Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire.

Chapter 85 Ancient Golden Dragon Castle, a World-Class Wonder

However, the Golden Dragon immediately realized that this foster mother and her partner had raided the ancient black dragon's lair and conquered a vast area of ​​the Underdark. Simply asking these clans and tribes to pay tribute would be enough to cover the cost of building the Mage Tower.

The Augustus family today is no longer the border nobles it was when he was just born. They rule over the vast land as far as the eye can see. Even the area illuminated by the sun when he just evolved is not as vast as the territory ruled by Augustus.

"The Augustus family will provide one-tenth of the territory's annual tax revenue as funds for me to build the Mage Tower, so this Mage Tower must be able to protect the city of Elishim."

"So, my Dragon's Nest is the best location to build a wizard tower?"

"Yes."

Selina nodded and added,
"If you don't want, I can choose another location."

"I didn't say I didn't want to."

Noah wagged his tail. The nest he had lived in when he was a chick was not very good now. After all, his father and mother dragons had only built it as a temporary place to stay. It was not very sophisticated, at least for a golden dragon.
"I just want to ask, if the Mage Tower is built here, where will I live in the future?"

"During the construction, you will temporarily live in the mansion. When it is completed, you will live in the tower. I will grant you the first-level authority second only to mine. You will be the first heir of this tower."

At this point, Serena narrowed her eyes and said to Jin Long half-jokingly,
“If one day in the future I go missing while exploring another world, or if I fight with some powerful creature and die, you can inherit all my authority and become the tower master.

How is it? Pretty good, isn’t it! Little Noah! "

"This……"

Noah was stunned and speechless for a moment.

"Hahaha, your expression right now is so funny. Are you surprised? Don't you think about it? If I don't give it to you, who else can I give it to? To Tidel? Let a reckless man with a head full of muscles inherit a noble wizard's tower? I will become a joke."

"You will definitely be promoted to Legend in the future. It's still unclear who will live longer."

Jin Long turned his head and curled his lips.

"But I'm not a person who stays content. If I become a legendary wizard and nothing else bothers me, I will definitely start exploring other worlds and travel to other material realms!"

The girl-like wizard turned her head, smiling brightly, and revealed some of her plans and arrangements for the future to the Golden Dragon.

"Then who knows when you can be promoted to a legendary wizard?"

The golden dragon suppressed the surging emotions in his heart and stretched out his dragon claws towards his adoptive mother.

"Where are the design drawings of the Mage Tower? I want to see them."

"Here, this is the wizard tower I designed. Take a look. Is there anything that needs to be modified?"

Selina demonstrated her meticulous control over the elements as an ultimate mage. Elements invisible to the naked eye were transformed into clearly visible colored lines under her control.

The shape of the mountain where the dragon's nest is located was outlined, and then most of the mountain was flattened. On top of the mountain, a magnificent wizard tower was built. Throughout the whole process, every detail is clearly visible.

"The budget for building the Mage Tower is only one-tenth of the territory's tax revenue? Is there a time limit?"

Noah watched attentively, and then asked a question.

"No. As for the construction funds, Cassius has discussed it with me. He will allocate half of the annual tribute from the Underdark to my name."

Serena said it lightly, but Noah couldn't help but ask again.

"Is there no age limit?" "No."

“I think the design is too short!”

Noah immediately proposed a revision, but felt that it was not enough, so he added,
"It's not big enough, and its momentum is not majestic enough. It doesn't match your status as a future legendary wizard."

"So, what's your opinion?"

“Redesign!”

Theoretically, this could be called unlimited funds, and Noah certainly would not be polite. Although the territory's finances only allocated one-tenth of it, the Dark Tribe could get half of it every year as tribute.

If it's still not enough, at worst we can make the dark clans suffer a little more and add some tribute. I don't think those guys will care about this little increase.

"Tell me what you think."

"Tower-shaped buildings are the economic solution chosen by poor mages. Since the Augustus family is not short of money, we can build a mage city and erect as many towers as we want on the castle..."

Noah enthusiastically described the plan that came to his mind.

However, as she listened to Jin Long's explanation, the Duchess, who had originally been full of interest, gradually became expressionless, and finally interrupted Jin Long's explanation.
"How long do you plan to take to build this wizard city? One hundred years or two hundred years?"

"It shouldn't take that long..."

Noticing the look on his adoptive mother's face, Noah, who had been talking nonstop, suddenly stopped and his voice unconsciously became a little softer.

A golden dragon that has lived for thousands of years and has reached the pinnacle of wisdom and power in the material world will often choose to build a magnificent castle or a large library if it wants to demonstrate its authority and presence.

In order to achieve a shocking effect and make all creatures, dragons, and even other ancient dragons marvel, awed, or admire, the scale of this kind of building will basically be designed to be a world-class wonder.

Therefore, Noah was able to find many design drawings of world wonders in his own heritage. Those were fantasy buildings that previous golden dragons could not build, and they were his hopes for future generations.

"Be more restrained. We can build a magic city, but we must focus on reality."

Serena had to make specific requests.
"As for the Dragon King City you envisioned, you should wait until you become an ancestor dragon and raise funds to build it yourself. Now you can't build it even if you squeeze the Augustus family dry."

"All right!"

Noah had no choice but to give up and started to design a more practical wizard city with his adoptive mother.

At this time, Jin Long was fully focused on the new design. He naturally integrated into the identity of the first heir and designed based on this.

Of course, putting aside this identity, this will also be his future residence, and he will have to bring his servants and relatives with him, so Noah took the size of the goblins and giants into consideration.

The Golden Dragon specially built an arcane garden for the goblins, and designed many flower beds and gardens on each floor of the Mage City according to local conditions.

"By the way, Auntie, is the working environment of fairies very bad now? Why do they all seem to be working so hard?"

Noah asked casually.

“It’s a bit hard, but these little guys are enjoying it.”

(End of this chapter)