"So, what exactly are you planning to do? Pay up?" Mo Fei finally asked.
"Of course not! We're absolutely not paying!" Invincible Sand Sculpture said furiously, "Do you know how much Gedwyn asked for? One million Gold Coins, that's ten million vouchers. What a joke! Even if the five of us share the cost, it's two hundred thousand Gold Coins each. I've already poured tens of millions into establishing the Southshore Principality and haven't seen any return on investment yet. And now they expect me to keep spending? No matter how wealthy I am, I can't keep this up."
Being a king might be prestigious, but it's clearly also a costly affair.
Mo Fei thought to himself, it's only ten million. I've already invested twenty million in training the Knight Order, building the fleet, and constructing towns... And that's after taking advantage of various favorable conditions, which saved quite a lot of money. If it were anyone else, thirty or forty million would probably not be enough.