Chapter 260: Luke’s First Grand Journey

And he didn’t have to buy any cultivation resources for E rank, Bronze Knights anymore.

Which proved, just as he read the next information.

"120 Bronze Knights | 20 Territory Guards + 100 Newly Upgraded Archers had reached peak of Bronze Knights."

Clearly, this was impossible to reach even in 600 days.

After all, they didn’t have any talent, only Ascension series.

So with the help of the dense Aether region of the Time Chamber and consuming 95,800 perfect E rank Aether crystals (valued at ~6.2 Million Gold), they were able to reach this stage.

Then he also checked how many Aether crystals each knight consumed on average at each stage.

35 Perfect E-Rank Crystals per knight (5 → 10 → 20 scaling).

"No wonder Barons have so few Bronze Knights." He murmured with a speechless expression, after checking that training 120 peak Bronze Knights took him 6.2m gold coins.

If in this we calculate gold coins for a single knight, then it would be roughly

"2,275 Gold coins."

While the average Baron’s annual income was just around 10,000 gold coins.

"I also produced them in the matter of 20 days." Luke noticed the time difference.

Fortunately, he didn’t have to buy resources for them, or else he would have gone bankrupt.

After that, he checked the data about Iron Knights and Body Temper together.

But the result made him angry.

"It can’t be helped." He leaned against his chair and looked at the ceiling.

Where now a drawing of a cute rabbit had been made.

"Clearly, Aurora would have done this." Seeing this, his earlier frustration reduced.

"No new knights, not even Body Temper or merchants came into the territory during those 20 days." He repeated the info with a knowing face.

After all, who would dare to come to a territory where B rank and A rank beings had come to the door?

"I hope the situation will be fixed now." He closed the file, since the last info was this and the number of Iron Knights.

"When I left the territory, there were around 10,100 Body Temper soldiers." | 100 (Original Territory) + 10,000 (New Recruits) |

"And they were already gone through Aurora’s oath binding."

The results?

During those 600 days of the Time Chamber, everyone had reached Peak Iron Knight stage.

Didn’t matter if they were talented or not.

"Sadly, the 10 Berserker Silver Knights and Taron, who were at the border, didn’t get this benefit."

"So their realm remains the same." He muttered with dissatisfaction, because the matter regarding the border seemed to be escalating with each passing day.

"Like someone was fanning the flames." He narrowed his eyes upon this and linked the Marquis of the demi-human with this.

But after a moment later, he shook his head to remove those thoughts.

Since he already had many things to do.

"So no time for border issues..."

"Atleast now."

After that, he gave a normal look toward the number of Iron Knights breakthrough. "6,030 Iron Knights | 30 (Guards/Maids) + 5,000 (Veterans Upgraded) + 1,000 (New Recruits) and then closed the file.

Then he separated their file, and checked another one, which contained the Windmarch soldiers report.

"They also need to rank up soon." He commented, while going through.

"Hmm... The 1,000 km long road of the South Ashveil trade route had been completed and all the units were also assigned."

Reading this, he nodded with satisfaction. Because there was another note which said

"All the previous merchants chose to build warehouses in Blackstone."

This was great news.

And another great news came, "Windmarch Reach had been fully captured."

"Great." Luke nodded, before thinking about future plans.

"Even though I am leaving for the Human Kingdom capital today,"

"I still have to make a plan for the clone."

Yes, today he would leave the territory, since only one day was left for Selene’s arrival.

And telling about this to Aurielle?

"Nah, I don’t want her to become yandere." He immediately denied that thought.

Because they had already discussed earlier that he would not go there.

Plus, the recent events had already made Aurielle very sensitive.

So if he asked her permission, he knew for sure

that she would cut off both his legs to make him stay in the territory.

After removing those ominous thoughts, he brought his attention back to the development of the territory.

"Yeah, that will do." He immediately thought about the earlier plan.

In which his clone would continue expanding the territory along with capturing the Stormhowl Mountains.

"And these new numbers of knights would be going to provide tremendous help." He added this part with deep satisfaction.

Because he was spending money on his knights, so they could come in handy for this type of timing.

Once all this planning was done, he thought about the Viscount forces.

"They dared to threaten me and my territory." He muttered with narrowed eyes.

Tap. Tap. Tap.

Then he tapped his fingers on the desk.

"What should I do with them?" He made one plan after another.

Then he checked the map of Blackstone and its surroundings.

"Oh..." After seeing that, he raised his eyebrow in surprise.

Because Windmarch Reach, the territory of the late Viscount Aldaric and now his, was connecting five other Viscount territories directly.

Then it connected to Blackstone Highlands.

"So he wanted to capture Blackstone, because his territory was already blocking the main choke points."

"But merchants could still pass through other territories and reach Blackstone to travel to the South trade route."

Upon this Luke praised the late Viscount Aldaric.

Because if he had really succeeded, then he would had a monopoly on the South trade route and could demand huge taxes from other Viscount forces or even everyone.

"Sadly, I became the lord of Blackstone." Luke smiled and brought his attention back to the closest five Viscount territories.

"Should I play economic warfare?" He thought with calculations.

In that, he could target the popular products of their territories, so merchants and other people would come to his territory to buy those.

Which would result in their economies collapsing soon.

"Or should I just directly kill them?" He also thought this, which seemed like the best idea.

But the next moment he shook his head.

"Aldaric’s territory was close to the border, so it took time for people to come when the earlier incident happened."

"But if I attack one place, then the others would become wary and may even request help from other forces."

Thinking this, he removed his earlier plan of assassination.

Sadly, he was already maintaining active clones, or else he could use them for far assassination attempts as well.

"Well, let them live for a few more days." So Luke decided that his clone, who would make the assassin group, would take care of them.

"Now it’s time for a NEW ADVENTURE." Luke muttered excitedly. After all, this journey would be his first where he would really travel far distance and see many new things.

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Author note: Well, we really have come so far. 260 Chapter, 350k words. That’s crazy.

And also thank you everyone for your precious gifts, golden tickets and power stones.

I am speeling the names, because that would make this Chapter would be long.

But I am truly gratefull to all of you.

So here is the main thing.

This is not voulme end, but it’s still half of Voulume II.

After this, the story will be divided into different-different scenario.

Like, Luke clone, growing their group. Each of them would going to screen time.

While the starting part is definetly belongs to Luke and Selene reunion.

Yeah, I am excited for this.

So all other things, will keep happening in background.

That why, please keep supporting this, your favorite novel and also me.

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