Era of Castles: Starting with 99 Dragon Eggs

Chapter 324: Building an Intelligence Network

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The short-term version of the financial plan described in detail the ways of doing business, making everyone feel as if they were holding a map in their hands. It was as simple as following the instructions to reach their goals by following the route planned on the map.

Osme looked at the financial plan and said, “Food, herbs, cloth, salt, tea... These are things that only ordinary people can use, and they are not worth much money. Can we earn money from this?”

Little Jerry put his hands together and looked at the crowd.

“The price of rice in the City of Gods is 300 copper coins per stone, while the price of rice in Dajue City, which is 5,000 miles away, can reach 413 copper coins per stone. If we work hard, we can earn at least 100,000 gold coins per trip, and the difference in the price of barley is even greater.”

“When we come back, we can also bring the local specialty products and return to the city to earn another 10,000 gold coins. Moreover, if we can catch more Golden-winged Geese and lower the transportation cost, we can earn more. Moreover, we don’t have to worry about getting robbed. After all, the strong don’t like these things, and the weak can’t beat us. I think that if we follow this method, we should be able to quickly accumulate our first bucket of gold. With these things, we can hire low-level mercenaries first, get a few stable industries, and then take out a large portion of the money to establish a complete intelligence network. We can keep an eye on the market prices at all times to react to any changes in the situation.”

Hayden said, “That makes sense, but asking us to transport these things is a little too low-value.”

Little Jerry smiled and said, “Although it’s a little low-class, this is indeed the beginning of our Dragon Castle. After we build our own signboard, we’ll recruit some high-star high-level military experts. Then, you won’t have to do these things.”

Hearing this, everyone looked at Little Jerry with admiration.

Osme stood up and said to Little Jerry, “I was insensible before, please forgive me, Mike.”

Little Jerry smiled and said, “It’s okay.”

Mike smiled and said, “My brother knows how to make money.”

Just like that, the mercenary group began to move. They split up and traveled back and forth between the various big cities, selling goods. In just a few months, they had accumulated tens of millions of gold coins. The local leaders did not dare to voice their anger. After all, no one who sold food could afford to hire a heaven-tier powerhouse.

The Dragon Castle had also established a complete intelligence network, covering 100,000 miles with City of Gods as the center. The prices of every type of necessary civilian items would eventually be transmitted to Little Jerry, who would then assign tasks. This greatly improved the efficiency of making money.

Under Little Jerry’s suggestion, Mike also established mercenary groups, intelligence groups, transportation groups, mining groups, mission groups, and business groups. There were more than 1,000 people, all of whom were carefully selected and trusted by the Dragon.

The scale of Dragon Castle was almost the same as the lord of Gray Snake Castle.

“The first half of the southern mine earned a net profit of 130 million gold coins, and the northwest grain path earned 80 million gold coins...”

Everyone sat around the table and reported the income situation to Mike and Little Jerry for the past six months.

Hearing the figures from everyone, Mike was a little excited.

After Little Jerry listened to everyone’s report, he said to Mike, “I think we can proceed with the further recruitment work.”

Osme asked in puzzlement, “Isn’t the recruitment going on all the time?”

Little Jerry shook his head and said, “I’m talking about the high-end combat power of the heaven-tier. We’re still too few, so we can’t act as a strategic unit. To tell you the truth, we’ve been having frequent conflicts with the previous Castle Lords in the past few months. Although the other castles have also had conflicts with each other, the frequency and number of conflicts between them are far lower than ours. Obviously, they’re xenophobic. Our current strength is not enough to gain their respect. We have to strengthen our forces again so that they’ll pay us enough attention and respect.”

Mike nodded and said, “Dragon, you’ll be in charge of recruiting. Remember, reliability is the first priority, strength is second. Don’t worry about the price, we’ll soon have a new source of funds.”

Mike and Little Jerry looked at each other and smiled knowingly.

One day after that, Dragon came back from Mocheng, which was 100,000 miles away. He brought back four heaven-tier powerhouses, two men and two women.

All the heaven-tier powerhouses in the Dragon Castle rushed back one after another to get to know these four new members.

Dragon stood in front of everyone, pointed at one of the girls, and said, “Magical Wizard, illusionist, heaven-tier 1-star.”

The Magical Wizard smiled at Mike and the others. Mike and the other men only felt an intense desire burning in their hearts. However, who could be so shameless as to make a move on such an occasion? The men suppressed the desire in their hearts.

The Magical Wizard’s expression changed, and she smiled.

“I’ve long heard that the Dragon Castle has many experts and subordinates. I didn’t believe it, but after seeing it today, I realized that that I was ignorant.”

Osme muttered, “Vixen.”

Mike coughed lightly, and then glared at Osme. Osme stuck his tongue out at Mike.

Mike said apologetically to Magical Wizard,

“I’m sorry, Osme was just joking. Don’t take it to heart.”

Although Magical Wizard’s expression was ugly, after sensing Osma’s strength, she selectively chose to forget about this matter.

Dragon continued to point at the second woman.

“This is Rui’en, a heaven-tier 1-star Summoner.”

Rui’en timidly greeted everyone.

Dragon pointed at the man beside Rui’en and said, “This is Kerry, Rui’en’s brother, a 5-star heaven-tier Summoner.”

Everyone greeted Kerry one by one.

Dragon pointed at the last person and said, “This is the King Slayer, nicknamed Demon Slayer, a 5-star heaven-tier summoner.”

Everyone looked at the King Slayer in surprise. Then, they looked at Mike. For a moment, no one knew what to say.

There was no other reason. The Demon Slayer also lost an arm. Like Mike, he also lost his right arm.

The King Slayer said, “Did you kill Carpenter?”

Mike nodded.

“Well, fight with me. If you beat me, I will work for you for free.”

Philip stood up and smiled.

“Hey, you, don’t cut the line. I made an appointment to duel with Mike first. If you want to fight, you should queue behind me.”

The King Slayer turned around and said, “You are very strong, at least stronger than an ordinary 3-star heaven-tier powerhouse, but you are not as strong as me.”