In the morning I woke up from the system notification.

"System: The store is ready to open for your servants. The owner's confirmation is needed."

Am I the owner? If it's me, then give me a percentage of the sales.

"System: You are the owner of the system, but not the store."

It's a pity, but okay. Confirm. I said without hesitation.

"System: Confirmation received. Starting the launch."

Seeing this, I fell into a deep sleep.

...

PoV Andre

I slept peacefully this morning. But, I suddenly heard a ringing. I got scared and abruptly got out of bed.

- Enemies!? We've already been attacked!?

I went to the window, but everything was fine. But it seems I'm not the only one awake. There was noise from the neighboring rooms too. So I confirmed that I did not think it. While I was thinking that it was noisy, words appeared in front of me and a voice sounded.

"System: You have received a store as a reward for your loyalty."

The voice was cold and chilled to the bone. What it is, all that was in my head. I was scared at first, but then I realized.

I looked at the system and opened my eyes wide. It is easier to describe what is not here than what is here. While I was wandering in my thoughts, Elder Sean burst into my room.

- Andre, do you see it too? -He said in a surprised voice.

- You mean the store?

- Yes it is.

- Yes, I see the Elder.

- So you also see it. Everyone I asked sees it. It looks like a gift from the Master.

- It doesn't look like it, but it is. Let's go to him. We need to thank him. And solemnly swear that we will not let him down.

-You're right.

This event completely destroyed all doubt in the Lord's heart. He no longer doubted his master an inch.

He, the Elder, and the chief officials went to Augustus.

…

While I was sleeping, I felt someone's presence. I quickly got up and surveyed the surroundings. The most important people from the city came here. They bowed to me and Andrea started.

- My lord, we are immensely grateful to you for your gift. We swear that we will do our best. We will always serve you faithfully. We give you the oath of allegiance, please accept our loyalty.

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Are they so because of the store? Hmm, I think I would behave the same way if I met an archmage. Although I would be more disloyal. I looked at them and said.

- I accept your loyalty. Know that I will expect a lot from you. Don't let me down.

- We won't! We thank you for accepting our loyalty! They said in unison.

"System: The owner has accepted their loyalty. Their positions are automatically approved

Andrea gets the position of Lord of the city on Mount Tian. Now only you have the right to remove him from this position.

Sean gets a position as an Adviser. You are allowed to decide later what kind of adviser he will be.

Ben gets the position of Senior Official...."

Have they received approval from me and officially received the position? It's a chore. It's better to hire people later so that they hire talents. But where will they find the talents? Okay, I'll think about it later. Speaking of which, the system, how do I get contribution points?

"System: For ruling. The higher the standard of living of your subordinates, the stronger they are, the more they are, the more competent the leaders are, and how smart they are increases the number of contribution points that you get."

That's the motivation to build a good country. And a big country. Well, it's probably worth laying the foundation now, when it's just emerging. I'll definitely later make an official appointment ceremony as everything stabilizes.

"By the way, notify the dragonoids from the villages to send a couple of soldiers here in support. We need it."

- Yes master, I will send envoys for this.

...

There was a large city on the spacious plain. This city was called Brengs, the city that the first Emperor founded. This city is considered huge. It can accommodate 10,000 people. And the walls have resistance to spells of level 8, and the walls are built with the reinforced stone of rank 5. At the moment, peasants are coming here in huge numbers. There are about 8,000 of them. Every person in this world must learn to use a sword, spear, or other types of weapon to protect themselves. But the Brenga Empire forces everyone to undergo combat training, and they are called from time to time so that they do not forget how to fight in the war.

They have few regular soldiers, only 1,500. 1,000 of them will remain to defend the capital, and the rest are preparing to go to Mount Tian.

On the wall, one man was looking at the army. He looks about 40 years old, but his hair has already turned gray. An elder of 60 years old approached him. Looking at it it seems that it will fall apart at any moment

- Andrew, how is the preparation going? – Said the old man

- Counselor? Hello, everything is going well, we have 8000 soldiers, 500 elite soldiers, and 120 magicians, including 5 level 8 magicians. And all the others are no higher than 5.

- Hmm, we mobilized too few elites, why?

- The fact is that the Emperor believes that we can cope with such an army.

- Have you forgotten their Monster?

-That old man? Of course not, we have prepared a portal to hell for him.

- Is that artifact moving?

- It is.

-Take a transfer artifacts to the hell of the magician and the hell of the nimble.

"Only if the emperor approves."

- I'll make sure he approves. I need to take this just in case, otherwise, I have a bad feeling.

- If you, a war hero, have such a premonition, then I'm sure the Emperor will approve.

…

A month later, 4,000 men came to us. They all look strong and ready to fight. The castle is almost finished, so we sent women and children to different villages to wait out the war. In total, we have about 8000 people left ready for battle.

For the points, we have already bought books on medicine and military techniques. A couple more communication techniques. I did some research and realized that dragonoids are just as sensitive to hearing as dogs. And they can hear the sound of a dog whistle. This already makes messaging easier.

First I divided them into teams. Then I started teaching the commanders how to use the whistle. It's probably easier this way. I also made a couple of special whistles with slightly different sounds. They will be communication whistles.

Everyone is responsible for their territory. One to the west, one to the east, and so on. Since the castle on the mountain is relatively easier to defend. Preparations are in full swing and Sean has already reinforced the wall, now it has resistance to magic below level 5.