Late at night, Richard had fallen asleep for a long time.

This was a dreamless night, and the deepest sleep allowed his body, which was on the verge of overdrawn, to slowly recover. The powerful magic and energy recovery potion concentrated this process several times.

An old saying is popular in the gray dwarf tribe: time is gold coins. But it refers to the time of ordinary people or secondary planes. For example, people like Richard and even Su Helen can no longer be measured simply by gold coins, especially their main plane time.

Richard knew that he had taken the most important step, so he slept very deeply and peacefully. The depression over the past few days seemed to have been vented by the rushing horses of iron armor. However, he still did not fully realize how much impact his magic pattern structure brought to other people, even the entire dark blue.

Stevenson's residential area is larger than Richard, and the floor is three floors higher. To outsiders, this not only shows His Highness's favor and attention, but also a symbol of his prominent identity as a child of a great noble family. Only Stevenson himself knows how much the price he paid to maintain this kind of decency.

Richard's residential area is completely free, while Stevenson needs to pay full rent for larger and more functional residential areas.

Even for Stivison, who nominally has the full support of the Solam family, the monthly rent of nearly 300,000 imperial gold coins is a very heavy burden. He also needs to pay twice the tuition fee. Although the Duke of Solam has paid his tuition for the next few years in one go, the cost of his coming to Semir to study this time is not calculated in this way. Even if it is not amortized monthly according to professional methods, the interest that should have been generated by this huge sum is still a considerable number.

Of course, the resources of the huge family of Solam cannot be invested only in Stevenson. A large part of the reason why he can impress the family council is the family's desire for a large builder with its own bloodline, which is also the unanimous desire of any slightly ambitious family on the mainland. Randolph was originally the candidate, but his stupidity made him fail before he started. Stevenson seized the opportunity to convince the family council that he was not only a dragon vein warlock, but also had the potential for a builder, and his own resources exceeded Randolph. He has also begun to participate in family affairs in recent years and showed extraordinary talents.

However, the family's investment needs to see returns. Especially after the Randolph incident, the family's patience became more and more limited. Duke Solam has become a legend and it takes at most two or three years to consolidate the realm, and it is time for large-scale expansion.

In addition, Stivison also bears Minnie's tuition. Because after the engagement was established, Marquis Neo couldn't wait to stop paying all the fees for his daughter.

The front-line war is indeed tight, and Marquis Neo's financial situation is on the verge of collapse. Moreover, since the war is mainly burning in the Marquis' territory, it is still a big question whether the Marquis can support it until the end of next year. In the final analysis, it is because the Marquis' subordinates are too incompetent. Of course, in Stevenson's mind, the uncle who led Solam reinforcements should also be added to the sequence of incompetent people.

The coalition of Neo and Solam already have an absolute advantage in military strength and are fighting on familiar terrain, but they have been unable to achieve the battle of Alice for a long time. Not to mention encircling and annihilation or defeating her small army, even if they are defeated head-on, they have never really been defeated.

This woman has a very keen sense of smell on the battlefield and is erratic in her use of troops. Once she finds the weak link of her opponent, she is like thunder and extremely cruel. With less than one-third of her opponent's troops, she fights on a not-so-complex terrain, but she makes the coalition forces of Neo and Solam run around and exhaust. Moreover, she destroys the fields, mines, forests and towns in Neo, and all resources are plundered, and those that cannot be moved will be destroyed on the spot. So whenever she goes, the Marquis is heartbroken and unable to fall asleep.

Neo's one-sided weakness also made several of the great nobles bordering him feel ready, and Solam's strong intervention also paid the corresponding price. As the battle situation fell into a stalemate, most of the profits Solam obtained from the Marquis of Neo had disappeared. If Alice continues like this, it will soon turn into a loss.

The latest news from Stivison was that the Solam family had decided that if the woman could not be resolved within a week, then we would talk to her about peace. As for the issue of war compensation, it would give Neo a headache.

For more than half a year, Stevenson had already taken care of his residential area and decorated it with a taste. But now, the sound of various utensils breaking from his bedroom area constantly came from the sound of various utensils. One by one, the exquisite and elegant works of art were smashed hard by Stevenson on the wall, and the ground was splashed everywhere. Several pieces even passed through Stevenson's face, leaving a few faint blood marks. The heavy burden of tangible or invisible pressure made him almost breathless. He could vent something slightly, but it was just a temporary solution. But now he only wanted to vent, otherwise he would definitely go crazy.

"It's Archmond again! It's Archmond again! They are all a group of madmen! Devils! The guys who should go to hell! Why are they all coming to block my way!!" Stevenson roared madly and cursed, but this was not enough to vent the anger accumulated in his heart.

However, there is nothing to smash in the bedroom, only an ancient vase made of crystals inlaid with fine gold is left. This is the collection that a certain emperor once cherished the most. Putting aside the unmeasurable value of art and time, it is just to cut the fine gold and the best magic amethyst to sell, and it is more than one million gold coins. Stevenson himself cannot afford this top-notch artistic treasure. In fact, it is one of the private collections of Duke Solam, and it is placed here for Stevenson to hold the facade.

Stevenson's rage was also restrained. He smashed a few thousand ornaments, and even Richard stepped on his face in public, he did not dare to touch a single finger.

