The Longshan Family's logistics officers charged into Vias with a large contingent of soldiers. Waving fistfuls of gold coins, they swept up all the fresh meat, cured meat, live poultry, and livestock in the city. They ransacked every drop of fine wine as if they were robbers, directly forcing all the taverns near Port Vias's harbor district to close early that day.
Some idle onlookers did the calculations. The Longshan Family had brought twenty thousand land dragon mounts, and the amount of meat these enormous land dragons consumed every day was a terrifyingly immense figure. Just to feed them, the Longshan Family had to spend hundreds of thousands of gold coins each day to support those twenty thousand land dragons.
The people of Vias gained another profound understanding of the Longshan Family's might and wealth!
With a brilliant smile, Lin Qi cheerfully accompanied Alda through the throng of nobles toward Egret Bay, the most scenic bay in Vias. While Lin Qi had been away from Vias, Alda had spent a vast sum to purchase the entirety of Egret Bay. After such a long period of rushed construction, a large dock had now been built within the bay, while an incomparably luxurious castle rose from the slopes beside it.
More than twenty heavy warships freshly built by the Longshan Family's shipyards were now moored at that dock.
As for the castle on the hillside, it had been built in a short time at any cost, with a large number of mages assisting in its construction. It spanned nearly five li in both length and width. Dozens of grand buildings, large and small, stood within it, joined by countless tower bridges, towers, magic towers, arrow towers, and more. This was plainly a military fortress.
When Lin Qi entered Egret Bay and saw