633 Confidence Part 2 (1/2)

Even though Aini knew a little about Saleen and where he received his training in the past, he was still taken aback by Saleen's background. Aini could not help but admire his parents' foresight. The Fellets had really bet everything on Saleen.

The happiest amongst everyone must be Guya and her family. As women, even though their status in Qin was already higher compared to other empires, they would never be considered as the leader of their families, much less have the possibility of becoming Duchesses.

Initially, they supported Saleen because they saw business opportunities. Now, it seemed that aside from wealth, they would also have the opportunity to earn a hereditary Duchess position.

Saleen pondered deeply for a while. The construction of demon city was halfway done and would be completed in the next six months. Within a year, they would be able to summon about ten-thousand demons. By the time the Sregl Island mages arrived, Saleen would be able to build the first camp of the demon army.

With the demon army, Saleen's own armies would no longer require so many mages and they would be able to stay in Metatrin City to help in construction. After one and a half years, Saleen would not have to worry about the defense of Metatrin City.

Saleen's teacher would also be bringing along combat vessels, sailors, and swordmasters. Regardless if it was on land or sea, every possible loophole could be filled with winged skeleton and Three Kings.

By then, these noble families would no longer need to keep too many private soldiers by their side in Metatrin City.

”Everyone, Metatrin Kingdom needs to expand its territories, but we are allies with Bitter Water Prefecture. We will not attack Phoenix for the time-being. We will set our sights on Laiyin Duchy.”

”The four Dukes can have one-thousand private soldiers and lead up to thirty-thousand soldiers while the twelve Earls can have six-hundred private soldiers and lead up to ten-thousand soldiers. Every private soldier can be supported by three auxiliary soldiers. For the conventional armies that you lead, I can sell equipment to you at cost price. I will soon be establishing a joint bank with Viscountess Lex and everyone will enjoy the privilege of top-tier loans.”

Everyone heaved a sigh of relief after Saleen touched on the issue of military. Usually when a country was still in its early stages, low-level noble families would not have the power to have private soldiers or lead armies. Clearly, Saleen did not intend to restrict them in this aspect. Although the number of private soldiers had been reduced, the limit for soldiers they could lead had been increased.

Besides, Saleen has given them discounts on the purchase of equipment and they also had the option of loans. This meant that Saleen was using concrete actions to show his support for the noble families to expand their powers.

With loans, they would be able to recruit more soldiers to take over more lands. Some of these lands might even be rewarded to them.

”Now that Viscountess Lex has returned back to her country, western town's defense was left with ten-thousand soldiers. Although the numbers are sufficient, in two months' time, the Holy See's army will reach the west of Metatrin City. I have already sent an army there to delay them. Nevertheless, I expect their army to be one-hundred-thousand strong by the time they arrive here. For the next two months, everyone can recruit soldiers and stop the Holy See's army at western town.”

”My Lord, we don't have enough money at hand!” The first Earl on Saleen's right said.

”Western town already has ten-thousand men and can take in a maximum of forty-thousand more soldiers. All of you will only need to recruit three-thousand men each. There is a ten story magic tower there so it will help a lot for defense. Unless the Holy See army split up their forces, otherwise just hold the town. You don't have to engage.”

Everyone thought about it carefully and realized that it was true. Western town was not big and could only hold an army of fifty-thousand. With another twenty-thousand logistics soldiers, there was no room for residents. It would be simpler to defend the town without having to care for the safety of residents. On top of that, there would be two grade-9 sorcerers guarding the magic tower that Saleen would be building so the enemy would only be able to attack from the west. It would be easy for fifty-thousand men to defend one side of the city wall that was only a mile wide.

As long as the enemy did not possess any large equipment like war puppets, there should not be too many casualties from defending western town.

Although the noble families would be spending their own money to defend western town for Saleen, this would be their first opportunity to perform meritorious service for this new kingdom. How they performed this time around would determine whether they could become noble families of even higher tiers.

When these noble families came to Metatrin City, they still had about three-hundred to five-hundred private soldiers with them. It would not be too difficult to expand this number. After the battle was over, everyone would have the chance to select the capable soldiers to become their own private soldiers.

Saleen actually wanted to let them participate in this battle partly to let these noble families start to expand their powers. Saleen could not possibly spend his own money to help them expand their armies.

Saleen easily helped the noble families settle down after explaining clearly the terms and conditions of getting loans. The twelve Earls left to prepare for recruitment of soldiers while the four Dukes stayed behind.

Guya and the rest were different from the Earls. Their families were not in trouble at all. These young men and women simply detested the old-fashioned rules that their families were still sticking to and just wanted independence. They were all wealthier than the twelve Earls and were also able to offer more men and resources.

Guya and the rest even had grand mages and zun grand swordmasters under their command. Now that they have been given titles and received new clan badges, they had officially become independent from their families. Saleen has prepared for them the titles of third-grade Dukes, which far surpassed the status of the leaders of their families.