Minnie stood quietly in the corner, lonely and beautiful. She was the age when flowers were blooming. Her beautiful figure and cold and arrogant temperament were even more colorful to the vivid youth. However, there were also a few thin red lines of cut marks on her face and arms, and Stevenson's rage also affected her. The splashing fragments were not recognized by others.

Seeing Minnie, Stevenson suddenly became angry again. In his eyes, Minnie was not a beautiful girl, a genius mage, but a huge black hole of gold coins. Minnie's tuition fee was only one-fifth of his, but the absolute amount was not large. Although her living area was not as big as Stevenson and Richard, it was not smaller than an ordinary magician, so the rent paid for her living area was even more than her tuition fee. Among these two items, the cost of her practicing magic was not included.

For the Solam family, it is not difficult to support one more Minnie. But when Stevenson's own expenses have reached an astonishing number, adding Minnie's part makes people breathless.

On the sinking ship, even if the weight of a small piece of stone is added, it will make the people on the ship feel suffocated.

Stivison knew very well that after using such a huge investment from Duke Solam, he had no room for failure. The lives of legendary figures will be greatly extended. In Duke Solam's long life, there will never be a lack of sons and daughters, and there will be no less talented people.

Stivison's enlightenment teacher had long told him that before becoming a real strong man, geniuses are nothing. I don't know how many geniuses are born on the mainland every year, and only those who have sufficient resources can grow. Those who cannot get resources can only bear a seemingly brilliant empty title, and before they become adults. Because when they grow up, they are really nothing, even worse than ordinary people, and their former halo will become the shadow of their future lives.

Randolph is a recent example.

Stevenson was extremely eager for success and was afraid of failure at the same level, because the road he had walked had been completely transformed into a deep abyss that led to hell, even if he only took a small step back, he would be crushed to pieces.

A mere dragon vein sorcerer is not worthy of such huge funding, and his reputation as a long-sleeved dancer in the social circle is not worth so many gold coins. As for the management of family affairs, as an ancient family that has lasted for more than one generation, there are countless managerial talents. In fact, in order to get the opportunity to become Su Hailun’s inheritance architect, in addition to the family and Duke Solam’s personal resources, he also invested a lot of manpower and material resources from the matriarch. Once the family decides to give up, his fate will not be much better than those busy and dedicated to making money outside the deep blue inner ring area.

However, on the single-plank bridge leading to the builder, Richard's newly grown figure lies in front of Stevenson like the "God's Chains" Augustine Mountains, and it remained unmoved.

The engagement he had made with Minnie his own initiative made the Duke of Solam pay a lot more. In fact, it cannot be blamed for Stivison. He acted according to the laws of aristocratic society and made a decision that was most beneficial to his future development under the circumstances, because in addition to the patriarchal family, the matriarchal family and the wife family are also extremely important resources. But who could have thought that Marquis Neo would be so shameless and ruthless that he would directly throw his best daughter to the Solam family?

So Stevenson almost roared against Minnie's face: "You! You said, what's the use of asking you now? Besides paying you a large amount of tuition fees every month, what else can you help me! Should I help me improve in construction studies, or help me win the favor of my teacher?! You said! Now that Richard has already thrown me away from me, what do you want me to do?"

Seeing Minnie's silence, Stivison could hardly suppress his emotions. He sneered and said, "I almost forgot that you are still a woman, at least you can use it to bed. Now, take off me naked and roll onto the bed!"

Minnie did not argue or resist, but silently took off all her clothes, lay on the bed, and spread her legs apart. When she did all this, her expression was very calm. But after lying down, she turned her face to the side so that she could not stop the tears shed.

Minnie closed her eyes tightly, not waiting for the expected violent collision. After a moment, there was no movement. She couldn't help but open her eyes and saw Stevenson standing by the bed, holding a bottle of strong wine, and sipping hard from time to time. His eyes passed over Minnie's body and staring at the floating ice bay outside the window. The harbor in the night was not completely dark, the omnipresent ice reflected a strange glimmer, and there was no sign of biological activity, which seemed particularly stern and cold.

He looked at Minnie and said coldly: "You are a smart woman. Now is not the time for you to be willful or tantrums. If I can't become a designer, then everything is over. Status, honors, money, strength, nothing. You should be clear about this. Marquis Neo has abandoned you, and your destiny is completely tied to me. You should feel lucky, because a great noble family like us still respects the formal engagement, so I am also temporarily

There is no idea of ​​abandoning the engagement. So, you need to fight for the future for yourself now, prove that you are useful to me, the Solam family, and prove that you are worthy of the monthly expenditure of 500,000 gold coins. If you can't do it, or don't want to do it, then I won't force you, you will get out of the deep blue next month! I believe that no one will be willing to pay 500,000 gold coins for a broken marquis' daughter, a woman who has been used, every month!" The last few words, Stevenson yelled out with a slightly drunkenness.

Minnie looked up at the ceiling blankly, motionless.

Stivison is the truth, and she must not lose the funding of the Solam family. If she had no money, her status would not only plummet, but her situation would be worse than Erin. Because of her once noble status, there would be many men who wanted to leave something in her body. And her magical talent was simply an insignificant factor at this time.
Chapter completed!