[SYSTEM NOTIFICATION: SOVEREIGN TERRITORY ACQUIRED! INSTALL 36 “80-POINT MORALITY TOLL GATE ARRAYS” ACROSS ALL FOUR CITY WALLS FOR 500,000,000 SUPREME SPIRIT STONES?]
Confirm, Lin Mo tapped the floating prompt without a second thought.
Holding the gleaming bronze Azure-Mist Sovereign City Seal in his right hand, Lin Mo stepped onto the raised stone platform outside the bazaar. He turned toward General Meng Tie (Goodness: 96), who stood at attention with his twelve-foot golden halberd.
“General Meng,” Lin Mo said, his voice carrying clearly over the cheering crowd of three thousand townsfolk and five hundred border soldiers. “For ten years, you guarded Azure-Mist Border City without taking a single dirty copper coin. You even pawned your own ancestral armor to keep fifty thousand refugees alive.”
Lin Mo tossed the bronze Azure-Mist Sovereign City Seal and the Tiger Tally straight into General Meng’s newly regrown left hand.
“From this moment forward, I’m appointing you Lord Marshal of Azure-Mist City,” Lin Mo announced. “All honest soldiers in the garrison with a Goodness score of 80 or higher get an immediate fivefold salary raise. Plus, Taichu Finance will cover all four months of back-pay that Cao Kun embezzled.”
General Meng caught the heavy bronze seal with both hands. His scarred face flushed red with emotion as he dropped to one knee on the cobblestones.
