Chapter 248: Cantonment

Two thousand meters above North Grennola Ocean;

*Bam* *Bam* *Bam*

A hundred-meter-long pillar was swinging around, beating up common and Elite grade winged monsters.

Wil was in his Neo-hybrid form. So, while his attack power increased by 30%, he wasn't receiving the additional EXP but he didn't care about this minute EXP as his sole aim is to decrease the hostility.

For two days straight, Wil cleared the skies of North Grennola Ocean and was currently in search of a certain legendary grade creature that should have been revived by now.

After searching for several hours, he finally found the herd.

They are a group of Wyverns. 12 female Wyverns are around the large male Wyvern that's twice the size of them.

The females are of heroic grade while the male is of Legendary grade.

"Good…" Wil smiled as he finally found them. Looking at his name that's almost in Lavender, he mumbled, "I hope the name will be cleared finally."

"Ruyi… Grow... 1000 meters."

Suddenly, the pillar shot up towards his left side for a km of length while decreasing his mana by 1000. The lower-grade beasts that were on the way got scared for a second and fly away to escape.

Meanwhile, he only increased the width to 50 centimeters at most so that he can get a good grip.

"Mighty swing, activate"

Grabbing it tightly, he swung towards the group like a baseball bat, killing all the level-250 beasts instantly as a critical hit landed on every beast.

*Ding! You killed Sky Wyvern. You receive 6,400,000 EXP

*Ding! Seraph's Dragon bow consumed 50% of your acquired EXP. 3,200,000 EXP has been deducted.

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*Ding! You killed Sky Wyvern King. You receive 102,400,000 EXP

*Ding! Seraph's Dragon Bow consumed 50% of acquired EXP. 51,200,000 EXP has been deducted.

*Ding! You level up.

"Yes…" Wil screamed out in happiness as he saw the color of his name changed to deep red, which is still okay as long as he stays within his kingdom where he is the Prince.

Time Traveler: Akiko-san, I'm done here. Let's meet up at Scarlet Town.

In no time, he received a reply from his future fiancée.

Athena: Finally, you are done… I'm getting bored, staying here without doing anything.

Both of them met at the Vulture City before proceeding towards the Fort.

He then called for an assembly. But unlike the previous one, this time, there are four more people, mayors of the NPC towns tagged along with the Chief Minister of the Vulture City.

The majority of them wondered who this beautiful woman is as they saw Akiko beside Wil. Is she a new official?

Only the Prime Minister wasn't surprised about her presence.

Wil didn't bother to introduce her to others and get directly to the point.

"I'm opening the town of Scarlet. Announce to all the people of our state that the land is fertile and suitable for farming but only the families of soldiers are allowed to live.

So, if anyone is interested to join the military and serve Ormshire, their immediate families can live without paying any tax. All of them will also be given land to farm.

Also, hire people for official posts at bank, Associations, Administration, etc… Scarlet Town is going to be our Cantonment." 

After announcing his decision, Wil looked at the Prime Minister, "I'm giving you two days. Is that enough?"

"One day is enough, Your Majesty," Edan answered as he bowed.

"Good." Wil nodded and then looked at the strongest person in the room excluding himself, "General Remont, report me the situation going of the Army."

General Remont who is now a level-400 warrior after the update, replied, "Your Majesty, we have a total of 8923 members in our army which is divided into four divisions. 4912 Infantry, 1234 Archers, 1457 Healers, and 1320 Mages.

So far, we have raised 3421 soldiers who are between level 100-200, 1346 soldiers between Level 200-300, 57 soldiers between level 300-400. The remaining 4098 are still in training but I'm sure, within a month's time, every soldier can be a level-200."

Wil shook his head, "we don't have that much time. I'll give you a week and add a hundred thousand gold coins for the defense budget. You have to recruit more people.

Soon, you will also meet fellow soldiers from our Llyne kingdom. They will help you out. I hope you will co-operate with them and strengthen our defense further."

General Remont quickly kneeled on his one leg and bowed, "Thank you, Your majesty. I'll try to the best of my abilities and give you satisfactory results within a week."

Meanwhile, the others are surprised that the defense budget is increasing once again, this time a whole lot more.

Since they only have 150 thousand gold coins in the Treasury, the treasurer Wymer got worried and interrupted, "I apologize, Your Majesty. But, allotting such a huge amount to the defense will rise to the problems in administration."

Wil waved his hands, "don't worry about that. I'll add another three hundred thousand gold coins to the treasury."

"300 thousand?" The officials were once again shocked. They remembered the times when they operated the city with just 10-20 thousand gold coins.

At the same time, Akiko was also taken aback by surprise

In the auction, Wil already spent nearly 800 thousand gold coins. She can't believe Wil still has more money.

At first, she thought it might be because Wil was using the treasury but their investigations told that the Ormshire state is poor before the revival. It was only after Wil became the ruler, there is progress.

That means, he has a lot of gold coins in his inventory and was practically feeding the state without any profits. She concluded that he bought them with real currency or he might have stumbled upon a treasure.

Although Akiko was able to conclude about his source, she wasn't able to understand why he was doing it.

Even if it's private land, it's not worth according to her view. So, she became more curious about solving this mysterious jigsaw puzzle.

***

Eldershore City, Llyne Kingdom;

"Hah! After so long…" With a tiny pillar in his hand that's look like a 30cm ruler, Wil stepped out of the teleportation formation.

He didn't hide his face because of the deep red name which still terrified the NPCs around.

As he was walking in the streets, the guards kept on stopping him as if he was suspicious but then, after finding his identity, they knelt on the ground for forgiveness.

It happened too many times that made Wil extremely annoyed but he forced himself to keep his cool. He already had a deep red name, he can't afford to go on a killing spree now.

He went straight to the bank.

The reactions weren't that much different from when he has a purple name.

"Your Highness…" The Elves the bank greeted him, ignoring the customers in the lines.

As he didn't hide his identity, the forums are already full of Time Traveler being spotted at Eldershore city's bank with a deep red name. How many players/innocent NPCs did he kill?

Wil, who doesn't have any idea what's going on, skipped the line and stood before one of the counters.

Some of them became angry but they can't do anything about it. One is that the city belongs to him and two, he's too strong. As they tried to inspect him, they found his HP is already comparable to that of a level-300 legendary grade beast.