, directly illuminating the platform of the coronation ceremony in the air.

As the light fades, a flag with a white background and golden bridge symbol appears on the platform, and a group wearing white robes trimmed with gold and the Golden Bridge symbol emerges on the platform.

They are the long-awaited Golden Bridge Church, and at this final moment, they have finally made their appearance.

At this moment, on the palace's higher ground, Kane stands by the edge, watching the scene below.

Longbei and others stand behind Kane, and besides them, Sofina stands next to Kane.

The platinum-colored Scepter floats in front of Kane, touching Sofina's forehead following Kane's thoughts.

Platinum-colored light gushes from Sofina's body.

"A little blessing, considered as my help and recognition to you. Use it well."

Kane says as he and everyone else ride Cotton Candy down toward the platform.