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Chapter 748 - 748 35 The Alliance on the Verge of Collapse_2

748: Chapter 35, The Alliance on the Verge of Collapse_2 748: Chapter 35, The Alliance on the Verge of Collapse_2 “Respected Mister Maxim, you’ve got one thing wrong.

The nutrition fee is given primarily for replenishing your nutrition, only any excess will be directly handed out to you in gold coins.

In recent days, your indulgences have become significant expenses, amounting to a total of 85,650 Gold Coins.

You have been feasting every day after all.

The list of expenditures is right here.

You can double-check it for any mistakes or discrepancies.”

In mid-speech, Hudson threw a stack of account books over.

Clear records of Maxim’s daily dietary behavior were recorded within.

After briefly scanning through it without much patience, the Red Dragon did some mental calculations.

Once he found no issues, he spoke with a resigned face.

“I normally eat all these things without spending a dime.

Following you, a stingy knight like you, can only be my misfortune!

However, you must also shoulder half of these expenses.

Round down the fraction, let’s call it forty thousand gold coins.

Eight hundred and ten thousand minus forty thousand still leaves seven hundred and seventy thousand gold coins.

Hudson, pay up!”

This was a classic case of dragon accounting which was too absurd for Hudson to retort.

Only someone shameless would make such outrageous claims.

“Mister Maxim, don’t rush it.

Gold coins don’t have legs.

What should be yours will forever be yours and it won’t run away.

Let’s continue reviewing the accounts.

Not all Magical Beast Eggs hatch successfully.

Under our previous agreement, you only get nutrition fees for successfully hatched Magical Beast Juveniles.

There are still eggs that are in the process of hatching.

Therefore, the nutrition fees you can collect are only for successfully hatched ones.

Combining the directly born Magical Beast juveniles, the grand total is 3826.

The total cost equals 573,900 Gold Coins.

The amount of 85,650 Gold Coins mentioned earlier is just your daily food expenses.

Additionally:

Over the past year, you’ve repaired your dragon nest seven times, with total maintenance costs amounting to 13,000 Gold Coins;

The costs of fighting, territory infrastructure repair, and spiritual compensations to innocent victims come to 37,000 Gold Coins;

The medical expenses for the injured and the appeasement fees for deceased personnel sum up to 23,000 Gold Coins;

Due to your brutality, many mother beasts have died, including two mother monsters, that led to a compensation total of 34,000 Gold Coins.

…

After deducting these expenses, your net income is exactly 280,000 Gold Coins.

Of course, this is only the income realized so far.

In the future, as the number of Magical Beast juveniles increases, you will still have large amounts of money coming in.

Mister Maxim, if you have no objections to these accounts, please sign here!”

Upon watching Hudson pull out the list, Maxim immediately started doubting the dragon economy, were his expenses really that high?

But every entry had detailed sourcing.

At first glance, he couldn’t find anything wrong.

“Wait!

Hudson, the cost of living in your Mountain Domain is too high!

From the records here, a cow costs thirteen Gold Coins, a sheep costs three, a single brick costs five…

this is plainly robbery!

…

Thinking he found a mistake, Maxim began a torrent of objections.

“Sorry, these are all normal prices.

Respected Mister Maxim, don’t forget that the cows and sheep you eat are all processed.

Apart from the cost of the meat itself, you also have to pay the processing fees and the cost of spices.

Therefore, it is normal for the price to be higher than the market.

The bricks used to fix the dragon nest are carefully selected from the top soil, crafted by the best artisans using advanced techniques.

If you were to compare these bricks to any regular ones, upon comparison, you would see a clear difference.

The saying ‘you get what you pay for’ holds true.

As good-quality goods naturally demand a higher price.

…

Mister Maxim, if you feel like your current living standard costs are too high, I can surely help you reduce it a little bit.

For example: in the future, your beef and lamb will come raw, without any processing; instead of using the beautiful custom bricks for repairing the dragon’s nest, we can directly use mud….”

Apart from that, as long as you don’t cause trouble or fights, your expenses will definitely decrease significantly.”

