Chapter 92: Wealth That Could Rival A City
Two months ago, Watson had defeated more than ten manors. When the other manors nearby heard the news, they sent people to deliver generous gifts to Blackmoon Castle.
There were hundreds of manors of all sizes at the border, and Watson had only eliminated more than ten that had infuriated him. What about next time?
After they learned about Blackmoon Castle’s strength, the surrounding manors fell into a panic; they feared they would become the next cornerstone of Blackmoon Castle’s expansion.
More than 50 manor owners had sent gifts, and they were all very generous as the gifts included weapons, ores, and magical beasts. In addition to the resources that Watson had originally obtained after the battle—12,000 iron-tier magical beasts, 1,000 bronze-tier magical beasts, 1,000 sets of iron-tier armor and longswords, 100 sets of bronze-tier defensive weapons, more than 100 pieces of jewelry, and a total of 20-,000 gold coins.
It was an unimaginable amount of wealth.
According to the fusion system, ten ordinary iron-tier monsters could fuse to form a common bronze-tier monster, while two elite monsters could fuse to form one. Fortunately, the quality of the monsters was not bad.
After he fused the monsters, Watson had already obtained 5,000 silver-tier two-winged ligers, of which 4,000 were fused with the Golden Flash to transform it from a six-winged golden chimera to a twelve-winged golden chimera; its strength had reached the peak of gold tier.
After all, the more he fused magical beasts of the same type, the more difficult it was to improve them. Watson expected to fuse another 5,000 beasts with the Golden Flash before it could break through to platinum-tier. There was no need to rush that matter.
After he solved the problem with the magical beasts, Watson began to fuse his weapons. Just like magical beasts, there were also differences in the quality of weapons.
Silver-tier weapons could easily improve those with poor quality, and there were 300 sets of silver-tier equipment in the castle. In addition, there were 50 pieces of high-quality equipment, all of which had been upgraded from bronze to silver-tier armor. Fifty Blackmoon Knights were equipped with one piece of equipment each, while the rest of the regular silver-tier equipment was used for training. It did not matter even if they were damaged.
Watson only needed to consume a certain amount of ores to deal with the damaged silver-tier equipment. After he fused them, he would be able to restore them to their original state. He was prepared to wait until the winter to sell those ordinary silver-tier pieces of equipment; he would sell them to the nearby manors for 50 gold coins each.
Typically, a bronze-tier weapon could be sold for ten gold coins, and a silver-tier weapon could be sold for ten times that, so 50 gold coins was a meager price. Blackmoon Castle had already developed to a particular scale, so it would not be reasonable to expand it so rashly before it was stable. It would be better to build a good relations.h.i.+p with the nearby manors and form a business alliance.
He had already promised more than 50 manors that Blackmoon Town would officially open after the winter season. At that time, each manor would be able to buy their own land and build their own shops to improve the town jointly.
“Watson, Zenoah and I have always been proud of our business ac.u.men. But, now, it seems that the smartest person in our family is you! Using force to intimidate others into becoming your allies and offering them good choices on time—only you can think of such a method.”
Zeke enjoyed the ma.s.sage from the maid; his eyes narrowed comfortably. He could not help but sigh when he heard that.
“I didn’t force them. After all, the other manors are also profiting from this. They can buy many things in Blackmoon Castle! For example, the silver longswords that we produced. Even if they are inferior, they can earn 50 gold coins by selling them for 100 gold coins. In the entire border, I haven’t heard of anyone who can ma.s.s produce silver weapons,” Watson explained with a smile.
It was because of the fusion system’s advantages that he could buy low and sell high. He could sell things that others did not have but wanted; it was a way to curry favor with them.
Blackmoon Castle was able to build a magnificent wall that covered tens of kilometers in two months. It could not be done without help from the various large manors; only a few of them knew of Blackmoon Castle’s strength. He believed that after the news spread out, the entire border would be under his control, and it would only take a few years to realize Watson’s expectations.
The border count had also not said anything since he made such a big move in Blackmoon Castle. Perhaps he was busy preparing for winter and did not have time to pay attention to him.
Initially, Watson had been on guard against the border count and often acted cautiously. Then, however, he had gotten bolder.
“Watson, tell me, how much a.s.sets do our family have now?” Zenoah asked curiously.
“Let me think.” Watson rubbed his chin. “Excluding Blackmoon Castle itself, we have one million gold coins, 50,000 Rainbow Phoenix Chicken eggs, 1,000 silver-tier magical beasts, and two gold-tier magical beasts. There are still four, oh, no, counting the ones that we just made for Allen, we now have five gold-tier equipment, 50 high-quality silver-tier equipment, and more than 200 ordinary silver-tier equipment.”
“What about the men?”
Zeke added, “How many people are there in the castle now?”
“We have 5,000 people. More than 3,000 of them were from the defeated manors. They included five mages, 50 Blackmoon Knights, and more than 20 maids. The rest are mostly farmers and laborers! Oh, right, I forgot to mention that due to the integration of more than ten manors, we now have 1,500 acres of land in Blackmoon Castle. All of them are planted with crystal wheat. When the winter ends, and all the wheat ripens, we will sell them for a large sum of money.”
Watson rubbed his fingers and drew the shape of a gold coin.
Zeke and Zenoah looked at each other and gasped at the same time. They had expected that their family was rich, but they did not expect they had become so wealthy.
Zeke said, “With so many things, we should have at least a few million gold coins. Does that mean we are now millionaires?”
Zenoah asked, “As rich as a country?”
A few months ago, his family was still thinking about which day of the week they would get to eat meat. They searched all over their house, but they could not find a single gold coin. It seemed like they could fill the castle with gold coins after Watson affected all those changes.
“Not to that extent. Perhaps as rich as a city.” Watson smiled. Blackmoon Castle’s total a.s.sets were no less than that of an ordinary n.o.ble. He had started a concrete step in the world, and he would only go further in the future.
“ThirdBrother, Fourth Brother, the ma.s.sages are almost done. It’s time to take a bath. Or do you want to…” Watson glanced at the lower parts of his two brothers as he spoke with a mocking expression.
The two maidservants who were ma.s.saging Zeke and Zenoah blushed and said considerately, “Young Masters, do you want us to serve you further? There’s a room outside the bathroom.”
“Perhaps that’s not a good idea.” Zeke grabbed his bathrobe embarra.s.sedly.
“There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s our duty to serve our masters,” the older maid said gently. She took Zeke’s bathrobe off.
It was their job to serve others, and it was an honor to serve the castle master’s older brothers.
“Then, we’ll take our leave first.” Zeke and Zeke were half-pushed and half-led out by the maids. Watson slid into the bath alone and enjoyed the hot water. He opened his arms and said, “My brothers have been holding back for a long time. Let them enjoy it. I can also enjoy my own happy time.”
For a child his age, what was more pleasant than taking a bath alone?
There was nothing else.
“Young Master, we are here to help you take a bath.”
He heard a gentle voice as the bathroom door was pushed open; two beautiful figures walked into the bathroom slowly.