Though Danyla's wedding was very simple in form, its cost was the highest in recorded history. More than ten million gold dragons had been handed out.
Once again, the world was stunned. Many powers that had still been waiting and watching made up their minds then and there: they would never dare provoke Danyla again.
This woman's boldness was beyond anything even they, as men, could match.
Ten million gold dragons were enough to fund a kingdom-wide war, yet Danyla had simply scattered them among the city's commoners. And that amounted to less than a tenth of the cash Daemon and his men had seized in Myr City.
As Daemon had promised the various houses, thirty percent of the spoils from this battle had already been distributed among those houses and the soldiers.
The most precious treasures, along with forty percent of the spoils personally selected by Daemon, had been sent straight to Holy Flame Island as betrothal gifts.
Twenty percent had been set aside for Myr's postwar reconstruction and future reserves.
Danyla's decision to scatter money throughout the city quickly won Myr City's allegiance, and the various new policies were implemented smoothly.
Danyla understood perfectly well that the one eternal constant in this world was self-interest. Now that Daemon and his men had purged all the nobles and wealthy merchants of Myr City, new powers were urgently needed to rise and take their place.
Many merchants from Holy Flame Island and Oldtown had quietly entered Myr's markets at the earliest opportunity, while Danyla's distribution of money undoubtedly gave some of Myr's small merchants and commoners the capital they needed to rise.
Once this new power structure took shape, neither the remnants of Myr's old nobility nor outside powers would find it easy to gain a foothold.
And to protect