Chapter 366 - 2 Years

Due to the recent mass upgrade in the Budget, King Zar himself found it the best idea to invest in the Kingdom's protection. There are Catapults, Ballistas and Patrol Guards. Archers can be a great form of defense, King Zar saw their affect in battle so he chose to take action upon it.

He put out a recruitment order, and an officially signed doc.u.ment as well which is spread around in the town centre, due to the recent raises in Salary, many people found him trustable enough to apply.

Because after all, this is a great opportunity for some men and women to bring another salary in the family, a great portion are already bringing in two and a smaller portion will be bringing in 3 salaries in one house now!

Another reason why many felt it easier to apply for this job, is due to the fact that Archery commonly doesn't really lead to death. Most of the times, the Archers defend the Domain from the comfort of the walls. So knowing that death in battle is almost avoidable, a lot applied.

How many Archers did King Zar require you might ask? Well, exactly 100! It won't make a massive impact on the profit, meaning it won't take half of it alone. The Salary for each of these new inexperienced Archers is 110 Gold Coins, it isn't exactly a small salary especially after considering that most families have already a salary flowing in before this job.

All together, these new 100 recruits take 11,000 Gold Coins from the Budget. Of course when a salary raise is in order, the expenses can become bigger but for now they will enjoy the month by month Budget increasing thanks to the 70,000 Gold Coin remaining as a monthly profit.

Well, that at least is the profit now right after he hired these 100 new Archers. But something that might come in as a deal breaker for a lot of residents, is the taxes raising by double.

Seer made a deep research from house to house, most specifically there are 1,080 people hired but there are 400 Houses. See where this is going? Each and every house has at least 2 Salaries going in the house, mostly over 200 Gold Coins and some breaking over 500.

So since obviously no one will starve here due to a tax increase, it is safe to raise it. Before, since the monthly tax for each house was 40 Gold Coins, the Castle earned a nice 16,000 Gold Coins a month. But do you know what is better than 16,000? Well the handsome fact that 32,000 Gold Coins will come from taxes starting from December.

So putting that fact in to consideration, the monthly profit raised to 70,000! In other aspects, Seer hiring 400 people a few months ago has led up to this tremendous profit.

I realise that the numbers should be higher, but we forgot to include the 10% tax of which Gaster Kingdom takes when allowing Pameres Kingdom to use the port for external merchandise export. My bad, well the good news is that Gaster Kingdom earns 50,000 Gold Coins a month as a profit.

Bottom line, this tax increase is for the good of the people. Because after a few more months of piling up Budget, or at least until a new source of income is established, the employees will inevitably face a Salary Raise.

This is the fifth living Platoon established in Pameres Kingdom, there are a handful of Survivors from the tens of survivors from the battle of Pameres Kingdom, so establishing a Commander for this new Platoon won't neccesarily be a hard task.

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Now getting to a case I wanted to specify to the every last detail for a long time now, but couldn't because Pameres Kingdom didn't have enough Stonemasons, I of course am talking about the Construction of the Second wall around this fine Domain.

Now to specify, the first wall is almost completely circular and stretches 140 meters across, holding 300 Houses in between it. The 100 new Houses are built outside of the first walls but very close to it.

Now the second wall will be Circular as well, but this one will be a lot wider, triple the size come to think of it. Well not in all aspects, just in terms of how wide it will stretch. The Gr.a.p.e farm will be protected by this second wall as well, best part is that there still will be a lot of place left for the King to build whatever he pleases.

Now when measured from one side to the other across, the second wall will be around 400 meters long and wide! That is a lot indeed, and it would perhaps take a decade to complete with the previous amount of Stonemasons, especially since they barely even started the Construction of the wall due to the fact that most of them were and still are working on the Housing.

This second wall, when measured all around instead of across, it will be 1,100 meters long! That's rather large. But exactly how long will this Construction take? 2 years!

Even after considering that there are 190 Stonemasons hired in this Kingdom, 150 of which are working on the Second Wall and the other 40 on the Housing. The Wall is just too large and thick!

