The next day, in my study, I was listening to Don's report.

It's about the knight selection.

Don asked me about the massive knight selection that is bound to take place in the reign of the new emperor, how to do it and the criteria for the test.

It was on a larger scale, but the knight selection itself is something that we do every year.

The proposal Don put together was easy and unpleasant.

"Um, that's the basics"

"Something to add?

Don read between the lines of my words and listened back.

I snort quietly.

"The final stage of the selection is to be seen immediately."

"Yes, it also means giving His Majesty's favors to the Knights candidates"

"Let's look at the top 100 and the bottom 100 in the selection."

"I know the top, but the bottom... does that mean the bottom 100 people?

"Oh."

I nodded clearly.

"Why is that?

"Talent is pointy."

"Ha..."

"Normally, only people who look alike or stop by come up. So I want to see that by normal standards, it really doesn't work."

"I see."

"Genius and I managed to be paper heavy, but if ordinary people saw it, it wouldn't be paper heavy, it would be bipolar. And."

"And?"

You still got it? Don with a face.

"The rest have been in government for nearly a decade under His Majesty the Emperor. We know bribes are rampant there in the usual knight selection."

……

Don prayed and didn't say anything.

It is his position that there is or cannot be said to be.

So I replied that there was some kind of acquiescence.

"I hate bribes thoroughly and my confidence that I can handle them on my own is something that the recipient hates and I can lower my grades. That's why they're the bottom 100."

"I see...... that's just great. We missed you."

Don looked heartily impressed and bowed his head again.

"I understand. As His Majesty said, I will list 100 people from up and down as final candidates."

"I know you do, but it's confidential to take the bottom line."

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Shortly after he became emperor, he remodeled the mansion's study.

It's no different having my desk in the best place, but I also made Don's seat close to the entrance.

Don is there based on my orders to make a note, or clear a book, and then I mark it.

I think about it even more as I watch Don make the paperwork.

People are treasures, and possibilities.

Seeing the bottom 100 is to bet on that possibility.

I was wondering if there was anything else.

I thought as I melted the snow water and sipped the superb tea I had brewed.

I stare at Don.

I wanted more guys like him, figured out how I could find him.

……

"Please confirm, Your Majesty... Your Majesty?

Don, who came back with a draft of his book, stared at me with a strange face.

"Hmm?"

"Is there something on my face?

"You weren't a knight."

"Ha."

"I was trying to figure out how to find more men who aren't from knights like you. Perhaps it would be more convenient to put him inside the knight selection."

"Civilians during the knight selection...?

Stunning Don.

Sounds like my words sounded so shocking.

"Oh."

"That's... unheard of. In the first place, knights are..."

"I know. The Empire promotes warrior kingdoms, martial arts talented human beings to knights - the annual knight selection, isn't it?

"It is so good to see you. Because it's a tradition."

"The massive selection of the new emperor reign is both a tradition and a special case"

Apart from this selection, another routine selection will take place during the year.

I say we get a whole lot more immediately after the new emperor takes office.

"If it's a special case, even if it's a little unprecedented, what's the problem? Something - well, let's test it, let's get the literary people up."

"But then... can't it be as it has always been"

……

I grinned.

"If we remain in the current system, it will take time to promote the civilian population. Right?

Don nodded quietly.

"Unlike knights, young people don't come out first. Especially the bold, free-thinking young man. It's all middle-aged people who get into the rest of their eyes and they're all round where they're used. I want it from the stage of possibility."

"... I see"

I thought about it a little bit.

I understand Don disagrees.

but I'm an emperor.

Even against tradition, it's the emperor who can push the sidelines of what he wanted.

I can push through the unscrupulous thing of tripling all taxes starting tomorrow, taking a literary figure is no big deal compared to that.

"It's a decision. Make sure the literary people can pick it up. I want a little more talent."

"Thank you... that's just great"

To my determination, Don stared at me with a hot look like he was impressed.

Literary selection is unprecedented, so even if it is a draft, it takes time.

