85: Incredible wealth

Half an hour later, both the humans and the Minotaurs finished reporting the situations they encountered last night. Overall, it was a perfect conclusion—excitement without danger!

Next up was the most exciting part: reporting the income!

First, Victor, the leader of the human Sky Knight experts, began his report:

"My Lord, we eliminated countless Kingdom pests last night. In total, that included one Duke family, five Marquis families, eighteen Count families, ninety-five Viscount families, and four hundred and thirty-six Baron families!"

Arthur was startled by this number, because the Kate Kingdom only had three Dukes, about a dozen Marquises, nearly forty Counts, nearly two hundred Viscounts, and nearly a thousand Barons.

In a single night, Victor and the others had wiped out nearly half of the Kingdom's nobility!

This was truly an astonishing figure!

This also meant that the Kate Kingdom, which had a Legacy of nearly three hundred years, could not withstand the ravages of time, and its internal nobility had begun to become corrupt, extravagant, and utterly wicked!

Of course, those mentioned above were the wealthy, powerful nobles in the Kingdom. As for the nominal nobles without fiefs, they were countless!

Then, Victor continued:

"Regarding merchants, we also wiped out fifty merchant associations!"

This number was significantly smaller compared to the nobles!

It seemed that in this era where nobles reigned, there weren't that many black-hearted merchants after all; most of them were just targets of oppression!

After detailing the annihilated forces, Victor finally spoke about the gains from this trip:

"Therefore, the total amount of cash acquired this time, meaning Gold Coins, is 650 million Gold Coins, and other valuable items are worth approximately 1.5 billion Gold Coins!

The total wealth harvested amounts to 2.15 billion Gold Coins!"

Hearing this, Arthur's eyes immediately lit up. He didn't care about the items worth 1.5 billion Gold Coins because he couldn't use them yet.

But 650 million Gold Coins in cash was a huge fortune for him right now!

He could immediately summon over sixty more Sky Knights!

He couldn't help but say joyfully:

"Excellent, Victor. You certainly haven't disappointed me!"

Since the human side of the Kingdom had such a great harvest, Arthur turned his expectant gaze toward the Minotaurs.

Seeing this, the leading Minotaur Sky Knight expert quickly replied:

"My Lord Arthur, the Orc side is relatively barren, so our harvest is also smaller!

We did not raid the Tiger Tribe where the Orc Legendary resided, nor the tribes of the other three Orc Sky Knight experts.

We visited over a dozen other Orc tribes and acquired a total of 350 million Gold Coins in cash, along with items worth 600 million Gold Coins."

After hearing the report, Arthur realized that the harvest from the Orc Kingdom was indeed much smaller than that from the human Kingdom.

The cash alone was 300 million less!

But on second thought, the human Kingdom side plundered one extra Duke, who was also a Sky Knight.

A single Duke family possessed nearly 200 million Gold Coins in cash, plus humans were inherently wealthier than Orcs.

Even if the Orc side could freely plunder wealthy individuals below the Sky Knight rank, having less money was understandable.

Arthur looked at the Minotaur expert, who seemed slightly nervous due to the smaller harvest, smiled faintly, and replied:

"Hmm! You all did a good job too!"

Hearing this, the Minotaur expert's uneasy heart finally calmed down. He touched his bull head and revealed a simple, honest smile:

"Thank you for the praise, My Lord. This is what we ought to do!"

...The human Kingdom side harvested 650 million Gold Coins in cash, and the Orc Royal Court side harvested 350 million in cash, totaling exactly 1 billion Gold Coins!

With this huge sum of 1 billion Gold Coins, a plan Arthur had in mind finally had the prerequisite for implementation.

It should be known that a few months ago, Arthur had drawn an item called the Advanced Knight Regiment Secret Technique from the Portable Shop.

It could gather the strength of up to ten thousand people Cultivating the same Battle Qi Cultivation Technique, allowing them to cross three tiers to slay enemies!

The experts Arthur exchanged for were all Clones, and naturally, they Cultivated the same Cultivation Technique, making them capable of using the Advanced Knight Regiment Secret Technique.

Arthur even speculated that perhaps because they were Clones, the power of the Secret Technique they deployed might be even greater.

This meant that as long as Arthur could exchange for ten thousand Gold Knights, he could cross three tiers and kill a Legendary Knight!

And the price for ten thousand Gold Knights was exactly 1 billion Gold Coins!

Of course, this choice was not the best.

Arthur could also choose to exchange for one hundred Sky Knights and have them deploy the Advanced Knight Regiment Secret Technique, which would also allow them to cross one tier and kill a Legendary Knight.

After all, the Advanced Knight Regiment Secret Technique could be deployed by a minimum of two people and a maximum of ten thousand.

This method also only required 1 billion Gold Coins!

Comparing the two, exchanging for Sky Knight experts was naturally the best option!

However, the above were all ideal scenarios.

When deploying the Knight Regiment Secret Technique, although they gain power far exceeding the ordinary, fighting across a tier requires gathering at least a hundred experts of the same rank.

This meant their speed would be severely limited; they would essentially be a massive, powerful Cannon Turret.

Unless the Kingdom's Legendary was willing to directly confront Arthur, relying solely on one hundred Sky Knights deploying the Secret Technique would not be enough to defeat the Kingdom's Legendary.

After all, if the Legendary couldn't win, they would run, but at least Arthur now had a trump card for confrontation.

This immediately relaxed the tension Arthur had felt concerning the Legendaries of both kingdoms!

Now, all he needed was something that could temporarily trap or restrict a Legendary, and then Arthur would have absolute confidence in defeating the opponent!

Unfortunately, Arthur didn't have such an item yet, so for now, he could only continue to lie low!

As for the one hundred Sky Knights Arthur planned for, he wasn't in a hurry to exchange for them now. After all, it wouldn't take him long to exchange for a hundred people.

He decided to save the money for now. What if he got incredibly lucky next month and drew an item capable of defeating a Legendary or an expert above the Legendary rank? It would be ridiculous if he couldn't afford it then!

With the matters concluded, Arthur began arranging the placements for the current Sky Knight experts.

First were the four Minotaurs; they certainly couldn't run around freely and must remain in this stronghold.

Next were the seven human Sky Knights. Victor and Wilson would continue to take turns protecting Arthur.

Of the remaining five, one would be stationed permanently in Initial City so that when Arthur left, the Initial City would still have an expert guarding it!

Then, two Sky Knight experts would go to Fierce Lion Territory to protect his family, as relying only on Petro was still too few!

Finally, there were two people left. Arthur thought about it and decided to send them to Rose Castle to guard Olivia!

After all, Olivia was his fiancée, and Rose Castle was too far away from him. If anything happened, he wouldn't be able to respond in time; he would be beyond the reach of the whip.

As for Karona, there was no need to specially assign an expert to guard her, because she was either staying in Initial City or following Arthur, ensuring her safety was well guaranteed!