Volume 7 Chapter 52 - New World (1/2)

A cold wind blew past and Russell, who was moving fast, felt a chill. He couldn’t help shivering and digging deeper into his clothes, while also moving faster towards the deepest part of the royal palace.

Seeing his majesty’s exclusive study that was several hundred meters away, Russell gave a secret sigh.

On such a cold day, he wanted to stay in his room and enjoy the warmth of the Magic Air Conditioner. He wanted to drink some hot black tea while enjoying the scenery of the newest «Overlooking the Sines Continent» produced by the New Moon Chamber of Commerce, but now he had been forced to come to the royal palace that was several kilometers away from his house. He really did suffer for this.

It was a good thing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had developed the warm and fast Magic Sedan, so he didn’t need to spend that much time on the road and he wouldn’t make his majesty unhappy by waiting too long.

But when he entered the royal palace, he didn’t have a convenient tool to use and could only rely on his legs to walk over.

The Candra Empire royal palace was the biggest building on the continent. To show off the power of the empire, any place in the royal palace had a distance of several hundred meters or even a kilometer between them. Russell had taken a full twenty minutes to come from the entrance to the emperor’s private study that he had been called to, which could even be considered a small jog.

Thinking of this, Russell suddenly thought of something else.

It was said that the manager of the royal palace had once suggested that if the royal palace had the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s Magic Elevators installed, it would save quite a bit of time when moving through the royal palace. It would also save his majesty quite a bit of effort from moving around the royal palace.

But this clearly very practical and easy to use suggestion was denied by his majesty.

Although his majesty had given the reason that this would cost too much and it wasn’t worth it, after Russell had seen the complex terrain of the royal palace, he suddenly felt that this wasn’t the real reason why his majesty had rejected this suggestion.

In order for the Candra Empire’s emperor to remain aloof, the royal palace was built on a mountain that was very high up, which meant that there were differing levels in the royal palace. For example, from the main hall to his majesty’s personal study, it was over several hundred meters, but there was also a height difference of several dozen meters.

This kind of complex terrain made it difficult for people to go through the royal palace, but it also made it very easy to defend and it was quite good when it came to security.

His majesty refused to place Magic Elevators that would go up and down mainly because he was considering this.

Of course, perhaps there was also another reason. The emperor had been stressing to the ministers in court that they had to develop the Candra Empire’s own magic machine industry, trying their best to decrease their reliance on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

Him refusing to install the Magic Elevator that only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had, wasn’t this considered setting an example?

But Russell could understand the emperor’s ideas and he felt that the Candra Empire as one of the two empires, having such a large country rely on a small Frestech Chamber of Commerce for many things was unacceptable. But when it came to certain things, he had to admit that they had no choice but to rely on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

For example, the urgent matter that his majesty had summoned him to discuss, it was impossible to avoid the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

When he met the emperor, he was currently standing by a wall in the study, looking at a giant map of the Sines Continent that was hanging there, as if he was considering something.

Hearing Russell come in, the emperor didn’t turn back as he directly said, “Russell, come and take a look.”

Russell quickly gave his coat to a maid before heading over.

“Your majesty, I’ve come late. Please forgive me.”

Emperor Candra shook his head and picked up a thin stick before pointing at where the Candra Empire was on the map.

“Russell, do you see this? Our Candra Empire can only occupy this amount of space on the Sines Continent.”

Russell looked up at the giant map. The piece that represented the Candra Empire, which was clearly the largest country on the Sines Continent, took up one fourth of the land on the continent. His majesty still felt that this was small?

Of course, as the emperor, he would never feel that the land under his name would be too much.

Perhaps his majesty wanted to incorporate the entire Sines Continent under his rule.

“Your majesty, as long as we keep up our efforts and increase our national strength, our Candra Empire will become stronger and stronger.” Russell said in a deep voice.