With the new cash flow from the Midas stones, I was able to let everyone have much more spending money. The kingdom went through many upgrades we added more buildings, increased the size of everything.
More teachers were summoned and new books added to Hogwarts. A good education for citizens is a great start.
At some point, I want to get a mech class going and see how that works out. That's future thinking though as I have no idea what to buy. However, I do have some small plans for making money later on with automated items I can purchase in the shop.
Money spent on snacks went up 10000% every other day Ophis, Gir, and L would have something akin to a giant tea party without the tea I'm pretty sure I saw an actual house-sized gingerbread house with giant gumdrop buttons before the loli dragon ate it.
It is by far the most odd meeting of people I have ever witnessed. A dragon that looks like a little girl with almost infinite power. a shut-in super genius detective and a robot disguised as a green dog with mental problems. This group would later expand to add a magical flying carpet and a blue genie whose new name was Robin.
I put a stop to the food costs for those bottomless pits by buying a noble phantasm that has the ability to make feasts. (look it up as it exists.) The rest of the money was spent on materials and gear for Hephaestus and her smithing or the peerage members for better gear or saved up to revive the dragons I had stored away Ddraig and Albion.
So now that everyone was all set up and had practiced it was time for the rating games. The most looked forward to fighting was between rias and sona. As the young heirs to their respective families and pretty much the same age it was going to be a good challenge for them both had I not had rias personally trained and equipped with decent gear.
I showed up around the stadium with a giant foam finger that had rias #1 on it. I got a jealous look from serafall as she hadn't thought of that but being the good future husband I am I had brought a sona #1 finger for her as well I can't have anyone left out.
The fights weren't very interesting as most of the devil's kids all just sat around and didn't practice much. As they thought since they were pureblood devils they could just breeze through the competition.
The first rounds are basically just rias and sona shitting on everyone else with skills and power combined with proper training. Kiba and Gaspard had their levels of combat skills raised to the limit of what I could do. I few lessons with teacher and some traumatic experiences in the dungeon can surely change a person.
The fallen angel's Raynare and Mittelt got to sit in on some of Katerea's re-education with Bella, Tayuya, and Anko. They worked extra hard to not be subjected to that treatment. It was some insane mind washing magic and ninja torture brainwashing.
The battle between sona and rias ended fast when rias decided to just use a condensed ball of destruction and blow the whole arena to hell. Simple and effective. She was taught not to play around and finish battles swiftly. I mean if you have massive amounts of destruction magic at your disposal might as well just blow everything up.
I had won a nice chunk of money gambling with the other suckers who are head of devil houses. Devils are still greedy so they jumped on the chance to gamble.
Just cause I have a little money doesn't mean we stop making more. I'll probably have serafall sell off some of the manga and the animated shows that aren't available in this world.
I clap along with the rest of the crowd as rias is given a nice prize and some of her peerage are considered for promotion if they do well in the next games.
After all the ass-kissing was done everyone got to participate in a nice feast for the competitors I had arranged. sadly I can't use my new phantasm because of system limits but I can still afford good food.
Sona was very unhappy that she didn't even have a chance to compete and show off her tactical skills. Sadly sometimes the best plans can be destroyed with overwhelming force. It doesn't matter how many soldiers you swarm the enemy with if they all get hit with a tactical nuke.
I'll cheer her up with some of my notes on new uses for devil magic most of which are still being tested and studied by some of my other bodies and Merlin in Hogwarts. I'll give her the safe ones.
Rias's peerage was told to keep the kingdom and their teachers a secret, for now, do to some of the restrictions of the system I had in place. The only reason her peerage was allowed in and out was that rias were classified as my mate and bonded to me. Since she is the king of the peerage I technically own them as well.
As for Ophis, I had to wheel and deal with the system but since she had a nice chunk of loyalty towards me it let that slide.