The kingdom of Eridia has been very busy, ever since I was crowned. The country's coffers are emptying steadily, as there are multiple projects being carried out simultaneously.
The biggest one of them being, the construction of a new capital city, Rhongomyniad.
The project is certainly the boldest and most extravagant undertaking yet.
I've been planning on building a capital and a palace, ever since I was prime minister. Now that I can finally make it, I'm not holding anything back.
The whole project will cost us about 50% of the entirety of the royal coffers.
Considering the huge amount of wealth we have amassed, this amount being spent on a city is not just a bit much. It's absolutely insane!
The amount of wealth I'm pouring into it's construction is enough to buy a few small countries.
The reason it's so expensive is very simple. The materials used to build the palace are all of high quality.
Around half of the palace will be constructed with different magic ores and precious metals. Even the normal materials are all picked out to be on the expensive side.
The architecture of the palace will be absolutely stunning. I'm aiming to make the best palace in the world after all.
A literal heaven on earth.
A place befit of a god...
Also because I want the palace and the city to be completed in only 20 years. The workforce is another hole to throw money at.
Millions of people are working on it's construction. If you count in the logistics, transport of the materials, food and tools as well... It's a black hole of recourses.
Another project I'm working on is the selective breeding project. This is a secret project, that hasn't technically started yet.
Right now they're only constructing the building for it.
The project in essence is an experiment. I will pool together all of the best of the different races and have them breed. Then they will train themselves rigorously and I will continue breeding the best of the best. I want to see if I can create someone outstanding over a thousand years.
I'm also putting a lot of money and focus on hiring scientists and researchers into my country. The technological level is pretty low and I want to change this. This time I will enjoy the comforts of development.
I'm also changing the country into a meritocracy. Obviously I'm facing resistance from the nobles, who inherit their wealth and power. However I need to do something to light a fire under their lazy asses.
Though it's a better system than the aristocratic system. Meritocracy also has it's problems. The most prominent being the worship of strength.
If I won't actively govern the change, then without doubt, my country will turn out like that as well.
So the way forward is to implement what I call a shadow axe. Make a bottom threshold where no matter what position you hold, if you fail specific standards, you get booted.
Though how exactly I'll implement this system is still a work in progress...
Right now I'm sitting on the throne, in the audience hall. Wearing the same black and gold dress I wore on my coronation. With a golden crown on my head. Looking down on some fools, with a bored expression.
"P-please you majesty. Give me a chance!" The fool pleads, while kneeling a little distance in front of me.
"You were caught embezzling money and drug trafficking. I don't see a point in listening to you. You are stripped of your belongings and executed. Carry it out immediately." I drawl out, while supporting my head on my hand.
The fool in question right now is a count, that was making some suspicious moves.
I had him investigated and found some interesting things. It seems an infestation is taking place in my kingdom.
Today is the day I'm cleaning house.
As soon as I give the command, one of the knights steps up to the count. Without hesitation he draws his sword and chops off the count's head, right then and there.
A wet thump is heard, as the count's head falls on the ground. His decapitated body spraying blood. The knight sheathes his sword and steps back into his original position.
"Next." I call out. Not caring about the bleeding corpse in front of the platform my throne is on.
The guy who's in charge of the audience hall doors nods to me and ushers in the next person that has a meeting with me.
The next one is also a man. I don't know what he did, or who he is, but that's what the guy beside me is for.
"Your majesty, this person is the leader of the biggest gang in the capital, Leonardo Dicaprio." The man beside me informs.
"Mm." I mumble as a sign of awknowledgement.
I remember calling all the gang leaders for a meeting with me. After all I need to regulate them. I could have them disappear, but what then? I'm not so naive to believe that I can suddenly abolish all gangs.
Gang leader Leonardo walks up to the podium and stares at the decapitated corpse for a second. Then makes the correct choice and ignores it, while kneeling in front of me.
"Greetings, your majesty." He says with a strong voice.
For a few minutes I don't say anything, just lazily gaze at the man who's kneeling and looking down.
"...Raise your head." I call out. He immediately does so. I see his eyes widen a bit as he looks at me.
"Leonardo I called you here today to lay down certain rules that you must implement for your gang. What do you think about this?" I speak.
"I think it is natural that you do so. I had a deal with the previous king as well." He responds. His response causes me to smirk.
"Of course I know about that. I was the one who told the previous king to make the deal with you after all..." I say with a smirk.
Leonardo is a pest of the worst kind. The only reason he has been walking around alive right now, is because I wanted credit for getting rid of the gangs.
We discuss the new terms and then I send him away. I didn't make any changes to the rules. But I did put him on the task of expanding until his gang is the only one remaining.
I proposed a deal to him in the new capital I'm constructing. Since Leonardo is a man I can get along with and a kingpin. Why not have him handle all the underworld troubles in the new capital, as a pseudo government worker.
Of course, all of that is bullshit. After he becomes the ultimate kingpin, I'll get rid of every gang in one swoop.
Actually, not all of it is bullshit. Leonardo really is a pseudo government worker. He'll round up all the cockroaches into the oven. Then I'll just throw him in as a bonus, as I burn them all to death.
It's genius!
"I'm so amazing..." I accidentally mumble out... Or perhaps intentionally.
"Pardon me, your majesty?" The information guy beside me asks, as he didn't hear me. Stupid humans have dull hearings.
"Nothing. Next!" I call out.
The next one to enter the hall is another man. As the first one, he is similarly a criminal and gets decapitated as well.
This trend continues, until there are no more people scheduled to meet me. By the end, the floor is covered with so much blood, that the last ones were kneeling in it.
A healthy amount of over a dozen corpses is in front of me. All criminals, all executed.
Why didn't I execute them in a separate place? All to declare to the next ones that losing your life is all too easy.
"Dismissed." I announce and walk down from the throne. When I pass the knight who did the executing, I throw him a gold coin and say. "Good job."
I uncaringly walk over the bodies, my heels stepping in the puddle of blood. It's like I don't even notice the bodies. It's like they're not even there.
I walk out of the hall, not knowing that this action and similar actions in the future, will start a rumor. That will give every person who will walk into the audience hall subconcious anxiety, for hundreds of years to come...