Seeing that they now silently approve, Matthias smiled, "Okay. Then, that is settled. We will travel throughout my territory once I decide to do so."


    "Yes, Your Majesty." The people nodded reluctantly.


    "Are there any pressing matters regarding the management of the empire?" After a brief period of silence, Matthias asked the people below.


    "Your Majesty.." One of the officials spoke, "A messenger from the Tanaka Shogunate of the South was sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to alert us that one of their princes ising to our territory as an emissary to congratte us on uniting ournd. What shall we do with it?"


    "Tanaka Shogunate?" Matthias pondered, "Is there any information about them?" He asked.


    "Your Majesty, the Tanaka Shogunate is home to excellent individuals. They are incredible masters of the arts of sabers, bow, andbat. Excluding their expertise, they are also honorable and distinguished individuals who know and respect etiquette even if they are of lowly birth. I have been once in contact with an individual from thatnd. He was extremely respectful and bases his judgement through a series of methods." The Master of The Mystic Arts and one of the Four Pirs, Sigien Brunhilde, replied respectfully.


    "Are they?" Matthias nodded in understanding, "Then, if they are here with good intentions, wee them with wide open arms, and if they''re not, wee them still. Show them the development of our territory." He said.


    "Yes, Your Majesty." The official nodded.


    The discussion continued for another ten minutes and after that, Matthias dismissed the officials. He then went to his Imperial Bedroom. Looking at the room closely, Matthias admired the room. The room has a simpleyout. Before reaching the bed, one needs to pass through a bead curtain hanging from an arch-shaped room divider. Two chairs are arranged neatly at the right side of the room. A chinese canopy bed is ced at the end of the room, one bedside table at the left and right side of the bed and the chest at the foot of it.


    With a color palette of imperial gold, ancient brown wood, bright red, and jade green, the atmosphere inside wasn''t as suffocating as other imperial rooms where the feeling of impending doom is always present.


    He then went to the chest and opened it. He then remembered that he was so focused with fixing the affairs inside the territory and either stayed inside the throne room or training, he forgot to create clothes for himself, which made himugh helplessly.


    He then proceeded to create his clothes. The clothes were separated into two types; Imperial wear and casual wear.


    He then fixed the imperial wear neatly inside the chest and left the casual wearying on the bed to pick.


    He then smiled as heid his eyes on the one he picked and ced the other clothes neatly with the imperial wear.


    He raised the garment that he picked, a clean white and ck simple hanfu. To also fit his current style, he made his hair reach the half of his back.


    He wore the clothes and tied his hair up using a hair stick made from 1,000 year-old Oriental Ironwood that he nted in Cain, the realm where he nted and nurtured all types of different nts and animals that is rich in God Qi.


    The hair stick has dragons and phoenixes engraved on it with the symbol of the sun at its top.


    He then looked at himself using his mental energy. He saw a handsome 24-year old looking man with his hair tied on a small bun with long hair cascading down his back. Matthias pondered a little bit and conjured a 22-inch han jian sword and strapped it on his waist.


    Matthias then nodded with satisfaction and secretly left the pce and roamed his territory.


    He has already nned his identity for theing journey.


    His temporary name is Han Jianyu, and his identity is of a military man and a son of amon family. He has already asked ck with his cooperation and informed a couple under the Order of The ck Crow to pretend to be his parents.


    He left the capital and rode a horse that was prepared beforehand and traveled to a small town west of the capital.


    He then went to a vige where his "family" is supposed to live.


    "It''s been a long time, son!." When he arrived in the vige, he was weed by two people. One was a middle-aged man with his hair tied in a ponytail, a muscr body and chiseled face, and a 35-year old woman whose face hadn''t changed even when time passed and as if she was just a 20-year old woman. Her long, ck hair cascaded down her shoulders. It was evident that she was even more beautiful in her early days.


    Knowing what they are doing, Matthias smiled, "Yes, Father and Mother. It has been a long time."


    The woman''s face was filled with joy and held Matthias, "Come,e,e! Let us go back to our home!" She said with heartfelt joy and motherly love.


    The man ced his hands on his hips andughed wholeheartedly, "That''s my son Xiao Jianyu! Come!" He shouted.


    While walking home, people from the vige greeted them. "Is that your son, Little Qiaoyi?" An elderly woman asked.


    Matthias'' "Mother" nodded sweetly, "Yes, Auntie Shan. This is my son Xiao Jianyu. He has been away for a long time. Before we started to live here, He was taken care of by his uncle in the capital and has been a soldier since he was 15 years old."


    "How young! It''s been hard on you, Little One." The elderly woman called Auntie Shan patted him with care.


    "It hasn''t been that hard, Auntie Shan." Matthias helplessly nodded.


    (Author: Hey guys. I told you that I was going to take a short hiatus but I can''t stop myself from posting another chapter. I still don''t have sufficient chapters to update everyday, at most I can only do once per week. I hope you could be patient. If you want to contact me for some reason, you could message me through the ounts in the updated synopsis that I made. See you next week!)