Conqueror

I let them all rest in the strategic room. I just left them all there. I know it's working since the armor is slowly forming on their bodies and I could still hear them breath.

I went to my office, the throne room was just for show and for formal events, the office is different.

"Welcome, my King." Caesar Griffin, my secretary and accountant and basically everything that'll support me as a king.

"Thank you Caesar." I then sat down on the chair and organized the documents before me. "Can you give me a report on the things that I asked you?"

"Yes. Our population is about 40,000. This is just our estimate. The population is a 40% male and 50% female and the other 10% are from different species that do not have a gender." Caesar then gave me the document he was holding.

"Our current troops are an exact amount of 12,462. We have 6,931 swordsman, both sword and shield and sword only users, 231 support mages, focuses on healing, crowd controls and giving boosts to our allies, 1,642 offense mages, focuses on offensive spells, 1,462 archers and crossbow users, 1,567 gunmen, 436 juggernauts and 193 flying units"

"Only 436 juggernauts?"

"Yes."

"It isn't even enough to go into war." Juggernauts are basically tanks and the core of an army. "Most of them were lost in the war in Itz?"

"Yes, we lost 7,463 juggernauts in the war between Itz. Do you want me to report the losses too?"

"No, don't. Continue the report."

"Our circle of government are all dead. It's just you and me."

"Hmm... I'll assign Afal to the military as the Warlord... And that's it for now."

"I'll assign him later. Anyway, can I continue the report?"

"Yes, yes. My apologies."

"Our current treasury status in gold are about 14,682. I added your current gold in the treasury. The hidden stones and gems in the strategic room are more than that. The Zry Stone costs 10,000 gold and we have 32 of those, Bram Stones costs 1,000 gold each and we have 76 pieces of it and our most expensive stone, Xia Diamond costs 80,000 gold and we have 29 of those."

"Why do we have these stones exactly?"

"We can't protect gold that much. Gold takes up too much space but if we compact the gold into something smaller but has the same value, it can be easily contained. The 14,682 gold in the bank that's open to the public are a decoy so to speak and an easier way to withdraw money. We convert the stones into gold by selling it to other kingdoms. Converting them is easy since every kingdom will do everything to keep their treasury hidden."

"I see. Continue."

"The adventurer guilds will have their budgets increased by 300%."

"Wait, wait, wait, what?"

"Yes, it's an unavoidable problem. The spawn rate of monsters these past few months have been five times compared to last year. Their levels are almost doubled by last year too. Deaths have been increasing but the levels of the adventurers have been increasing and so are the monsters."

"Try to add 200% up in budget first. We're out of funds since most of our gold are going to the restoration and paying for everything."

"I'll do that. Continuing, we'll up the minimum wage for laborers from 50 silvers a day to 3 gold a day. The spawnrate of monsters are at an alarming rate and the walls of our kingdom doesn't cover the farmlands."

"What's our tax?"

"We gather taxes 50 gold per household. If we have an exact 40,000 population and if 3 people were in one household, in theory, we will get about 600,000 gold per tax period every three months."

"Wow, that's a lot."

"But, we expect that to be gone in a matter of days. Keeping up with the payments of our kingdom and the debts we owed to others, we'll have to manage with what we can get."

"600 thousand... Gone in a matter of days..."

"We have gained 57,720 gold this month from getting the taxes from the people."

"57,720? What? Don't we have 40,000 in population? That's weirdly very low."

"The rest of the remaining taxes we got were divided into three different things. The restoration of the city, payment for the soldiers and laborers and finally, it'll be converted to our treasury."

"I don't understand why we lost a lot of gold in just all of that. How much does a normal house cost?"

"50,000 gold."

"Why is it so expensive?"

"After the great war years ago, everything was burned to ashes and have been destroyed. The gods descended from above and blessed this world with new minerals. Years after that, these minerals were discovered and the leaders of every kingdom changed how they built their kingdom. That's the tale... But seeing how you're a level 154 and a player, I believe that the great war really happened. Everything you see here in this kingdom is protected by minerals mined by our miners. It can take up blows from level 20 to level 30 and high level spells. This castle is worth around 900,000 gold. Not including anything here, just the construction of it. It's the most powerful stone we could find and we covered the castle with it."

"Our defenses, how is it?"

"I'm afraid to say but we have very little defense. We have 30 arbalests in the top of the walls and that's it."

"What are the defenses we can build?"

"Arbalests, Cannons, Anti-Air Arrows, Watchtower and Mortars."

"Focus on defenses. Prioritize making mortars and cannons, put up at least two watchtowers in each entrance and exit on our back gate and front gate."

"My estimate on the cost will be about 25,000 and getting soldiers to use it will be about 5,000."

"That'll do. I'll be leaving for now."

"Ah, my King, I forgot to give you this." Caesar then hands me clothes.

"What's this?"

"Robes of the king and the crown. People need to know that you're leaving."

"I'll be quick. I'll wear that next time."

"I see. Well then, may I ask where you're going?"

"I'm going back to the village. I won't be long. I need to talk to Ortov." I then stood up and got ready, "Teleport!"