Robin picked up the scroll from Bailey, opened it carefully, and began to read...
This was the decree declaring the Tenth Duchy, the Duchy of Burton!
The decree is also attached to a small map of the recognized lands of the family...
The heart of the Duchy lies at the very center, the capital of the new biggest duchy in the Black Sun Kingdom and Arguably the biggest in the whole Eight Kingdoms... the City of Jura.
It extends northward, taking the lands of the Rufus family and third of the lands that belonged to the Tawi family, and going all the way up to the lands of the Camden family that formerly belonged to the Lying Water Kingdom.
Extending east, enclosing on its way a number of lands that belonged formerly to the Duchy of Alton, and swallowing most of the lands of the former Duchy of Harris
It extends southeast, taking another big chunk of the lands that formerly belonged to the Duchy of Alton, penetrating the lands of the Duchy of Evren taking a third of the whole Duchy, and devouring half of the former half of the Duchy of Tinley of the Dolivar Kingdom.
Seeing the sight resembling a three-clawed beast palm shown in front of him on the map, even Robin gave a long sigh...
Even on the map, The Duchy of the Burton family is visibly much larger than the rest of the kingdom's duchies, and even the duchies of neighboring kingdoms!
"Hahaha, awesome, isn't it?" Billy laughed hysterically, even the rest of the elders in the council began to show involuntary smiles... that scroll was simply an impossible dream a decade ago.
Then Billy continued, "We are indeed a Duke's family already, we are just waiting for the City to be rebuilt to fit our new standing, when it is done, Jura will be only inferior to the Royal Capital in size, but not far away in term of luxury and defenses...
Only then we will invite all the nobles of the kingdom for the announcement celebration, The Burton family must not appear inferior to anyone from now on!"
Robin let out a small sigh, nodded and returned to Billy the scroll, and asked, "What will happen to the current population during Reconstruction? And most importantly... what about the auctions? will they come back this month as planned?"
"We have put a plan for the reconstructing, we divided the city into sections and will proceed the operations at a section after a section of the city, when we reach a section then its residents are transferred to another section, and so on... or they are settled in temporary tents outside the city... No one objected to this knowing that they will receive better and bigger houses and shops than before." Billy explained putting the scroll in his shirt
Then he continued, "As for the auctions… I know that you wanted to direct the effort of only two months of the Rune Masters towards supporting armies in The Lying Water Kingdom, and according to that, we would have to open auctions after about two weeks… But I have a request…
I hope you will agree for auctions to be postponed for another two months, when we are done with the east side of the city then we can continue, so as not to disturb the nobles with the construction noise, and during this time we can construct selling shops for voice talisman the other runes with fixed prices in general, what do you think?"
"Two and a half months..." Robin muttered and rubbed his chin for a few seconds, then nodded, "It's okay.. I'll give orders to the Rune Masters to produce Fire explosion Talismans at half their capacity for the next two months and with the second half they would produce the fixed-price talismans for small scale sales, the profits of those sales can be put to work in the city construction as well.."
"Haha, excellent!" Billy clapped his hands in joy because Robin agreed, just now a few elders were saying they needed money from the big auctions and it must re-open as soon as possible, but as long as Robin agreed, it was settled.
While laughing, he seemed to understand something, "Right, what brought you here in the first place? Are you just asking about the reconstruction work?"
"Actually no, I wanted you to do something, but it appears that I will have to delay it for two months." Robin muttered, then continued, " But some adds now wouldn't hurt, listen... I want you to announce around the whole kingdom, to all nobles and non-nobles, all families big and small, and even gangs in the far mountains... Tell everyone under the skies of this kingdom that we will be selling a minor law technique on the re-opening day of the Great Auction Hall of Jura!" "
"WHAT?!" Even the elders who had been calm and silent up until this point couldn't be silent any longer, "What about the royal family? What's going to happen to us if he did something like this?"
"It's true that our family has become the largest of a Duke's family, but we absolutely are still not in a position to decide something like that!"
"Robin, you have to reconsider!!"
Robin raised his hand and gestured to everyone to calm down, "I have already taken Sage Albert's permission. We can sell to anyone we want... Although he'll be a little surprised at how many I'm going to sell to, but it's his fault he didn't specify a certain number haha."
"Sage Albert... agreed?" Billy muttered, still unbelievable
" we will..."
"...Be RICH!!"
"HAHAHA, our ancestors are sending us their blessings, we won't complain about our lack of gold ever again!"
"Gold is no longer a problem, we can make the city two or three times bigger than this blueprint, we can add more defenses, we can---!!"
Robin left them for about two minutes without interfering, some partying and some still in denial, and finally said, "Ahem... the profits of that technique, put 25 million gold coins on the side for me, if we managed to get any more then you may do whatever you want with it, alright?"
"Wh-... What?! 25 million gold coins.. why would you need all this gold?!" One of the elders hit the table, even the rest of the elders fell silent and looked at Robin.. their dreams were shattered
25 million... An auction on a weak first-grade minor heavenly law technique may eventually reach one million or one million and a half, if the auction is repeated every month, the 25 million will be saved over at least two years, and during that period they will not touch this much money?
Robin looked at the angry elder who spoke and replied in a short sentence, "This does not concern you."
the atmosphere froze a little, after a few seconds that elder gathered his courage and was about to reply to Robin, When another voice blocked him
"Ahahaha, easy now guys." Billy laughed and gestured for the elders to sit down, "We didn't even consider the profits from that technique in the first place, there is no reason to overreact about it.
Don't worry, Robin, we will forget this gold exists and will collect all the profits for you, not speaking of 25 million, even if you wanted these profits forever we won't say a word. and I'll start doing the advertising right away!"
"Good, it's always nice to talk to you, my friend." Robin replied then turned and hopped to leave, but he stopped before reaching the door and looked at Billy, "I almost forgot, I want metal tablets, beast hides, and the rest of the resources used in the Thought conveying Technique, collect as much as you can and send them to my palace… I also want you to build me a huge metal warehouse near my palace, it should be impenetrable by any eye or sense, I'll count on you!"
Billy nodded again and smiled and followed Robin's back as he made his way to the door.
After confirming that Robin had left the building, one of the new saints stood up and shouted, "Billy!! At least you should have pressed him more or tried to bargain with him about that gold!
this much gold should be under the disposal of the whole counsel, not to leave it aside for one man! ... Billy, If you can't manage the family resources, then leave your responsibilities to those who are capable!"