Hudson enthusiastically bluffed.

Unable to use his usual physical threats and lacking the experience of a dragon’s life, Maxim was naturally no match for Hudson.

As Maxim was about to pay with a mark of his dragon claw, he received another thick bill.

Seeing the big words “Demon Crystal Consumption Fee”, the Red Dragon was completely stumped.

The various costs of daily expenses, no matter how high the prices were, always had a trace, a source.

The costs of daily training were a mess.

Maxim only knew that after following Hudson, his training speed increased dramatically, but how many demon crystals he consumed was unfortunately a mess.

“Hudson, from now on, I must see you absorb the demon crystals with my own eyes, or I won’t accept the bills!”

As soon as he finished speaking, Belsden, who had been enjoying the drama, also jumped out and clamored, “The same goes for mine!”

Both the dragon and the bear were unanimous in their position.

Not only was Hudson not annoyed, but he said with a genial expression, “No problem!

Don’t you trust me?

Does Maxim not know?

Belsden, you should.

You can see how many demon crystals we’ve consumed in the past few years!”

Indeed, he did.

Hudson had turned all the demon crystals and demon cores they’d received from the clergy and seized from the battlefield into energy.

Some were used for daily needs, others were stored in the Mysterious Compass.

Hudson didn’t have to worry about how to show off his energy storage.

Now, he didn’t have to worry anymore.

He had a bunch of Magical Beasts to raise, and he could just use it as an additive for potion refining.

He didn’t even have to personally refine it, he just needed to infuse it into a pill that could carry energy.

In fact, these operations were all just for show.

If he wasn’t worried about arousing suspicion, he wouldn’t even bother with the pills and would just infuse the energy directly into the juveniles.

The only regret was that the potion he concocted only increased the power of the Magical Beasts and couldn’t grow their size.

But these were minor issues.

A side effect of the potion was a perfect explanation for everything.

After all, all the beast maturation potions that everyone created had more or less side effects.

Even if they got the pills, everyone would only think that Hudson used a special method to extract energy from the demon crystals.

Being able to feed his Beast Legion with the dragon’s and bear’s money, Hudson felt no pressure at all.

Looking at the more than three hundred gold coins he finally received, tears of frustration welled up in Maxim’s eyes and couldn’t help falling.

Hudson, quick on the uptake, immediately took out a porcelain bottle to catch them.

Dragon Tears were a rarity, these few drops could sell for several hundred gold coins on the outside.

Maxim was speechless.

After a year of strenuous work, the wages he finally received were worth less than his falling tears.

…

After the small interruption, Hudson had to consider a realistic problem.

The end of Maxim’s mating period also meant that the work of the Magical Beast Breeding Base was nearly complete.

Once all the pregnant mother beasts have given birth, this international collaboration will have ended.

Perhaps the base will not be closed, but key personnel will definitely be withdrawn.

The representatives left behind will only be responsible for observing and waiting for the next time the Giant Dragon goes into heat.

If by then, everyone’s relationship is tolerable, maybe they can work together again.

But if relations break down, there will be no future.

There is no denying the power of the Giant Dragon.

Given the current data, once the mother beasts have given birth, the number of Sub-dragon Beast juveniles born this time will be around eleven thousand.

While the number sounds huge, once dispersed across the entire Northern Continent, it seems insignificant.

Even the most powerful Alpha Kingdom would only get about three thousand six hundred Sub-dragon Beast juveniles.

Distributed evenly among the provinces, that would only be about a hundred.

Major Nobles alone were not enough to cover it, let alone the equally capable Intermediate Aristocracy, as well as the needs of the Standing Army, everyone else would get even less.

If they wanted to form a massive Magical Beast Legion, they could only quickly grow these juveniles and breed them again.

Undoubtedly, the Mountain Domain is ahead in this respect.

According to previous agreements, the Mountain Domain would be allocated more than four hundred juveniles.

Thankfully Hudson sold some ahead of time.

Otherwise, given the current situation, the Mountain Domain, with so many juveniles, would soon become the target of public criticism.