CHAPTER 45: GREAT CITY, SELENE

When each of the eleven people signed, Kevin assigned several servants to show them the businesses.

These people and their families, who had been deliberately kept in inn-style places for four days, could now have beautiful homes and businesses they could run.

Of course, this only covered eleven businesses.

There were hundreds of businesses established in the city, which could still be seen as a ghost town in every sense of the word.

Luke’s next option would be to fill the smithies, but the problem was... There was no one in the city with a gift for blacksmithing.

Luke was, of course, in favour of assigning people with sufficient experience even if they did not have the gift, but that was for other jobs. Blacksmithing was a completely different matter. This place, which could turn into a hunting city in the future, had to be filled with the highest-level blacksmiths.

Everyone knew that a warrior without a sturdy sword would be defeated and killed.

However, Luke had no choice but to put this matter aside for now, and throughout the day, he managed to fill dozens of businesses in the city by hosting dozens of people in his room and signing dozens of contracts.

There was at least one business in every field, from bakers to toy makers, and from toy makers to painters.

Outside, Luke was doing his best to keep everyone warm in the bitter cold.

Even though he was doing his best, homeless children had already begun to appear in just a few days, just like in the capital. It was a truly terrible sight.

Luke had, of course, established orphanages. There were now three orphanages in the city, but even that was not enough. Luke knew, of course, that the people who would come to the city walls would not all be of the highest calibre or possess the finest gifts.

Still, as always, Luke had a soft spot for children. He hated it when older, adult individuals did not work and instead relied on the church’s assistance, but he always felt sorry for children under the age of eighteen.

Not everyone was born into a good life; they were not wealthy, and their families were not composed of good people. Luke believed that since he was fortunate, he could share his luck.

At least with kids.

That was precisely why he had given Kevin the necessary orders.

These orders were to have every orphan on the street work in the businesses he had directly given to Valentina and gain sufficient experience.

He didn’t stop there and also stated that they could work in his mansion regardless of their race or gender.

By the end of the day, it would not be an exaggeration to say that almost no businesses remained vacant. Luke had carefully selected each person, and everything was completed once the city was fully populated, that is, once it could accommodate the thirty thousand people Luke had calculated.

The ghost town had now transformed into a blessed city.

[Great City, Selene]

Immediately afterwards, Luke wanted to start making the city’s personal flag, so he entered the closed large greenhouse in the snow-covered mansion garden and set up a work table.

The area was filled with paints, sketchbooks, white and paintable flag materials, and many other things.

Luke had already adopted the empire’s flag and projected Hiera’s symbol onto the streets from the Moon Stone on the city’s ground.

The real task was to have an actual flag.

Luke could see that larger buildings and houses were beginning to open up along with the locks on the newly opened shop panel. Even strange architectural designs he had never heard of before were beginning to appear before him.

Massive villas made almost entirely of glass and more.

Of course, this also meant that in the future, he could build an even larger mansion or even a small palace within the city.

The flag of Selene City should be one of the two flags at the top of the palace.

Luke naturally already had a good system in place. He wouldn’t change much. He just wanted to make Hiera more visible.

The Hieras worshipped Nyx. More accurately, the Chaos-Born. Still, this worship did not mean they lived for it; they were not the Church of the Night right? After all, the Hieras were of high lineage. Though they were not made of gods and goddesses, their blood was valuable.

Still, Luke wanted to embrace this topic more fully, so he spent the entire night doing one thing. He had been drawing dragons and phoenixes in different positions on dozens of white flags, constantly, without stopping, until he could barely blink his eyes.

These dragons and phoenixes were standing directly around a star, surrounding it in such a way that they seemed to be drawing a circle with their bodies.

The star was naturally white, the dragon was black, and the phoenix was red.

Luke had turned night into day, and the sun had begun to shine through the open wall in the middle of the area where the backyard was, that is, towards the river, onto the greenhouse window, and then onto Luke.

Luke had finally completed the flag of Selene City.

When Luke finally managed to fall asleep, he slept for the entire day and woke up again at six in the morning.

He was still in the small bed he had set up in the greenhouse, and when he quickly came to, he straightened up and looked around.

Thanks to the shop panel, he had been able to create a flag design and had completed the flag by carefully copying the drawing itself.

He then put the flag into mass production, collected dozens of them in his inventory, and, with Kevin’s help, distributed the flag throughout the city.

The flag was now flying in many places, including the centre. He had hung both the Hiera flag and the Selene flag on his mansion, with the Hiera flag slightly, very slightly, below the Selene flag, clearly showing who the city belonged to.