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Ron wasted no time.

After collecting the spirit insects, he led his men straight to the Marquis's treasury.

The wealth inside also exceeded Ron's expectations; the golden dragon alone had accumulated to a staggering one million.

The golden dragon wasn't what attracted Ron's attention the most; what truly captivated him was the collection.

Any one of these items could fetch tens of thousands at auction.

Ron picked up a box at random; inside was a spatial ring.

I glanced at it and saw that the space inside was more than ten cubic meters.

Wow! It's filled with all sorts of magical metals.

There were five or six more rings like that, and Ron scanned them one by one.

Some contained secret manuals, alchemy tools, energy stones, and other things.

This appears to be assets left behind by the Marquis of Mammon, which he would simply take and run away with when the family was in trouble.

Unfortunately, it wasn't used.

The vault also contained other treasures, all of which appeared to have been collected by the Marquis of Mammon over the years.

Magic Crystal Cannon, Alchemy Armor, Crystal Ball, and so on.

Good heavens! This Marquis Mammon is much richer than the Liulichuan family.

Ron had asked Liulichuan about her family's situation; they only had two Grand Knights, and their resources couldn't compare to Marquis Mammon's.

After years of war, they were depleted and fled in haste, not daring to take most of their wealth with them.

That was enough to satisfy Ron's hunger back then, and now he's facing the vast treasure trove of the Marquis Mammon's family.

Ron accepted all comers; his little garden was big enough to hold them all.

The energy stones and crystal cores we harvested this time came in handy.

Ron's little garden has expanded over the past two years to 500 meters in length and width, and over 100 meters in height.

Training soldiers is a piece of cake for them.

Ron has already built several villas there, which are used to store a large amount of supplies.

When Margaret was asleep, Ron had prepared for the worst-case scenario and taken several women and his core subordinates to take refuge inside, but it was never used.

Once Ron finishes this big job, the little garden might be able to expand to a kilometer in length and width.

After leaving the treasury, his men were busy ransacking the house when a soldier came to report.

All four of them successfully defended the city gates and prevented anyone from leaving with their wealth. However, they are now under constant attack from the defending troops and have come to ask for help.

Although Oak City is almost never attacked, it is still garrisoned by two legions of five or six thousand men.

It's normal for Aiba to ask them for help.

Ron didn't take anyone with him; he rode Margaret alone to provide support.

Margaret spread her wings, gave a powerful flap, and carried Ron straight into the sky. In just a few breaths, they were above the nearest city gate.

The sounds of fighting could be faintly heard from below.

A silver-white figure emerged from the clouds, like a shooting star crashing to the ground. The defenders at the east gate were fiercely attacking Selena and her companions, raining down arrows, forming layer upon layer of encirclement.

Selena stood at the city gate, her longsword whistling as she swung it, with more than a dozen corpses already lying around her.

"What is that—" A soldier looked up and saw the giant dragon swooping down, dropping his spear to the ground.

Margaret suddenly spread her wings fifty meters from the city wall, and the huge shockwave knocked over several attacking soldiers.

The dragon's might pressed down from the sky.

Gradually, the entire battlefield fell silent, but then came a terrifying dragon's roar.

Then came an extremely long burst of frost dragon breath.

The soldiers who touched it were instantly frozen into ice sculptures, and those who touched it by others shattered into pieces.

This completely shattered the enemy's will. No one had the courage to attack anymore, and they couldn't even maintain their formation. They all ran away crying for their lives.

In less than a minute, Ron completed the rescue and won the game.

Ron rode on Margaret's back, looking down at the routed defenders on the city walls.

Below, Selena stared blankly at Ron on Margaret's body, never imagining that her lord would become a dragon knight.

Ron ignored what Selena was thinking and gave the order directly:

"Guard the city gates well, and don't let a single person leave through here."

Selena nodded quickly, but when she looked up, Ron had already ridden Margaret to another city gate.

The crisis at the other three city gates was also quickly resolved; no one tried to leave through the gates, and everyone hid in their rooms, trembling with fear.

Next comes the harvest.

The greatest wealth in the entire Oak City belongs to the Marquis Mammon family, followed by the various merchant guilds within the city.

These chambers of commerce have incredibly complex backgrounds, all of them composed of well-known nobles within the duchy.

The frontier is like a big cake. The frontier lord is responsible for making the cake, while Marquis Mammon, as the local strongman, is responsible for watching over it and can also eat a piece of the fat.

However, most of the profits were earned domestically.

These merchant guilds were a means for ducal nobles to seize gold. By transporting large numbers of serfs and goods from their duchies, they could resell them for several times the profit.

Once the supported pioneering lords have established themselves, the support can be sustained, not to mention that there will be a new batch of pioneering lords every year.

So Ron's attitude towards these merchant guilds was, since they'd already fallen out with the duchy, why not rob them now and wait for them to come and attack him later?

Ron then ordered the Knights to begin their familiar raiding procedures.

For the next two days, Ron turned Oak City upside down.

The Marquis's wealth had already left him speechless, but the warehouses of the merchant guilds in the city were the real behemoth.

The metal market, the Silver Moon Chamber of Commerce, the Brass Chamber of Commerce, and more than a dozen caravans—one by one—were "talked to," and each of them paid a "deposit" of varying amounts depending on their size.

Some were quick, some were slow. After Margaret flew over and circled above their heads once, even the slow ones became quick.

In just two days, Jinlong received over 100,000 yuan in cash alone, and the value of various goods increased tenfold.

Under the dragon's intimidation, none of the merchants dared to make a move.

Because Ron had fewer people, he didn't treat these merchant guilds with the same ruthless methods he used against Marquis Mammon.

If Ron cooperates actively, he can still avoid killing people.

But if any merchant guild presents wealth that looks suspicious, then don't blame Ron for bringing Margaret along for a stroll.

After purging several chambers of commerce, they all came to terms with reality.

There's no way to escape, and you can't beat them in a fight, so you might as well surrender.

Ron spent two whole days in Oak City searching the entire city.

There must have been quite a few omissions, but Ron had to leave; news of his capture of Oakwood had already spread.

The Duchy learned of the news through the crystal ball the moment Ron revealed the dragon.

After learning of Ron's actions, the anger of all the nobles was further aroused, and they are now discussing how to deal with Ron.

But Ron's reason for leaving Oakwood so quickly was not because of the Duchy.

Rather, he feared that news of the dragon would spread rapidly in the pioneering lands.

In that case, those noble lords probably wouldn't have much of a will to resist and would just run away with the elf insects.

This is what Ron cannot accept.

That's why he abandoned the hidden wealth of Oak City and returned to his territory.

Ron flew away on Margaret.

He wanted to take advantage of Margaret's high mobility and make a fortune before the news spread widely across the frontier.