While the nuns were raining havoc upon the poor necromancer, Gojo was back in his kingdom setting a whole festival. With a single order, he rallied lords and nobles from all the kingdom's lands, persuaded merchants to visit, and even dragged pilgrims and monks into the mix. Hundreds of thousands of people marched across the snow, melting it just by existing as they approached the capital.
The capital's street buzzed with life and the royal guards ran around in panic, doing their best to keep the people in order. The king had made a drastic decision, using his powerful magic, he had emptied half of the royal treasury's gold and dragged it into the training ground of the knights.
