CHAPTER 1146: CHAPTER 848: ALL RIGHT, I ACCEPT

Two days later, Saint Nidor successfully won the election and became the next king.

From that day onward, Reiger and Yuri also cast all their votes for him, making his victory completely inevitable.

On the day the election results were announced, led by the head of the Laitais family, who hosted the event, Saint Nidor ascended to the throne and proclaimed it to the world.

Originally, it shouldn’t have been this quick, but the situation in the Kingdom of Jinas was indeed dire, so the faster the king ascended the better. Hence, everything was simplified, and Saint Nidor took the Sword of Authority, wore the crown, and officially became the king of the Kingdom of Jinas on the same day.

On that same day, newly appointed Saint Nidor enacted many policies and penalties.

He appointed Saint Charlia Codrillon as the new Duke of Kedalion.

He appointed Kaliya Liat as the new Earl of Liat.

He appointed Kuhart and Boel as new Dukes of the kingdom.

The other nobles who supported him, whether from the Duke’s faction or the Royal faction, all received corresponding grand rewards; this was considered as credit for supporting the new ruler.

Besides, those nobles and royal family members from the Royal faction who had previously employed various unscrupulous means to prevent his ascension were demoted to commoners and exiled to the border, or executed on the spot and imprisoned.

With such actions, Saint Nidor, upon his ascension, made drastic changes that caused significant shifts in the power dynamics of the kingdom’s noble circle.

This shift was even greater than the previous one caused by Solok’s uprisings.

However, this time the change thoroughly stabilized the entire kingdom’s power sphere, appearing grand but effectively resolving the internal strife in the kingdom in a short period, greatly addressing the kingdom’s turmoil.

Thanks to this, the previously restless Leiblu Kingdom no longer made any major moves, only conducting small frequent probes to test the capabilities of the Kingdom of Jinas under the new king, while the smaller neighboring countries dared not move at all, fearing they would be settled by the recovering Kingdom of Jinas, thus ceasing all their previous small actions.

The turmoil stirred by Hemulinp’s death, the downfall of the Shadow Sword Saint, and Third Prince Solok’s usurpation, was thus decisively resolved through Saint Nidor’s series of actions.

This led people across the kingdom, including Reiger and Yuri, to privately sigh with relief that this king was indeed the right choice.

It’s worth noting that Reiger and Yuri also received honors.

Yuri, for aiding the Codelion Family during Solok Jinas’ machinations, was credited with helping the royal family, thus received permission to choose a secret treasure from the kingdom’s treasure vault as a reward, and could recruit guards from the kingdom’s knight order to replenish the combat strength of the Fränzel Knights.

Reiger was originally to be ennobled, able to step directly to a Marquis, the equivalent title as Yuri, but since Reiger refused the ennoblement, Saint Nidor decided to award him the Red Dragon Medal, and similarly allowed him to select a secret treasure from the kingdom’s treasure vault as a reward.

The Red Dragon Medal is the highest honor in the Kingdom of Jinas, unlike the True Knight Medal and the Sword Saint Medal, it is only granted to those who have made a tremendous contribution to the kingdom.

Since the founding of the Kingdom of Jinas, the Red Dragon Medal has only been awarded three times: once to an ancestor of the Bolelei family, once to an ancestor of the Muralijit family, and once to a Sword Saint who saved the kingdom from a crisis a hundred years ago.

Reiger is the fourth person to be awarded the Red Dragon Medal.

This was due to his slaying Solok, indirectly saving the entire kingdom, thereby obtaining such an honor.

Persons holding this Red Dragon Medal in the kingdom will enjoy the equivalent treatment to a Duke, and have the right to oversee the kingdom’s nobles. If they find a noble secretly harming the kingdom’s interests, they can execute them on the spot without reporting.

Additionally, a holder of the Red Dragon Medal, even if committing a capital offense, will receive pardon.

In other words, it is equivalent to possessing the ancient Imperial Sword and Immunity Token from Reiger’s previous life, enabling immediate execution of traitors without pre-approval, unaffected by capital offenses, representing the ultimate privilege among privileged individuals.

The Red Dragon Medal is a one-generation-only honor, and the medal’s privileges will be retracted upon the holder’s death.

This means that currently in the Kingdom of Jinas, only Reiger holds the Red Dragon Medal and thus only he enjoys such privileges, with his descendants unable to possess such great authority.

However, when the holder of the Red Dragon Medal passes away, their descendants can present the Red Dragon Medal to the current king, whoever that may be, and will at least be ennobled as Viscount.

This could be considered a form of descendant privilege.

To this, Reiger did not refuse.

Mainly because the right to oversee the kingdom’s nobles and the power to execute before reporting was just too appealing.

It is not that Reiger coveted power, but he clearly understood that with his current status and position, there were certainly many nobles secretly keeping an eye on him.

These people might want to win him over, or covetously harm him out of jealousy, or use him to achieve certain purposes.

They would not dare offend him openly, but it’s uncertain what underhanded tricks they might pull.

With the privileges of the Red Dragon Medal, Reiger could blatantly retaliate against these kingdom nobles without any hesitation.