Chapter 774 5. City Lord's Mansion
Orphanage
Ivana Ser stood next to Cathy and bowed to Annan: "Thank you for sending Cathy back."
< br>"You're too polite, Annan is my father." Cathy pulled the little follower up.
Looking at those firm blue eyes, Annan suddenly felt as if he was talking to an adult.
Annan remembered that he arranged for this "smartest person in Liberty City" to study with Ingrid. He didn't know what Ingrid taught her, but obviously, it was not good for a 10-year-old child to be exposed to the adult world. It's bad...
"Lord Annan, even in Middle-earth, very few children can grow up healthily..."
It seems that I can feel it from those pity-filled eyes. What, Ivana explained, "The children are very grateful to you, and we all hope to grow up quickly and help you..."
"Uh-huh!" Cathy echoed.
"Then we have to wait a few more days." Annan said with a smile.
After seeing Cathy off, Annan returned to the City Lord's Mansion after walking around Liberty City.
Holding Lily, Annan asked the maid Abby to notify Aunt Susan, her family and others to come to the city lord's mansion for a dinner.
Laila came back not long after. She heard about the dinner and was upset that she would not have put back the fish she caught if she had known better... enough to make a plate of fish sauce.
In the evening, in the restaurant of the City Lord's Mansion, people familiar to Annan were sitting on both sides of the long table.
They talked freely in this rare gathering, talking about the girls brought back by Annan, the Freedom Cup in a few days, and the Kingdom of Ruikan'er.
Regarding the former, those girls are good girls and have no bad intentions.
In the middle, Annan asked Martin which side of the three legions he wanted to stand on? Martin replied: The winning side.
Finally, when talking about the Kingdom of Ruikan'er, Fast said: "With all due respect, it will be too late if we don't do something about them."
"Indeed, the Kingdom of Ruikan'er was raped If people occupy it, there will be no chance of starting a war.”
The restaurant was full of laughter.
After the dinner, Annan returned to the bedroom, leaned in front of the window sill, gently stroked Lily, and looked at the brightly lit night view of Liberty City in the distance with some pride.
It only took a year and a half... to turn a tidal flat into a brand new city.
Knock, knock, knock—
A knock on the door suddenly sounded.
“I’m not here!”
"Lord City Lord, there are some things that you need to deal with."
"Lily, tell Ingrid that I am not here."
"Meow Meow!"
Click——
The door handle turned, and then Ingrit, holding a financial statement, opened the door and walked into the bedroom.
Annan couldn't help but pick at Lily, they had no respect for themselves as the city lord! The faction headed by Olmedo must be punished!
But then, Annan had an idea in his mind that Olmedo left Liberty City with his clansmen and vassals, and he hugged her legs and begged not to leave...
Shaking his head, Annan He took the financial statements with a proud face.
The first thing that comes into view is Liberty City’s finances for the first five months of this year.
Monthly financial growth is rapid, and there are still some explosive periods - June with "500 Years of Shock" will also be an explosive period.
Behind the income are expenses marked with red numbers... As a result, Annan found that the monthly balance did not exceed four digits!
“How can I earn so much money?!”
“It’s all spent.”
Annan quickly flipped through the financial statements and found the detailed expenditure column: the bulk of the expenditure is still It's Arcane Core and Orichalcum, followed closely by Mushroom House allocation, Merchant Ship Purchase and Mage Tower expenses. "Did we buy another boat?" Annan asked, pointing to the merchant ship purchase.
"The red dragon warlock you recruited refused to sail those shabby and small ships."
Annan didn't say anything. Anyway, there are many specialties in Liberty City, and he will make money in the end.
"How much money does our treasury, uh... treasury have now?"
"It is guaranteed that 50,000 gold coins can be withdrawn from the treasury at any time." Ingrid pretended not to hear Annan's arrogance. , "If you need us, we can save more..."
"No need." Annan became more generous at this time, "The money you spend is money. What you put in the treasure house only shines. Stone.”
"But don't be wronged...you must be careful where you need to spend a lot of money..."
But Annan still cares about money. To put it lightly... half of the money is given to the blue dragon tribe every month. Liberty City is the "eternal" ally of the blue dragon, one of the five colored dragons.
The "eternal" period is no more money.
Or hire legendary or epic professionals.
However, what was hired was not Liberty City’s own strength after all - Annan and Olmedo agreed on this point. In addition, there are no foreign enemies in Liberty City, so I have never thought of hiring him.
"Besides spending money, is there no good news?"
Annan put down the financial statements. When he came back, he passed by the Mage Tower. The first floor was already in use, but the second floor was still far from being completed.
“There is one. Because we have bought four arcane energy cores and a large amount of orichalcum in the past two years, Wilhelm is willing to help us convert five small arcane cores for free for only 10,000 gold coins. The energy core is replaced by a medium-sized arcane energy core. "
The diameter of a small arcane energy core is about 500 meters, and five of them are 1,250 meters. According to the current area of Liberty City, it can include all urban areas except the farmland in the north and the port in the southeast.
However, this is an ideal range. Multiple energy cores will become unstable due to mutual influence, and some distance will be lost. A medium-sized arcane energy core has a real range of 1250 yards.
Annan raised his hand: "I am a warlock, but not a warrior. The ten thousand gold coins you mentioned have nothing to do with free, right?"
"The arcane energy core took a lot of time and there was some loss. They You can't bear it for us."
"But it doesn't cost ten thousand gold coins."
"I suggest..."
"I understand." This is controlled by others. Disadvantages... But in the end, I still don't make enough money.
"Money... It would be nice if a giant dragon made of gold coins suddenly appeared in front of me... Well, it doesn't seem to be much."
The finances of Liberty City have been kept secret, but I want to find out too much. Easy. As a result, spies from various countries got a jaw-dropping answer - Liberty City's annual revenue is equivalent to the property of many principalities in their heyday - such as the allies and neighbors to the north.
It stands to reason that spending such a huge amount of wealth on just one city would be enough for it to exist for hundreds of years... it just costs money faster.
If any grand duke dares to spend all the money he earns in a year, then he will be the king of subjugation...
"By the way, are you free tomorrow?" Annan suddenly asked road.
Ingrid was stunned: "Lord Annan, there are elves, orcs, druids in the city..."
"That's not what I meant!"
Annan explained in shame, Said: "I met Ivana today...she is like an adult."
"Is this bad?"
"I don't think it is good...children should be Having a childhood…what was your childhood?”
"Endless etiquette lessons and learning."
"Uh...so what do you think of the gloomy childhood?"
"I'm grateful..."
Damn," "The Impact of Childhood on People" is too advanced for this world.
“Anyway, your task is to take the children from the orphanage out for a day tomorrow.”
(End of this chapter)