I threw it at Don, and I left the study to keep my thoughts out of the way.

Leave the palace and enter the royal palace, accompanied by the gran of the abdominal heart officer.

The path I took, both soldiers, women and eunuchs, all put their jobs at hand and knelt down and bowed their heads until I passed by.

He came to the treasure trove of the royal palace with all the respect and awe of the emperor.

"Wow... wow..."

Before the mountainous treasures, Gran just admired them.

"If you like it, do you want to take one?

"Yes!? Yes, no! If you get this amazing, your life expectancy is going to decrease."

"It's not about greed."

I smiled slightly and walked appropriately through the treasure trove.

I came here before when my father gave me the Ruthier - now the Bahamut.

I remembered that time and came to see if there was any other treasure.

Yes, treasure.

I want treasures that increase my abilities, like Leviathan and Bahamut.

I'm the emperor.

Now, I won't let anyone complain about bringing up what I want.

So I went around the treasure trove and looked for the real treasure.

Looking closely at the treasure, take it and see if there is any change in the status that is always in the corner of your vision.

There was no fluctuation at all.

So you're saying there's no such thing as a ruthier left...?

I took the little jewelry box I had at hand.

There are five gems on the lid, but nothing is fitted right now.

It was an incomplete treasure to see, and I thought that wouldn't improve my abilities, so I tried to put it back where it was.

"Is that it?"

"What's up, Gran?"

"The mirror in that box... there was a gem that was exactly the same (,,,,,,) shape as that earlier"

Gran said clearly, "Exactly the same."

His memory is well known.

"Where? Get it."

"Yes!"

Gran turned back the way he came, and after a while he came back bummed.

He has a blue jewel in his hand.

I took it and looked at it comparing it to a jewellery box, and Gran was right about the jewellery and the blemishes were exactly the same.

When I tried it on - it filled in surprisingly smoothly, as if sucking.

"Well done, Gran. I'll reward you later."

"Thank you!

"Was there anything else?"

"I didn't."

Gran ran out of words.

Excellent memory, land prices around Almeria's mansion, and this jewel thing.

If this is the kind of Gran you can pay attention to for me, I'm pretty sure you haven't seen it yet.

"Then look for it."

"Yes!"

Gran found it exactly as I ordered.

Together, I searched around to see if there was anything left to fill in the four remaining lumps.

"There was. Your Majesty!"

Gran immediately found the red jewel and brought it.

Take it, fill it out, it just fitted the box just like it did earlier.

When this happened - I must have it all, I became more and more convinced.

Gran and I have been searching around for about an hour.

"Now you're all set."

Fill the chest with the last gem.

It was originally a luxurious box, but when all the gems fit in, one more thing, the divinity began to emerge.

Now the change in status is - the next moment.

"I command you."

Bahamut's voice was heard in his brain.

I don't know what to order.

"... come on, do it"

I won't make a futile claim. I decided to leave everything to Bahamut.

At the next moment, the body of the Bahamut - the light popped out of the bracelet where the ring was housed, bent along the way, even though it would be or light, and sucked into the red gem that had just been put on the box.

The red jewels glowed so brightly that they lit up inside the treasure trove.

Then, one after the other from Leviathan, Behemoth, Huwa, and Apopis, I heard the same as Bahamut.

I ordered you to do it even more.

The light popped out of the bracelet one after the other, glowing one filled gem after another.

Eventually, all five gems glowed - the next moment.

The lid of the box opened on its own, with feather decorations in it.

"I couldn't wait."

I heard voices in my head.

And that's not all.

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Name: Noah Alert

Empire Emperor

Gender: Male

Level: 15 +1/∞

HP C + C fire E + S

MPE + C water C + SS

Force C + S wind E + C

Health D + C ground E + C

Intelligence D + C light E + B

Spiritual E + C Dark E + B

Speed E + C

Dexterity E + C

Luck E + C

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The wind "+" went up two steps in an instant.