City of Desire [Kingdom Building]

Chapter 204: Monster Horde

Chapter 204: Monster Horde

“Baroness Leila had sent this,” said Lola, and placed the file in front of me. I nodded and opened the file.

It is a file on the inventory of the monsters, or rather what becomes of them after we had sent it to her.

Leila acted fast, seeing the opportunity in the danger. She had set up a monster processing plant, in her territory.

Where the killed monsters would be cut, cleaned, sorted, and stored. To preserve the magic in them before selling them to the merchants.

It had been sixteen days since I had come back and since then; we have killed three hundred and seventeen monsters.

One hundred and twenty-two were killed by Blackwell’s people. All these monsters have gone to Blain for processing.

The sooner the monsters got processed; the more magic gets preserved. Especially in their blood and meat. The hide, horns, bones, and nails didn’t need to be preserved to keep the magic in them, but it was always better to do it.

Monsters are valuable, and these were pure monsters, not the beasts we use who have some monster blood.

Thankfully, the Count has agreed to let us have everything we get from selling the monsters.

The monster attacks increasing with higher numbers every day. Major Jarvis feels that there will be an attack without a doubt, and it will be soon.

We have made as many as preparations we could, but we could have done better, with a little more help.

Still, it is quite surprising that despite the monster threat. The trade hadn't slowed down. It had instead increased and now, every day, three caravans are coming to the town.

Which, in turn, made the merchants and nobles invest more heavily in town.

More stores, inns, warehouses, and other businesses are popping up in the town. The fourth tranche of plots sold like hotcakes three days ago and they wanted more.

The Count wanted me to sell all plots together, but I am selling them in steps, and every time, the rate of those plots would double at least; the last tranche gave a quadrupled rate.

70% of those plots sold are being developed; I am only selling to those who want to develop them.

There is only a small quota for people who are buying it as an investment.

The trade is increasing at a much faster rate than I thought. If it kept increasing at such speed, it would reach the needed amount, much sooner than I had thought, and I would be able to return to the Greltheaven.

The power is intoxicating, but I miss my business.

Even now, I want to go back to the city and see through every change that happening, and I might have gone. I had planned to make another trip in the middle of the month, but with this monster threat, I couldn’t go anywhere.

‘Master Silver. Miss Valentina is here,’ said Jill through the intercom. ‘Send her in,’ I replied.

Click!

The door opened, and she walked inside.

“How was the trip?” I asked. “It was good. I had mostly slept through the night,” she replied as she sat in front of me.

“You can take a rest if you want,” I said, to which she shook her head. “There is no need,” she replied.

“A lunch then?” I asked, to which she nodded.

I took her to the kitchen where we had lunch, before walking out of the keep and sitting on the carriage. It is an open carriage; it would be better suited for our job today.

It is a formality. The last inspection and she will be done.

The road is finished and also the extra work I had given to her consortium. Today, I will be checking the roads with her, before signing off on the progress.

I had already inspected the work, and this would be just a few hours of carriage ride in nice weather toward the boundary before coming back to the castle.

“The town is developing well,” she said as the carriage rode through the town. “It is. The trade is going well with the Oksall, and it is attracting more people and investments,” I said.

The town now has over seven hundred people as official residents.

“We are thinking about developing a quarry in Baron Wilson's territory,” she said softly while looking at the town.

“Is quantity big enough?” I asked. “We have done some tests; the amount of stone it is big enough to be worth the investment,” she replied.

“Then you should buy it. The way the trade is developing. The stone will be in high demand,” I gave my views.

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