From Baron to Lord

After bringing everyone to the port of Nicaea, Allen rode the dragon back to Skywolf City, with Lucy accompanying him on its back. "Allen, why are we back here?" Lucy asked, slightly surprised, as Skywolf City was now devoid of people.

"Of course, it's for moving! I finally built Skywolf City with great effort, and I don't want to abandon it just like that," Allen said with a smile. He reached out with his right hand, and in the next moment, the entire Skywolf City vanished before Lucy's eyes. "Wow!" Lucy exclaimed, her eyes wide with amazement. "Allen, you're amazing!" Lucy said excitedly.

Allen smiled but didn't explain much. He guided the dragon swiftly across Skywolf Territory and the Stranfoss Mountains, arriving at the southern coast before anyone else.

After a brief wait, the first batch of ships arrived at the southern coast of the Duchy of Shark. "Oh! Is this Duke Allen's territory?"

Privileges existed in that world. The first ships carried nobles or high-ranking professionals, such as apothecaries, alchemists, dwarves, and of course, the families of Allen's warriors.

The speaker was Nick, who hadn't bothered to clean himself up in quite some time.

The apothecaries disembarking with him all looked dizzy, a testament to the stench emanating from him. "Hahaha, I've become the Duke's personal apothecary again!" Nick declared with a proud expression.

Allen ignored him, simply instructing someone to take him away.

Five or six hours later, everyone arrived at the coast, by which time it was already noon.

Allen led the massive crowd northwards across vast stretches of land, finally reaching the vicinity of Shark's capital after a considerable amount of time.

This place had vast plains and intersecting rivers, with abundant water and fertile land.

There were many small towns and villages around, and certainly enough open space to accommodate Skywolf City. "Boom!"

Upon reaching the capital, Allen immediately retrieved his Skywolf City from the Dragon's Nest, placing it on the plains not far from the capital.

The massive city landed on the ground with a resounding boom.

This scene was witnessed by all the people from Skywolf Territory and Thornflower Territory, and immediately, everyone erupted in excitement.

"A miracle! A miracle from the Lord!"

"Heavens! What am I seeing?!"

"This... this is a miracle!"

"Unbelievable, is this our lord, no, our Duke?"

"Praise the Duke!"

The appearance of Skywolf City filled the people of Skywolf Territory with unparalleled excitement.

Especially the commoners who had lived here before, they were very obedient and had taken almost nothing with them.

Now it seemed they had made the right choice.

Skywolf City was large enough, and many residential areas inside were still empty.

Initially, to make the most of Skywolf Territory, Allen selectively placed some of his people in small cities within Skywolf Territory.

Only in this way could the vast lands of Skywolf Territory have enough manpower to cultivate them.

If everyone was confined within Skywolf City, the entire territory would be ruined.

After all, it was impossible for everyone to set out from Skywolf City to cultivate the land throughout Skywolf Territory.

Especially places that were farther away, that was even more impossible.

Therefore, since the beginning, the people in Skywolf City, besides a portion who were farmers cultivating the surrounding land, were mostly merchants or artisans.

They did business in Skywolf City or lived by their crafts.

While the farmers lived in small towns and villages, responsible for farming.

This wasn't because Allen was biased, but because it was the best allocation method.

Of course, this also meant that Skywolf City had never been fully occupied.

In fact, large areas were still empty.

After all, it was a massive main city, even larger than Thornflower City, capable of accommodating all three hundred thousand people.

In other words, with Skywolf City, no one had to suffer from the cold outside anymore.

Allen smiled and allowed everyone to enter the city. Residents who had previously lived in the city could simply return to their homes.

As for those who had never lived in Skywolf City before, Allen entrusted them to the officials in charge of population and real estate.

Immediately, the entire Skywolf City became lively.

Sparrow and the others began to get busy.

A week later, the problems of Skywolf Territory were finally resolved. Not only that, Allen also demarcated a separate territory specifically for the people of Skywolf Territory and Thornflower Territory.

The orc construction team had already begun building small cities, after all, farmers were the mainstream in the territory, and small cities and towns were needed to divide the surrounding farmland.

Fortunately, it was winter, a time for rest, and Allen and his people had enough time to settle these commoners.

After settling the commoners, Allen immediately focused his attention on the entire Duchy.

"Oliver, have you completed the task I gave you?"

Allen sat on the Golden Throne, looking down at his subjects below.

