Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire

After the leader fell, the ogres' morale had already collapsed. These man-eating monsters fled in all directions, trying to escape the dreadful slaughter. But the magic dragon knights gave them no chance, continuing to pursue and kill these human enemies from the sky.

It is foreseeable that as long as these magic dragon knights are given enough time, all the ogres will be slaughtered by them completely, as the combat power and cognition of both sides are on entirely different levels.

"What do you think of such a performance?"

"Unexpected, very satisfactory."

"Astounding!"

The performance of every magic-guided dragon knight on the battlefield was synchronized to the distant Uther Royal City. These knights slaughtering the enemies of humanity so effortlessly amazed every onlooker.

"No one can refuse such warriors, but I want to know, how much does their weaponry and equipment cost?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the originally warming royal council chamber suddenly went silent. All the royal family elders' eyes turned to Alexander, whose smile was gradually disappearing.

"Your Majesty, is this some kind of unspeakable secret?"

"Of course not."

The muscles on Alexander's cheek twitched. Although his throne was increasingly stable and his authority was expanding, as a monarch of the third generation, he still had to face many restraints from his family, from the nation, and too many forces were restraining him, preventing him from doing as he pleased as before.

Now, if he wants to reorganize the royal knight order, he must gain the family's support; otherwise, he can't mobilize a large amount of funds.

This is also the helplessness of being a monarch. Although he is the possessor of the highest royal authority, the royal authority is also born within the order, so he must also obey and uphold the established rules.

Even as a legend, he cannot ignore the opinions of the family elders. Although the family is not large now, according to the rules set by his father, every family member who can bear the Augustus surname is a rare elite, not to mention these elders in front of him, each of whom has the potential to reach legend.

Therefore, whatever Alexander wishes to do, he cannot bypass these family elders. For instance, if he wants to form an integrated dragon rider group, he must obtain the support of these clan elders.

Thus, he exhausted his private treasury's assets, used the many technologies obtained from his uncle, and the armament purchased at cost price to form a small knight squad.

Coincidentally, receiving a call for help from a border city, Alexander seized this opportunity to demonstrate the power of the newly formed dragon rider group to the clan elders, hoping to gain their support.

"Since it's not a secret, I ask Your Majesty to explain. Such powerful warriors, no family or nation wouldn't want to have them, but we also need to know what kind of price must be paid to have such a powerful warrior."

"According to preliminary calculations, it costs about thirty million Golden Dragon Coins to cultivate a single magic-guided dragon knight!"

"How much?"

"Thirty million? Just to cultivate a single golden realm dragon knight?"

"What are you joking about? If a knight order were formed with such knights, a fully organized knight order of three hundred people would cost nearly ten billion Golden Dragon Coins?

The kingdom's annual tax revenue is less than twenty billion, and after deducting various necessary expenditures, in the most years of tax surplus under King Ulnos's reign, it was only two point three billion.

Even estimating based on the best year's surplus, even if it takes ten years, it's impossible to establish a fully organized magic dragon knight order."

As soon as Alexander finished speaking, the royal family's elders' agitated and fervent voices resounded one after another, because the price Alexander quoted was indeed too shocking.

Because it's known that spending between one hundred thousand to three hundred thousand gold coins might cultivate a radiant gold-level transcendent, if a million-level resource is smashed down, even a pig could be pushed to the golden level.

Thirty million gold coins, even estimating based on the worst-case scenario, could cultivate thirty radiant gold-level transcendents, and the actual situation is only more than that.

But now such a massive amount of funds is thrown on one person, although it results in a knight who can effortlessly crush at the golden realm level, yet this scale of resources can entirely be used to stack an extreme intent, which can still crushingly attack radiant gold realm transcendents.

"Don't be too agitated, thirty million is only the current price. The technology to create magic-guided knights is still immature, making the cost high, but as long as the technology continues to develop, the cost can still be further reduced.

Do you know that the initial magic armor, not counting the corresponding weapons, merely its cost alone spent thirty-five million gold coins, and now with all weapons included, the total price can even be controlled at twenty-seven million."

Seeing the reaction of these clan elders, Alexander couldn't help but sigh. He knew that as soon as he stated the price, such a situation would inevitably arise,

"We must continue to invest and improve the technology, and the price can be reduced to a level that satisfies us."

"Even if the cost can continue to decrease, starting at thirty million, how low can it end up even if the technology becomes mature? Not to mention thirty million, even three million is hard to accept."