Chapter 922: What did you just say?
Chapter 922: What did you just say?
Two days later, we were all gathered in the throne room.
Since most of the ministers of the former Midra Kingdom had been executed because of the former second prince, that meant that we had to get replacements for them.
The former second prince who was currently the regent was the one that picked them out.
They were all nobles that had been scattered around the country, who had been ignored by the previous king because of their lack of wealth.
For the previous king, the only ones that received positions were those that were able to afford bribes. As long as the bribes were big enough, they would receive a prestigious position in the capital.
That was why there was so much corruption in the former Midra Kingdom’s government.
Those people were greedy people who only cared about their own benefits, they didn’t care about the good of the people.
That meant that they didn’t even have the skills to work in the positions that they held. This was the main reason why the former second prince had been so busy in the first place.
He had been the one that made up for all those incompetent people that had been in those positions.
Naturally, it was impossible for him to do this all on his own since he was just one person. There were too many departments for him to take care of all on his own.
So there were already people that were trained to take over the positions that had been emptied because of the executions.
But these subordinates of the former second prince weren’t the ones that took these positions.
These subordinates of the former second prince weren’t nobles, so they couldn’t take these positions.
The noble caste were still in charge in this world, so it wasn’t as if commoners could just take positions like this.
That was why the ones that took these positions were nobles summoned from around the country.
They were partly figureheads and they were partly department heads since they knew what they were doing. But in the end, it was the subordinates of the former second prince that would be doing most of the work required.
This meeting that we were currently in was just for them to report to me what the current situation of the former Midra Kingdom was.
Since my kingdom had taken over the Midra Kingdom, I should at least know what was happening in these lands.
But for the most part, I was just bored.
This wasn’t the kind of thing that I dealt with in the first place, so it wasn’t as if I could make heads or tails of most of the things that they presented to me.
I had some idea because of my modern era education, but there were just too many details for me to understand what was happening.
Most of this would be left to the prime minister when he came out to supervise this place.
Since we had taken over, naturally a message had been sent to the prime minister who would come here to supervise the takeover. He would work with the regent and organize how these people would fit into the departments that ran the Kite Kingdom.
Though judging by the letter that the prime minister sent back, it didn’t seem like he was happy that I had revealed my identity when taking over.
He stated that Klein was more than enough of a representative to accept this surrender and that there was no need for me to personally do it.
But it wasn’t as if this was my idea.
It was the regent’s idea to do this kind of handover since it seemed more official.
One could say that this was the only trap of the regent’s that I had fallen for.
It was already too late to regret it, so I could only accept what happened and move on.
Though the consequences of my actions were a bit…
Well, it was just sitting here and listening to their reports, so it wasn’t considered that bad of a punishment.
It was just a bit boring since I had no idea what they were even talking about.
After a certain point, it almost seemed like their words were blending together and I wasn’t really hearing anything that they were saying.
At that point, I figured that I had sat there long enough that I could stand up and leave without a problem.
But before I could…
“New material has been detected. Host, please obtain a sample for the system.”
“Huh?” I was frozen the moment that I heard this.
This was a voice that I hadn’t heard in a long time since it had acted like a dead fish this entire
time.
But there was no mistaking this voice since it was a voice that only I could hear.
Not a single other person in this room reacted to this voice since they couldn’t hear it in the first place.
Even without that, it was a voice that I would never mistake since it was a unique voice that didn’t belong in this world.
It was the mechanical voice of the system.
I had to sit there in a daze for a few seconds to react to what the system had said, but then I quickly said, “What did you just say?”
Everyone in the room was shocked to hear me suddenly speak up like this.
I had been fairly silent the entire time, so they had just been going about their reports like it
was normal.
The one who was currently up there reading was someone from the department of land management who was reporting on the various resources of the kingdom.
He didn’t think that he did anything wrong, so he was shocked to hear this and a bit afraid.
The regent said, “Your majesty, if there’s a problem, we can…”
I raised my hand to stop him before saying to the person reporting, “Just read back what you said earlier, I missed something.”
It seemed like everyone let out a sigh of relief when they heard this, but they didn’t let their
guards down yet.
“The ores that we have in abundance are iron ores, copper ores, void ores…”
“Wait, what are these void ores?”
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