The New Civilization of Witches

Chapter 16: Future route

The flames in the fireplace were in full bloom, spreading a chill through the doors and windows.

On top of a large fireplace hung a deer skull with long horns. In the light of the fire, the reflection shadows of the horns on the back wall looked like huge claws and skull escort teeth.

Across from Roland stood a long, dark-red wooden table filled with parchments and books.

Most documents only require his signature to execute the command.

Normally, Roland would only be here to handle official work, but since he had turned the castle room into a three-room office, he became fond of working here.

Through the window at the end of the floor, he could see the city unfolding under his gaze, and on the horizon were endless mountains.

The mountains were almost impassable, they separated the Kingdom

Graycastle and the wild lands became two.

The northern mountain slope is just a branching fissure from the mountains.

At the foot of the window he could see a wood-fenced garden, where Anna used to practice. To provide a comfortable place for afternoon tea, the brick pool has been converted into a long table.

If the weather is good, he can get down and lie down under the sun, or maybe even take a nap on a specially made rocking chair.

Although it is small, it is great to have your own private garden as well. In his previous life, if you wanted to sit on the stone steps of an actual castle, it was almost impossible.

Just to look around, you have to spend money to buy tickets. But now, he not only had his own castle, but an entire city as well.

"Your Majesty, recently we spent a lot of money from your treasury to recruit merchants and artisans.

If this continues, I'm afraid our treasury won't last until the spring of next year."

Barov handed the parchment with the latest report on the financial situation to Roland.

Originally, Border Town had a very simple income and expense chart.

Their livelihood comes from ore mining and precious stone trading. This line of income was in the hands of the Longsong camp. Output from North Slope

Mine was instantly exchanged for wheat or bread, without any taxes, and the exchange of resources was led by the fortress, he said,

Explained in simpler terms, the,

The North Slope Mine was a joint item of the Longsong Stronghold nobleman.

The nobles stationed in the border town could be seen as guardians of the shareholders, their territory was mostly in the east of the fort.

They come here only for a limited time, and there will be different people every year.

In fact, Border Town has less than 30 years of history.

Compared to the nearly two hundred year old Longsong Stronghold, it was only a newborn baby.

Duke Ryan only intended to set up an outpost here to get an early warning if the beast invasion began.

He never expected that the pioneers who discovered the mine were rich with mineral resources in the Northern Mountain

The slopes would only settle there, practically making a small municipality, named Border

Towns.

To prevent theft, the Duke did not receive labor sent by other nobles.

Instead, he hired locals.

Even criminals became miners, and food was divided equally based on the ore output each house provided.

The fort will only provide some food and hire employers throughout the year.

The fort only paid a fixed amount of money, it was not based on mining results.

Of the two thousand residents of Border Town, more than half worked in mining.

Other places were other industries in the city, blacksmith shops, taverns, textile shops, and so on. From them, from them,

Border Town usually received a small amount of income throughout the year, but it was quite difficult to have any money left at the end of that year.

The appointed lord did not take Border Town seriously, as Roland was sent there from the gray palace.

Instead, he had decided to stay in the fortress, without returning to the Border

Towns.

As a result, when Roland wanted to hire someone to repair the wall, he could only pay for it from his own pocket.

If it was the fourth prince from before, he would definitely never do so.

But Roland's current, as long as he gained a strong foothold in this Border Town, even if he had to exhaust all of his properties, it would still be worth it.

After all, after the ore trade was no longer settled by food,

The only question was whether Longsong Stronghold was willing to give up their trade monopoly with Border Town

this would be the same as entering a tiger's nest to snatch food, but the inventory data provided by

Barovs

demonstrate that the efficiency of mining is low and the transport of ore is inefficient and inconvenient.

In fact, the annual yield value of ore mining was over 1000 gold royals, but for the entire fortress it was only a drop of water in a bucket.

The only ones who benefit from this are the partners of the INVESTMENT aristocracy

Taking into account the long-term development of Border Town, this revenue line should be restored.

they still wouldn't easily let go. While mosquitoes are small, they are still meat.

Moreover, these are seeds that can be useful for making money in a reprehensible way. Previously, he was willing to give certain advantages and compensation to investors such as buying half the price and such.

However, in the case of the sale of one full ship of ore with only half a ship of cereal, an event like this should not happen again.

While Roland was focused on pondering the list of items, Barov was watching him attentively.

In these three months, or rather, in the last month, some inexplicable changes had occurred to the fourth prince.

Perhaps the outsider was still unsure, but he was by the prince's side every day, so this kind of change could at most keep him in the dark for a short time.

During his time in Graycastle, Fourth Prince Roland Wimbledon was only known for his poor reputation.

He will insist in his own way, behave immorally, without an aristocratic attitude ...

things like that. In short, no big mistakes are made, only small unrelenting mistakes.

Compared to his two brothers, his position was very different.

When His Majesty sent him to Border Town, he was filled with disappointment.

If He

His Majesty did not promise him the position of official finance minister after the usurpation of the throne, he would stop and leave long ago.

From the very beginning, in his first two months in Border Town, the fourth prince had always displayed extremely childish behavior.

He managed to offend the local nobility repeatedly.

Fortunately, the city itself was of very small scale, so even if all the administrative positions were vacated and he had to fill those positions with a dozen civilians, they could still continue.

But from now on, it will be something different.

"When did that change happen?" he thought, he thought,

"Maybe.. after he saved the witch, the change came."

Barov does not doubt that the devil has the power to enter the body, or that the prince can be manipulated by hidden witches.

But this was very unlikely, if demons and witches had the ability to control someone, why would they choose the fourth prince?

Wouldn't it be better to directly control His Majesty or the pope?

Another thing that dispelled his doubts was that he had witnessed the prince holding the Punishment Key'.Deity's'

This is the Church's trump card for dealing with witches.

Any demon power would collapse in front of 'God Lock's Punishment',

but Roland could hold it in person.

In other words, if he is not the fourth prince, when even God has no power about him,

there was no need to fear the demon lord, so was it necessary to expose him?

To preserve your own life is of the utmost importance.

The Prince's style still continued in his own way, behaving immorally, and so on,

but Barov's feeling was that the two styles were not at all the same. No, Barov thought, it should be the opposite.

The biggest difference is the purpose. He realized what Roland had planned, to achieve the goal,

he had to use some methods that were elusive to ordinary people, such as when he tried to persuade him to save a witch.

Perhaps the planning was not very wise, but the prince had actually planned ahead of time, and was very confident in the outcome without a doubt.

This ability was the one that caused anyone to feel the most confused.

The title of king might be given to any Roland brothers and sisters, but certainly not to the fourth prince himself.

This was very obvious, because of how he could develop such a small place

Border Town?

Even the gods can't do it!

In the end, Roland came up with a crazy plan, a crazy plan to create a defensive line outside of Border Town, the,

so that they could develop better than City Of Golden City.

is he really sure that this project will work?

| If he's just a madman, that's bad enough.

But to Roland, who was zealously building the city wall, it did not seem so.

He actually planned to defend this place, with just the help of 'cement' of alchemy products, to build a wall, which, according to common sense, was almost impossible.

Within the Barov family was also an alchemist, but he had never heard of an alchemy workshop refining such a thing.

The solution to the construction of the wall was based on something no one had ever seen before, in the end, was he just confident, or was it just his reckless behavior?

"How far did Roland's plan go, and in the end how much do I know about Roland's scheme?"

Barov found himself interested in the days to come.