[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-city-of-desire-kingdom-building":3,"chapter-city-of-desire-kingdom-building-city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-415":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","City of Desire [Kingdom Building]",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1846268,2449,"Chapter 417: Plans","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-415",415,"\u003Cp>Deerpond\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Silver is growing his army at alarming speed. Look at this information milord, these weapons, that merchant state providing him,\" said General Silva as they turned to Greltheaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everybody in the meeting turned serious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Greltheaven's rise had become serious enough, that they had added them in a list of threats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's all because of that damn legacy. He is selling the essences and getting those weapons from the merchants!\" said Lt. General Ronda, who hates Silver the most.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lord of Deerpond didn't say anything, but read the file in front of him, that had the latest information on Silver.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His army grew at incredible speed in the past seven months, but it's what happened in the past month, that made them worried exponentially.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The numbers in his army grew faster, but it was weapons coming from the merchant state, that had made them worried the most.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Weapons, the types of which the merchant had stated, had refused to sell to them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It is indeed worrying, but there is nothing we could do, should do about it. At least temporarily.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The undead are coming and we should be prepared for them, because this time; the attack would be more powerful than the last time,\" said Lord of Deerpond.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everybody nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We are prepared to deal with them, my lord. When the division arrives, we will be in an even better position to deal with them,\" said General Silva.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We need them to reach the city fast. I need them here, before the undead attack us,\" said Lord of Deepond.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They understood the hurry. The twelve thousand soldiers will be tremendously helpful to them in dealing with the undead threat coming at them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We are trying, my lord, but the conditions are such that it is taking time,\" replied General Silva.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are using both diplomatic and financial means to smooth their journey, but it is hard to see what is happening in the empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The meeting ended an hour and a half later and everybody began to leave, till only three of them had remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lord of Owlspring, his son, and General Silva.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He activated the privacy wards to their full power and added, their own skills into it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How is the progress?\" asked the Lord of Deepond. \"In a week, our people will reach the load,\" replied General Silva.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing that, a smile appeared on Lord's face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Silver has a legacy, but so what? In a week, we will have something, that everyone needs. Merchants will come to us for it, and so will everyone else.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It will provide us with enough money, to fund a big army. Fend off the undead, and then move to conquer Greltheaven to get that legacy,\" said Darius.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>General Silva nodded. It's their plan. They want Greltheaven, want it for the legacy, and to control the river route.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They only need Greltheaven for it. Getting, Riverbell wouldn't be a problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hun!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My eyes flew open as I sensed something, I had never sensed before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though it had been explained to me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What happened?\" asked Carla. Sensing me waking up. \"A new legacy has been born,\" I replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes widened in surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where?\" she asked. \"I think, it's herald continent,\" I replied, before closing my eyes to sense it clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, I got a glimpse of the place. It is a small place, intimate. I could see a raven-haired woman in her middle-age, looking around in shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had a paintbrush in her hand and a canvas with a half-finished painting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Around her are people, young and old, with paintbrushes and canvases in front of them. Some looked confused, while others were in shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Master Silver,' said Caena telepathically. 'In my office.' I replied and walked out of the bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Click!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I opened the door and walked into my office, with Carla following behind and Caena, coming in a few seconds later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lord Silver, there is a message from Synod,\" said Shaun with a surprise on his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who is it?\" I asked directly, knowing it was about the legacy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sarkis Mael. She is the owner of a painting club, in the kingdom of Seirnol, Herald Continent,\" he replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I nodded\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Send her the congratulations from me,\" I said, and a moment later, the core appeared in the office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everybody could see it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked at the magnificent thing for a moment, before concentrating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slowly, the tiny part begins to separate from it. It is a fraction of the core, filled with emotion essence as well as a small bit of the true essence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have been waiting for it for months and kept the small part always reserved for it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I don't have to give it; a legacy younger than one year had an exception, but I am going to. Not only because I want to but also because I could.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have been very lucky that I had ten months without a new legacy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which is a long time without a new legacy. Usually, there were at least two new legacies born at that time, but there were none, while three legacies died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My legacy consumed part of that without getting infected by its vision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It made my core strong, and now, I am giving away a small part of me. Though one without any vision; it is just pure, true essence and emotion essence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The small part came out fully, and I pushed it toward the new legacy, which started to pull it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good night, everyone,\" I said and walked back into my room, before laying on the bed to sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have an important meeting tomorrow with the intelligence official from the merchant state. He is coming, bringing secret intelligence that couldn't be sent through the spell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I fell asleep and woke up four hours later, at my usual time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked at the widow and saw it was dark. Carla is still sleeping, and I didn't disturb her. I went to the bathroom and freshened up, before taking the stairs to the roof.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I walked into the center of the training circle and took a deep, slow breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While I was doing that, I began to pull the power of the skills Gymnasts Grace and Gymnasts Control back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I used to practice yoga with them; the harder poses, but I discovered that it gives more benefits when I do it while lessening the power of the skills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It helps me gain more control over my body and skills. Helps me go deeper, and find more uses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past few months, I have made tremendous progress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could now reduce the power of both of the skills to around 25%. Which is tremendous progress in just a short few months.