It has a base which is 5 meters thick, while at the top it is 2 meters thick. This wall is appropriate to hold hundreds to thousands of men at once, and can easily withstand Ballista shots, while Catapult shots can breach the wall but it isn't anything unfixable.

The wall will be 6 meters tall, this is enough to hold off any Close Combat enemy and it gives a vantage point to shoot down those enemies.

There will also be a few towers, of which only Archers of higher Level will be able to use in order to gain increased protection from the tower itself and shoot as many enemies as possible mostly from a medium to long distance. But of course the Towers just increased the time it requires for this wall to be built.

These are all the Reasons why the wall will take so long to build, but we also need to take in mind that there are many inexperienced Stonemasons here as well which could either increase or decrease the estimated time of its construction.

It can increase the time if the Stonemasons keep doing mistakes, or have to redo specific parts which will only take more time. And it can decrease the estimated time if the Stonemasons avoid mistakes and actually become a bit faster in a span of a year.

Whatever the case might be, the Kingdom will be considered lucky and at the same time a lot safer if they manage to finish building this wall on December 203. Let us see how the situation will be until then, perhaps the productivity will rise with the help of Tedradia.

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"Happy Birthday Crisa!" Everyone shouted once she walked in the throne room. The older maids have kept her busy by sending her to the Second floor in aims of cleaning. Only if she knew that they were preparing a party for her.

When she heard this surprise, she dropped her broom and tripped over it, losing her balance and clumsily running across the room. King Zar is the closest to her physically, so he proved quite useful to catch her from falling. However this time he did not grab her belly, but her shoulders instead.

"What is all of this?" She asked, confused equally to being happy.

"I asked Seer to keep me in track with the Birthdays in this Castle, according to Doc.u.ment your Birthday is today, on November 10." His intend is pure, but he slightly made Crisa confused with all these numbers, she stared at the King speechless.

"You are losing her Sire." Seer whispered from the background, obviously meaning it as a joke.

"Nevermind that, happy Birthday Crisa." The King congratulated personally this time and dragged her in to a nice warm hug in front of everyone.

"Thank you." She spoke after seperating from the hug, just slightly blushing but because of all this care and attention from everyone. "Thank you all."

"We have prepared the best food for you, I hope you will enjoy them." King Zar specified, admiring the glow on Crisa's eyes but not having the guts to make eye Contact non stop.

"We?" She asked in curiosity, with her mouth still open.

"King Zar wore a cooking dress!" Miguel spoke from the background, unwilling to tease but just wanting to answer. King Zar invited Crisa's family here as well which is very fulfilling.

"So you helped to cook?" She asked, giggling her way through and at the end laughing at Miguel's description.

"Well more like he was my little assistant." Derada answered, she is the oldest maid here and no doubt bold enough to say whatever she wants. It feels even funnier to call him little, considering that she is short and he is tall.

"Alright now let's spare her from the details." He requested, feeling a bit embarrassed and adding with a mildly loud tone. "Drumers, Tingalins!"

Afterwards music broke out in a harmonious manner, not too loud and not to quiet either. Playing a tune that would make anyone move their feet.

We are all aware what Drums are, as for Tingalins they are like a Guitar. 3 feet long, two strings and a midly rough sound. When effort is put in to it however, it provides a ear blessing melody. It has been used in Ignis for generations now, about 300 years old.

"This time, may I have this dance Crisa?" He asked, kneeling down awaiting her hand.

Crisa took a glance at her family, noticed how her Father is smiling at her with his entire face, Tedradia pulling her husband in to a dance by force and Miguel has started dancing with the 58 year old Derada.

"I'd love too." She answered, with a tear of joy dropping from her eye and rolling down her cheek before it fell to the ground.

Meanwhile, Seer was trying to convince Maleesa not to dance. Stating, "Honey you are pregnant, you shouldn't get tired."

Insisting enough, after looking at her own grown belly. She said, "Oh just one short dance. They are playing my favourite song, Dance of the Deer."