On the last day of the Emperor's year 997, Rand spent his last day in the former residence of the Duke of Night Qicheng, and throughout the day, Rand and his wife, girls, family, and servants were moving.

Since Rand was confirmed to be the Duke of Nightqi City and was crowned King of the Galloping Horse at the end of the year, his core team moved to the largest king's quarters at the top of the palace under the auspices of Nila and Albert.

The last time he entered here, Rand felt that the entire residential area was arranged like a cruise ship, with a huge atrium connecting most of the rooms through more than a dozen floors, making the rooms inside the "cave" appear unusually spacious, and the sky roof at the top of the atrium was synchronized with the brightness of the outside of the palace with magic, giving people the illusion of being outside.

With the gradual opening of the palace area, many of the originally vacant rooms have also been converted into special rooms such as the room of the four-headed demonic beast, the large bath with magic patterns, and the entrance to the control lock and the teaching lock.

In addition, Rand also opened up two rooms and placed the Space Exquisite Ball as a teleportation room.

In addition to the increase in rooms, there are also more people in the palace than before, Daddy Huck, Uncle Albert, second brother Obot Gallope, and third brother Pelly Gallop have all been given special rooms in the palace, and the priests of the Furnace Builders, the orcs who take care of the Monsters, and the Magic Elves also have special rooms, not to mention the rooms reserved for Honey, Jenny, Edith, and Katerina, and of course, there are also rooms with meditation rooms for Ben Kaul, Gandalf, and Saranil.

In fact, whether it is Rand's family or guests, it is rare for all of them to appear in the palace at the same time, and the reason why the palace looks more popular than before is that the more than 200 attendants selected by Yuling from the slaves have completed their training and officially settled in the palace.

Among them, Nila, who served the royal family, was run by Nila, and Uffi, who was responsible for guarding the palace, was determined to be a knight of the court.

In short, more space, more people, and more complex functions are the biggest feelings of Rand moving into the royal palace at the top of Padmira Hill.

For example, his new room: the king's bedroom, with a total area of nearly 3,000 square meters on the four floors upstairs and downstairs, can be regarded as an independent palace rather than a bedroom.

The bedroom of the dormitory is located in the southwest, in addition to the luxurious queen bed, there are two large floor-to-ceiling windows, and the west facing the whole of Night Qicheng City, there is also a north-facing window, from which you can see the whole view of the elf garden.

When Rand himself explored the room for a while, he found that there were cubicles and secret rooms in the dormitory, and even a secret passage to the elven garden, as well as a separate secret room.

It is a pity that in the secret room belonging to the kings of the galloping horses, I could not find their private money, but I saw dozens of portraits hanging on the wall, and hundreds of stacked portraits, all of whom were women with beautiful faces and gorgeous clothes.

"Why do you still have my ancestors?" Rant picked up a photo of Halkala and another elven descendant, looked at the inscription on the frame, and probably understood the situation, "It seems that these dozens of portraits are the favorite concubines of the monarchs of the past." ”

"But in the 700 years of the galloping horse royal family, there should be a total of few kings, right? There are so many concubines. ”

Charles, the first restored king of the last Galloping Horse Kingdom, was already in his 70s when he ascended the throne, and the second generation of Philip became a king in his 40s.

"Kaul, Zhuoqin, Augustus, Douglas, Golden Moon, Red Dragon, Nicholas......" Rand constantly looked at the nameplates on the frame, almost all of them were from the top family names or families.

"I married the whole empire, but I didn't keep my kingdom, so I might as well marry a barbarian girl." Rant muttered.

"Rand? Rand? Where are you? Nila's voice came from outside the bedroom, "It's too big here, bigger than your old tent, how do you have to clean it?" ”

Rand searched for the voice and said with a smile, "It's easy to clean, just use wind magic to clean up the dust, but you gave me the inspiration to set up a tent in the hall, and occasionally I reminisce about the days on the grassland." ”

"Uh......" Nila couldn't stand it a little, "Okay, okay, don't think about it, there is a moon prayer ceremony at night, and then Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and the little cardinal said that you still want to celebrate the New Year with everyone?" ”

"Yes, tomorrow morning there will be a sacrifice to welcome the two yangs, and there will be a whole day of arrangements!" Lante smiled and touched his sister's forehead, "There's no way, if you move to the palace, you have to follow the rules." ”

In a world where there are gods, the sacrifice to the gods is definitely the most important thing in the secular kingdom, with the sacrifice to March on the last night of the previous year, the sacrifice to the two suns at the first sunrise of the new year, and the worship of all the temples, the gods of the human race, and the ancestors of the galloping horse family after dawn.

Fortunately, in addition to the royal palace, there are also shrines and temples on the top of Padmila Mountain, so you don't need to leave the palace for a whole night's activities.

As March rises to the top of the sky, a beam of moonlight falls on the circular altar on the south side of the summit of Padmila, surrounded by magical elves from all over the city.

Master Gandalf Merlin stood in front of the pillar of light, chanting aloud the Lunar Ode from the time of the Divine Race, while the priests and nobles of the city gathered around the altar.

According to the process of the sacrifice, Rand took a jar of flower wine as a sacrifice and sent it to the moonlight, and watched the wine boil and completely dissipate in the moonlight, before the ceremony ended.

The rest of the ritual is very similar to this one, which is to go to a special altar, offer a specific sacrifice, feel the gods eat the sacrifice, and then end the event.

The only exception was the ancestor sacrifice the following morning, when Rand took his retainers and a large family to the temple in Halkala to meet his living ancestors, and then returned to the temple at the top of the palace of Padmila.

And because Halcara was already over 200 years old when he married Philip, older than his father-in-law Charles, when Rand worshipped the king of Galloping Horses, he could not use the Hundred Flowers brewed by their "elder" Halcara, and could only use the second-class Galloping Horse wine.

However, even so, Halkala was still a little worried: "Hmph. What they said when they drove me away was ugly, and now how can they have the face to enjoy the potion wine brewed by my disciples? ”

When listening to Halkara's complaints, Rand always kept smiling, but he didn't dare to say anything, after all, both sides were ancestors, and no one was easy to offend.