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Faced with Solam's utterly shameless extortion, all the noble representatives could do was hold their noses and accept it...

There was no helping it. They knew they had no good way of dealing with an adult red dragon. Since Solam had been able to slaughter one, he was obviously not someone they could afford to provoke. Since that was the case, there was no need for pointless resistance.

Because they had come to this realization, all of Solam's demands were approved. The process went so smoothly that even Solam felt he had asked for too little. Had he known it would be this easy, he would have made even more outrageous demands.

Still, this was not bad either. Although Solam had not demanded many particularly valuable items, most of what he asked for was daily necessities and food. There was just a slightly larger quantity of it—enough supplies to support five thousand people for a year. If Solam had had to gather all this himself, it would have exhausted him to death. But it was different for these noble representatives. They were local powers; to them, these matters were no big deal. They could resolve them easily.

And to be honest, they would not have to pay for most of it themselves... The wool came from the sheep. The money would come from either Marco or the commoners. As long as they were not the ones being bled, everything was fine...

It had to be said that Marco was merely an annoying fellow to Solam, but to Crimmor's commoners, he was an unquestionable guardian. At the very least, because of his existence, the nobles could not fleece the people as they pleased. That was why Crimmor City's lower and middle classes supported Marco so strongly.

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