Capital City/ Family time
After the royal court meeting, the royal couple walked back through the regal hallways of the Palatine Palace, which sits on top of a hill overlooking Romus, the capital of the kingdom of Romanium.
Palatine Palace is a grey marble castle spanning the entire 2-mile-long hill. Within the palace grounds, there are many training grounds for knights scattered around the hill, allowing the royal guardians and the royal family to train to become stronger.
Mage Tower is a circular black and gold tower rising high in the air. It is also on the palace grounds, the home of the Court Mage, and where the royal mages train, live, and become more in tune with their elements.
Romus is a massive circular city that holds around 500,000 people. It is built around the Palatine Hill, where the palace is located. At the bottom of the hill lays the second circular wall with only one gatehouse, built over 300 years ago specifically to protect the royal family residence. Protecting this secondary wall are the royal guardians, all 10,000 of whom are housed near the main gate, ready to spring into action.
The royal guardians also patrol the second defensive wall and control who comes in and out of the only gatehouse of the second wall, keeping it tight and secure, protecting those within.
The royal mages, who typically protect the secondary wall, are also currently scattered around the kingdom, helping the rebuilding effort. Unfortunately, all 500 of them, excluding the court mage, are presently out assisting the rebuilding efforts.
Beyond the second wall lays the rest of the city, the Noble district, which houses the nobility and the rich of society. After this district, full of wealth, lies the rest of the town, which spans ten miles and is full of shops and housing many citizens of this kingdom. The city had barracks for the city garrison at each gatehouse on each side of the capital, housing 500 men, each offering protection and security to the citizens.
Within the city, many were still celebrating the birth ceremony and the speech given by their beloved king. The streets were lined with red ribbons, and food was handed out to the citizens free of charge. Bards from all over sang and strummed their pan flutes in the festive atmosphere, signing tales from heroes long ago.
The taverns were full of people taking advantage of the one-free-drink rule to celebrate this occasion.
On Palatine Hill, deep within the grey marble palace, sat at the top of the hill, the royal family was gathered together, surrounding their newborn baby, who had just woken up.
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Julius POV
I slowly opened my eyes, remembering the dream I had about dying, meeting a joke god, and reincarnating. As my eyes became fully open, I noticed two young, regal-looking people staring down at me. 'Huh, they look like my new parents from my dream.'
"Ah, he's finally awake, my baby boy," Aurora said as she picked me up.
"Don't hold him too tightly, my dear. We don't want to hurt our little heir," said Junius.
Suddenly, it dawned on me that my dream was true, and I had died and transmigrated to a world full of magic and mystery. 'This is amazing, this new world, magic. It's going to kill me to be stuck as a baby for a couple of years.'
"Waaahhh, weeehhhh." Julius cried out as he was attempting to communicate to his parents.
"He's hungry, and we need to feed our bundle of joy."Stated my father as my mother picked me up, ready to feed me.
Five minutes later, once they had finished feeding me, my father took me out of my mother's arms and sat down with me in his arms. My mother then sat opposite.
"My son, I know that you are young, but let me explain our family to you. My name is Junius Kraser, and opposite me is your beautiful mother, Aurora Kraser. We are both 33 years old. Unfortunately, both of us come from commoner families, and we're lucky that we turned out to be talented, both having silver talent. This allowed us admittance into the Royal Academy, which is where we met.
Because we have silver talent, I have reached rank 4 Twaller Knight in the early stage, and your mother is a rank 4 Master Mage, also within the early stage of this rank.
I am the King of Romanium and have many duties to attend to each day in an attempt to repair and rebuild the kingdom after the revolution we led against the tyrant royal family. Currently, we are surrounded by enemies on two sides, and our economy is struggling.
One day it will be you that will lead this kingdom but until then i will protect you with everything i have. This is all you need to know for now as you are just a baby, i will explain it in more detail when you are older." Said my father
"Ahah," I said as I tried to acknowledge my father.
"You will grow into a fine young man, my son." Said my mother
"What are we going to do about the political marriage offers we have received from the ancient kingdom of Hesper." Asked my father.
'No, I've just come to this world. You can't think of marriage immediately. Let me enjoy my privilege as a prince,' I shouted in my mind.
"How about we consider it when he is a bit older? He's only just been born at the moment, and we are not nobles who sell their children for benefits," my mother replied.
"HAHA, you are correct in that we are no born nobles who only care about profit." Joked my father. "On a more serious note, I plan to make talented rank three Mage Caspian his personal bodyguard. We have many enemies, and he will need protection. Many people don't believe in our new way of life and want it to return to the chaos we were in before." Said my father
'A bodyguard is awesome; I'm a prince. What about a beautiful maid?' I thought
"Let's allow him to enjoy the first couple of years of life before the real work starts. Julius has much to learn, and his responsibility will be many in the future. Let us hope that he has high talent so he can protect himself." Stated my father.