[{"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-455":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},1846408,2449,"Chapter 457: Relief and Worries","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-455",455,"\u003Cp>Rynra\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Apologies Dame Rynra, but I can't do it. I have to follow the orders,\" said the bloody man in front of me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His tone was respectful, but I could see the hidden contempt in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This bastard should have been there; he wouldn't have survived. They had killed Yegson; he had the same strength as him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At least Yegson had guts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This little bustard didn't even have that. He is a complete coward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, I didn't show that on my face and kept my expression and voice calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Once a horde from Norke merges with us. We will have enough numbers and experts to launch a powerful attack against the enemies,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They are tired and lost a lot of their numbers. They won't be able to fight us; it will be an easy victory,\" I said and contempt in his eyes deepened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My hands moved toward my sword, but stopped halfway. Fear appeared in his eyes and even staff lit up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A moment later, embarrassment appeared on his face, and he cut off the spell, he was casting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A smile appeared on my face seeing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have recovered quite a bit of mana, which would be enough to kill this bastard if I wanted to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Dame Rynra, I am just following the orders. If you want me to lead my horde to Panar, then I will need an order from Ashton Harbor,\" he said, voice more polite than before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It also slammed all the doors. At least temporarily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's not like, I didn't try to contact the higher-ups. I did, many times, but they didn't respond after the first call.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their intention is obvious. They don't want to attack Panar. At least not now, before the battle at Port Midlet ends.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, I tried with this man, if he was willing to bend the rules, but he didn't have that much of a spine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, he contacted the enemy and tried to be a hero by getting the prisoners and traitors, but failed spectacularly, when the enemy asked him to come to fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which instead of making him angry, had made the coward more cautious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I will be in my carriage,\" I said and walked away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The horde had turned. It is returning to Almin instead of attacking Panar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wish they listen to me. I am confident of the victory if we attack them with the force we have, but unfortunately, they are not willing to listen to me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though it's not over yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Owlspring\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Didn't, I tell you, he will conquer, Panar,\" said the Lord of Owlspring to the old man in front of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, he did, but I am concerned about the other thing,\" said the old man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aura, you mean?\" asked the Lord of Owlspring, and the man's expression turned serious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What do our sources say? Is it true, my lord?\" asked the old man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Everyone inside had sensed it, including our person hiding in the city,\" replied the lord of Owlspring, confirming the intelligence he had received.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Awakening an aura for twenty years. He would be trouble for us if the empire was able to get itself out of this trouble,\" said the old man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lord of Olwrping smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I think the opposite because the empire is gone. It will never be what it was,\" said the lord of Owlspring and smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A smile is full of secrets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ronda\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So, he won,\" I said as the Laris informed us of the news.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It will increase the morale of their forces in Greltheaven,\" said Lord Darius, with a big frown on his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It clearly worried him, but not me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's nothing to be worried about, my lord. We have twice the number of men as the enemy with numerous powerhouses,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I promise you; we will have Greltheaven, that is before the first light of tomorrow,\" I said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am confident about the victory. All the men I had brought were trained and experienced. There are also numerous powerhouses, all of them are veterans of many battles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We will not lose. We will win and not just the Greltheaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Panar will also be ours. Once I captured the Greltheaven; I will move to Panar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just thinking about it made my beat in joy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I hope this last hour passes quickly and I attack the Greltheaven. It would be easy, seeing it is a cripple that is leading it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There are notable powerhouses that we will need to deal with, but I am not worried about them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have brought enough powerhouses, and they are just as good as them and, if not better, and most importantly, they are greater in numbers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Both of the hordes have turned,\" informed Shaun, and the relief flooded in my heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had been worrying me a lot. If they had attacked, the battle would have been bloody. Even if we had gained the victory. It wouldn't have been without a substantial cost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, it is not over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is a still battle at Port Midlet; a lot of things will depend on it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even then, we will not be safe, but I already knew about these things. I knew Panar would be a constant danger from the undead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite that, I came here, but it's important for Greltheaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You should rest. We need you to be ready, the moment, they decide to attack again,\" I said without privacy skills. So, everyone could hear it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, I do rest,\" he said and walked down from the wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People know Stone had a serious injury and needed rest. Enemies know that well too; we might as well them, that he is resting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let them think about whether it is a trap or a truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I may be smiling, but I am worried about Stone. He had told me the nature of tiredness and how hard it is becoming for him to hold it back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't know when he would wake up once he slept or what state, he would be in when he would wake up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You are in charge, till General Stone returned Maj. General Azalea,\" I said to the woman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I will not disappoint you, my lord,\" she accepted with a bow. I smiled and turned to the soldiers in front of me, working on mine and doing a few things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Undead might not be coming now, but they are coming, and we need to be prepared for them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I turned toward Greltheaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am not as worried as I should be about it. I didn't come without preparations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The enemies are going to get a pleasant surprise when they reach the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I would never leave my city unprotected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I stayed on the wall for half an hour more before climbing down. Once down, I mounted on the horse and went toward the city hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thud!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few minutes later, I dismounted in front of the city hall and walked toward it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This city hall is big, bigger than the one in Greltheaven, and also old. Over a thousand years old; it survived, the empire's attack and countless undead scourges of Navr.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is the only city hall. In all the cities of the region that had survived for more than a thousand years, where many city halls have been destroyed and rebuilt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The former governor may have spent little on anything, but he spent good money on the city hall. Not only did he repair the damages, but also renovated it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, when I walked inside. I saw it as a completely different thing than the rest of the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is clean, without a speck of dust, and walls laden with art pieces on beautifully painted walls\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This man had good taste, unlike Count Darrow. The bastard was only attracted to ostentatious things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, I reached the office of governor, which will act as my office, before I appoint the governor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then this office will be theirs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The guards bowed and opened the door for me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Master Silver,\" she greeted and bowed. I nodded and sat down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How bad are things?\" I asked directly. There is no need to sugarcoat this question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Very,\" she replied simply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Water, sanitation, health, food, waste management, and everything is down. The people here are not even living, they are barely surviving,\" she spat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is great anger in her eyes. Even I am angry at seeing the state of the city and its people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Any money?\" I asked. \"Surprisingly, yes. It is a share of Yegson and what he looted from people, before turning them into the undead,\" she replied, holding the anger in her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How much?\" I asked, and she opened the file in front of me and pointed at the number written in big bold letters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have to say, it's not a small number at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is far from enough to deal with the city's problems, but it is big enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That we could start, with it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A lot of it would be needed to do, and the first thing would be starting those services. It wouldn't be cheap, and I would need to bring a lot of people from the Greltheaven to aid with that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Including the police, who will be responsible for the security.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could send a few hundred of them here, without compromising the security of the Greltheaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first batch of police is graduating in a week. They are the first that have been formally trained as police officers. Some talented ones had even got the classes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Grill everything from officials and ask our people to look at things with their own eyes. I need a detailed report of things by tomorrow,\" I ordered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It will be done, my lord,\" she replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I nodded and turned to the file. It is short, which isn't surprising, given she didn't have any time. She was able to gather this much in a such time is a testament to her abilities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, my expressions couldn't help but turn bad as I read through it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The little bit of joy, I had about the money had vanished immediately after reading the information in the file.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I didn't retreat from the city, I would need to spend a lot of money on it. Seeing that, I almost started to wish, that the undead attack us with a big horde and make us retreat from the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A minute later, I closed the file and shut my eyes, thinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lord Silver, the enemies have reached the city,\" informed Shaun, making me open my eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Finally,\" I said, with a smile appearing on his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tap on thebelow to read 20 Advanced Chapters.\u003C\u002Fp>",1784,"2026-06-09T06:54:39.600Z",1,"novelbin.me","1829148e5d9d912ec02b860dac1ae09cecafd9c774b84f9dd26d98b0d5b9077f","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-456","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-454",917,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcity-of-desire-kingdom-building-cover.jpg"]