This time, because he hadn't summoned the earls from various regions, only some ministers from the surrounding capital, Earl Albert, Marco, and Thomas were in the hall.

Oliver nodded. The bald Minister of Finance no longer trembled at the sight of Allen.

"It's ready, Your Excellency. Three days ago, I selected fifty rank six silver knights, the oldest of whom is only thirty years old. They are all geniuses from various regions."

Oliver said quickly, "Also, they don't have much connection with the dead earls, and they will definitely not be disloyal to Your Excellency because of their deaths."

Allen nodded in satisfaction. He rested his right hand on the armrest of the throne, supporting his head, with a hint of dominance in his handsome face.

"Very good, Marco, clear out the area in the palace dedicated to training knights, let them live there, and you will be responsible for teaching them."

Allen said casually, "Take them to Nick's place and let the high-level apothecaries work."

"Understood, my esteemed Lord."

Marco bowed slightly in response.

"Also, regarding the issue of the national treasury, Sparrow, come in."

Allen said towards the door. Soon, the shrewd Finance Officer Mr. Sparrow walked in.

"Oliver, this is my personal finance officer. From now on, you will both be my Ministers of Finance, with Sparrow in charge."

Allen said calmly. Oliver nodded immediately, although Allen was weakening his power, the minister dared not have the slightest dissatisfaction.

"Very good, Sparrow, starting today, build three major factories. Our country needs sufficient economic support. You decide the address and scale yourself."

Allen said to Sparrow.

"Yes, Your Excellency, leave it to me, I will definitely not let you down."

Sparrow said with a smile. He was in a very good mood, after all, he had jumped from a finance officer of an earldom to a Minister of Finance of a duchy, a position no less than a marquis!

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Chapter 256: The War Ends, Riding the Dragon North (1)

Half a month later, the civil war in the northern Norton Kingdom ended.

The sudden end of the war left many people a little dazed.

As Allen had expected, the new king killed Prince Leicester before the prince could react.

This foolish and greedy prince had already missed his chance to escape.

While focusing his attention on Allen in the south, he never thought that danger was getting closer and closer.

The fall of Duke Shark stunned Prince Leicester. When the news reached the north, the dragon knights in the north were all dumbfounded.

The eldest prince of the Norton Kingdom, who was now the new king of Norton, immediately realized that this was an opportunity to quickly eliminate Prince Leicester.

Sure enough, after hearing the news, the prince was furious!

He completely failed to notice the changes on the battlefield. Even when the new king broke through the prince's castle, he was still thinking about how to kill Allen.

The hateful guy who had repeatedly thwarted his plans.

Unfortunately, Prince Leicester had no chance.

His army was directly slaughtered by the elite warriors of the Norton Kingdom. Among the dragon knights he had recruited, besides Duke Shark, there were five others, all from under the command of the second and third princes.

No wonder the prince had the ambition to ascend to the throne, after all, he already believed that he had grasped the overall situation.

But he didn't know that everything he did was clearly seen by his eldest nephew.

Most of the dragon knights under the prince were people of the eldest prince, only one guy wasn't.

One can imagine the scene at that time.

An ambitious prince, preparing to lead his dragon knights to take the throne in one fell swoop, with an aura of swallowing mountains and rivers, when the original dragon knights under his command, four out of five were traitors!

When the eldest prince led his army in, Prince Leicester was horrified to discover that most of his men were someone else's people.

How could he fight this?

There was no way to fight.

Seeing that four of his brothers were traitors, the last dragon knight decisively confessed his mistake and defected on the spot.

Then, there was no then.

It was said that the prince was very miserable, his head was chopped off and used as a ball to kick.

At this point, all the turmoil began to subside.

The second and third princes, who were dumbfounded, had no room for resistance under the power of the eldest prince.

However, the eldest prince did not blame his two younger brothers, after all, half of the reason they competed with him for the throne was because he secretly guided them.

The situation in the north stabilized extremely quickly, so quickly that everyone felt unbelievable.

Allen once again felt the means of an old schemer.

He really used the power of the whole country to perform an epic drama for the prince.

After the situation in the north stabilized, the eldest prince quickly ascended to the throne, and then summoned all the dragon knights to the northern capital.

This was the reward for meritorious service after the chaos.

Although Allen was in the south, and could be said to have not truly participated in this event, it had to be said that Allen was really one of the people who contributed the most to the entire event.

After all, Allen could be said to have single-handedly contained the entire prince's power from thousands of miles away, and even contained a dragon knight.