As night fell, everything proceeded smoothly. Long queues formed outside all the open shops.
Knights maintained order, while puppets guided citizens in getting their identity cards.
Amidst the citizens' shocked and curious gazes, each person left the shops with satisfied smiles, carrying their new identity cards and bags of food. Many were poorly dressed children, even some demi-humans.
Here, anyone who wasn't a slave could enjoy citizenship and its treatment.
Some tried to cause trouble, like stealing others' food or bullying demi-humans. Takeru had those people arrested to enjoy free prison meals.
With these examples, some ill-intentioned people behaved themselves. Takeru knew this was only temporarily suppressing them with force.
Where eyes couldn't see, they might still bully others.
Even Takeru couldn't completely eradicate this, but he could reduce such occurrences and punish those who committed such acts.
After all, with slave crests, judging someone was incredibly easy. Even without using his special methods, Takeru could interrogate others.
As for abolishing slavery outright, it wasn't so simple. Actually doing it would require a lot of work.
Also, as eight o'clock arrived, up on the stage Takeru had created, lights shone. Many court ladies performed music and dances.
What had previously been a spectacle only for nobles and officials was now visible to ordinary citizens. Many felt a great sense of satisfaction...
Finally, Takeru prepared many special fireworks. This celebration was truly an epoch-making one.
After overseeing the events for a while, Takeru took Emilia and the others back to the palace to handle governmental affairs.
As for Filo, she was completely immersed in the celebration, beside herself with joy. Takeru had Via and Chelsea keep an eye on her, then let her play.
Raphtalia and Rifana wanted to help Takeru more, so they followed him back to the palace to learn about handling governmental affairs from Takeru and Emilia.
Although it seemed like there was no return from spending so much effort transforming this country, that wasn't the case.
The most basic benefit was that changing the fate of many people would significantly increase his evaluation score.
Also, as the country improved and grew stronger, Takeru's gains could be great. Whether special magic stones or monster materials, better conditions meant greater harvests.
Another point was that this workload was time-consuming and laborious for ordinary people, but for Takeru, it was nothing. Even a single shadow clone could handle it.
Besides that, Takeru was also somewhat curious about what Mirellia's reaction would be when she returned and saw the greatly changed kingdom.
Would she choose to go to war with Takeru or submit?
And so, amidst the busyness, a week passed. The Dawn Empire had completely entered its proper course.
Whether it was recruitment or talent acquisition, many had been gathered these past days.
Also, during these days, Takeru opened shops almost daily, ranging from common weapon and potion shops to less common taverns, massage parlors, and decoration shops.
The appearance of facilities like hospitals and schools meant ordinary people didn't need to rely on somewhat expensive potions for treatment.
There were also places for unified learning, where one could learn cultural knowledge, martial arts, or magic.
Takeru also established a special reporting agency to accept reports from commoners against nobles.
In the past few days, many people from across the empire had come to report cases. Most were commoners far from the capital who could no longer tolerate the exploitation of local lords, similar to Idol's previous situation.
For these matters, Takeru had Akame and Kurome primarily responsible. Their strength, along with the army of dragon slimes Takeru had given them, and some selected knights, made judging these cases very easy.
Furthermore, Takeru began having roads paved. After all, for true development and growth, roads were essential. Only by building roads could the entire country be connected, rather than having lords like Idol each ruling their own domain like kings.
However, the roads would pass through wilderness. Takeru had Miki, Beatrice, and Via, along with a group of slimes, primarily responsible for road construction safety.
Of course, aside from providing combat protection, some specially evolved slimes produced important materials needed for road construction, like cement and brick.
There was also a special adhesive slime that produced a special adhesive. Covering the roads with this could effectively increase their strength and lifespan.
In short, within just one week, the royal capital had almost completely changed. Takeru's popularity quickly soared, earning him the respect and praise of the people.
Takeru hadn't been idle either. He used this time to review all the magic books in the kingdom's collection and further developed his Holy Sword.
He also crafted many crystal orbs with sealed skills. Of course, he had also mastered the method of making crystal orbs.
With the raw materials, he could create them quickly, even simply using the Holy Sword.
Because once he mastered the production skills and methods, having the weapon absorb the materials allowed for automatic creation.
The raw materials for crystal orbs also required magic stones from this world and a special type of ore. The magic stones from this world were somewhat different from the magic ore stones Takeru had brought before.
However, after being devoured by slimes, both could be mass-produced. The other common ore was likewise.
That meant, if Takeru wanted, he could mass-produce crystal orbs for sale in the Reincarnation Space.
Also, the Holy Sword had a special transfer skill, similar to teleportation. It could fly to a previously recorded location.
However, compared to Takeru's space movement, it had no particular advantage. The only benefit might be that it didn't consume mana when he and his party members transferred.
Besides that, following Naofumi's example of developing the shield's abilities, Takeru had the Holy Weapon, the sword, absorb many monster corpses. This allowed the Holy Weapon to transform.
Each type of sword had completely different abilities. Of course, some were useful, others less so.
Many were very ordinary attack skills. However, even ordinary skills, when released by Takeru, were incredibly terrifying. Of course, they meant little to Takeru.
Besides these, there were also many practical auxiliary skills. One he was very satisfied with was the Medicine Sword, evolved using medicinal herbs.
When transformed into the Medicine Sword, picking herbs would enhance their quality. Besides herbs, it also benefited ordinary fruits and vegetables, whether by increasing their mana concentration, enhancing their deliciousness, or both...
Besides this auxiliary skill, there was also a modification skill. This skill allowed for the modification of plants.
This modification differed from creation magic. Modification could specifically alter plants. The most basic use was to increase fruit yield and nutrition.
Besides the basics, there were more difficult modifications, like transforming ordinary plants into spiritual plants.
With further development, Takeru could even modify the spiritual plants he had previously created. The direction of modification could be flavor or enhancing the fruit's spiritual energy.
After staying in the empire for seven days, Takeru prepared to go out to level up today.
After all, Emilia and the others were looking after the empire... Takeru didn't need to worry too much.
Perhaps due to Mirellia, the Dawn Empire hadn't been harassed by other countries in these days.
Of course, it could also be that news hadn't spread that fast, or they hadn't reacted that quickly.
Whatever the reason, it wasn't a problem worth worrying about for Takeru. If anyone dared to cause trouble, it wouldn't be Takeru who should be worried, but the other side.
After all, these days, Esdeath happened to be complaining about having too much leisure time.
However, these days, shadow guards had occasionally returned to the royal capital.
The moment they entered, Diablo's clones detected them. Diablo would then bring them to Takeru or directly take complete control of them.
As for Motoyasu and Itsuki, after experiencing Takeru's illusions, they took three days to rest before perking up a bit.
However, they were still very dejected, feeling afraid and untrusting of people around them.
Takeru didn't care about this outcome. After their punishment ended, he let them leave the royal capital. Where they went from there, whether they lived or died, had nothing to do with Takeru.