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My target is to reduce it to 20%, but it will be hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am finding my speed of progress has reduced greatly. It had become harder to take a single step, but that is to be expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An hour later, I finished and saw my sparring partner was already waiting. He is looking at the view of the city from the top, enamored.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is his first time in here. Most of the time, we spar in the manor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's a beautiful view, isn't it, Captain Garzong?\" I asked the man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's breathtaking, my lord,\" he replied, turning. \"It is,\" I said, turning to the city, bathing in the dawn's light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I enjoyed the view for a minute before walking back into the circle. A training rapier appeared in my hand, while he picked up a great sword from the rack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few seconds later, we begin the spar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn't hold back and used every skill and technique I had against the man, who didn't hesitate to fight dirty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His skills are excellent, especially the bandit skills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His class had changed, but many of those skills remained and he could use them skillfully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He is also a great fighter with a fighting style, different from humans. The orcs have the physical advantage over humans and their fighting style developed according to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The environment, they used to live in also had an effect on it. Making it more primal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is why, more than half instructors, who teach the new orc recruits are orcs. They understood the physique well and the limitations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They also have humans and even elves instructors for the area, that that do not have expertise in it, which are many.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I dodged his kick, before parrying his attack. He moved for another, before stopping suddenly, as the bell rang out. Ending the practice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank you, for your time, Captain Garzong,\" I said to the man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The honor is all mine, my lord,\" He replied before walking away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I rested for a few minutes, before walking back into my room. There I showered, before having breakfast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Click!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When I walked into my office, I saw that Caena was already there, along with Carla. I nodded at her and sat down, before opening the file in front of me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is the daily financial report. It is a rough estimate; I get the accurate one every week.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This report didn't just have the finances of the velvet red, but also the blue and other floors of the legacy, except for the store.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A minute later, I closed the file with a smile on my face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's expensive to run the tower. From the salaries of the staff to food and drink. Everything costs a lot of money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I will be submitting the first installment today,\" informed Carla.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A month had passed since the legacy had opened, and it was time for us to start repaying the massive loan we took from the bank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is massive, but the establishment is also earning a lot. More than we had estimated, and that is excluding the essences and the plants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We are using only 5% of the monthly earnings to pay the loan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It will take me ten years to pay to pay off the massive loan. I could have used more, but why should I?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dept isn't bad. Especially one of such low interest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, I need money. Except for keeping some 20% for myself. I am loaning everything to the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The city is still desperate for every penny. To run a city is a massive expenditure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Our tax collection has made a big leap in the past few months and so has the traffic of goods on the river, but also the expenses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is not cheap to build roads, parks, police stations, and hospitals and maintain them with sufficient staff and resources.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it was all, everything would have been golden, but no. There is a defense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The true guzzler,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is a reason, the war bankrupts the countries. The salaries, pensions, equipment, and other things cost massive money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had spent as much as I could, but it was not enough. It never is, but I will keep trying. It's the only thing I could do to keep my city safe from the clutches of the undead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's time,\" I said as the nine ticked in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A moment later, everything turned dark, and a magnificent core appeared in front of me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's not alone, there is a colorful planet orbiting the core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is said that the core becomes what the host desires. Mine is the sun, charms turning into planets, which Caena had stemmed from my desires.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I admired it for a few seconds, before turning to business.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A box of tiny bottles appeared in my hand before the bottles flew toward the planet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A moment later, the planet begins to shine, and colorful flares begin to come out of the core like the sun and funnel into the planet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As it happened, the planet became more colorful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It continued for nearly half a minute before it stopped and the color it had gained began to drain from it, before stopping twelve seconds later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The planet had turned back the same as it had been when I summoned it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I waved my fingers, and the bottles returned. They are not empty, anymore. All of them are filled with the emotion essence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They went back to the big box and, the second after that, we returned to the real world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No matter, how many times, I looked. The process enamors me,\" said Carla.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It is an enamoring process,\" I said and looked at its architect. It wouldn't have been possible without her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How many had come?\" asked Caena. \"All of them,\" Carla replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, all of them had come for the essence, that I had promised them. I have the essence for all of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I turned to the box in front of me. We have been harvesting, this amount of essence every day, for the past month. A hundred bottles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We have thirty-three hundred bottles of essence and we had only promised fourteen hundred of them to others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a month, I had become sure, that my legacy could produce such an amount continuously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More than it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We are only harvesting a hundred bottles a day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That means, I could start on my plans, for which I am giving the essence to the Namdar, Imperials, and the other stakeholders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tap on thebelow to read20Advanced Chapters.\u003C\u002Fp>",2219,"2026-06-09T06:54:39.599Z",1,"novelbin.me","ba09b0e226b515ccb6a3677ad0998fb9b0b3d9880e3ca8e860f831fb9523049a","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-416","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-414",917,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcity-of-desire-kingdom-building-cover.jpg"]