Chapter 60 (2/2)

“That, that is true.”

Dixon and the retainers held their heads down.

Last year, Luke had tried to develop mines with the debt of the Alon firm, but he hadn’t succeeded in doing it.

The retainers felt very sorry for their Young Lord because he was deceived by the falcons who only needed fortune.

“I’m glad that you have succeeded.”

“Yeah, I too am looking forward and waiting for the results.”

Luke was trying to hand over the 3 developed mines in Mt. Rockia to the Volga Refugees.

That way, the gold, and silver could be legally invested into the development of the estate.

With 300,000 pesos now, he didn’t have to worry about the financial crisis.

However, more money was needed to be raised if he had to go against the imperial family or the Veritas Magic Tower.

“And when the town is done, the farmland needs to be developed.”

At the words of Luke, all the retainers nodded their heads.

In order for a land to develop, food production had to be done at a significant quantity.

The high nobles were currently struggling in the Rhodesia Continent with large lands, there was currently a large population and army which needed a lot of food to support.

But, till the very time, Rakan Viscount had always brought in food from the other territories because they had no farmland.

Luke decided to clear out lands because he didn’t want to bring in food from outside, he needed to provide the refugees with jobs.

The problem was, it wasn’t that easy.

“At the north of the manor there is flat land, but water isn’t available there.”

The agriculture officer pointed to the map and said.

There have been numerous attempts to clear the land in the past too.

However, the reason for the failure was that rainfall was very low and there was no river passing through the estate.

Which meant that they had no choice but to draw out the water from a distance, around 20 kilometers from the nearest tributary of the Nair river.

Nevertheless, the rocks and the stones which blocked the way made it impossible to build waterways.

‘With the golems and monsters, the underground canal can be made.’

It would have been difficult to build waterways with humans.

There was a need for huge builds and strong power, so Luke decided to use the Golems until the mana supply was cut off.

“I’ll find out more about that problem.”

“I understand.”

“By the way, how is Count Monarch?”

At the question of Luke’s, Hans, the butler had responded,

“At the Imperial council, he has filed for a war stating that we had killed off his Scorpion Cavalry. This is just an assumption, but I think that the request would be denied soon.”

The moment the words of Hans were done, the retainers in the room began to curse the Count.

“That Pig! We have never even seen the Scorpion Cavalry!”

“That is right. We crossed just a little of their territory to bring in the Volga refugees, but never collided with the Count’s soldiers!”

The retainers were right, they had never met the Scorpion Cavalry.

Surely, Luke knew it too, he tried to calm down the retainers like he wasn’t aware of the situation either.

“Ah, calm down all of you. Didn’t we know that we’ll have to go to war with the Count anyway? How’s our preparation?”

Asked Luke to the Knight Rogers.

“We recently recruited more than 300 troopers, especially young men who have just returned home. The training isn’t that bad either.”

They could probably recruit a thousand more, but Rogers didn’t intend to do that.

It was because the modern warfare centered on Gigants or the cavalry.

Infantry was used only for rear security, searches, and patrolling so there wasn’t a need for many people in the situation,

“Sir Mute?”

“Thanks to the support of the young Lord, we were able to provide service to all the five scrap Gigants in the warehouse. As it was the young Lord’s orders to keep the matter of the Gigants a secret, no one but the retainers knows about it.”

The five Gigants weren’t being used for the civil construction which had been happening.

When the war burst out, he was planning to use them as daggers.

“Good work. Our estate has a lot of objective power. But you all know that war isn’t just about overpowering the enemy.”

In order to win, it is important to have strategies and tactics; make a good use of them to increase their power.

Unification, deception, and the ability to spy on an enemy were factors that figured victory or defeat.

“Don’t neglect anything until the moment we see our opponent on the other side.”

“We’ll follow the orders, young Lord!”

All the retainers rose and stomped their feet at the words of Luke.

They were very tightly knit for the first time since the estate had been born.

Luke, who was very satisfied with their actions, discussed another hour with them and went to the Devil King’s castle.