That night, Cain was restless. He have told Piper that he wants the mana chamber in the castle and the housing district to be built first. Piper have also told him that it is possible to finish construction faster if he has more labor and Cain promised him to bring the slave he bought to work in the territory under three conditions.
1. Only Adult male can work but they must be paid with food.
2. Female and child will sew and cook, they can also help with preparing the food and make clothes for the slaves.
3. No physical abuse, I plan to use the slave as my citizen so I don't want to hear my future citizens dying.
"Noted my prince. I will tell my subordinates of the rule you mentioned, I will also contact the merchant chamber to prepare the extra material that we need" Piper bow his head and go to his tent to discuss with his team.
Thinking about it, Cain realizes that building a fortified city and a castle complete with their infrastructure will cost far more than 10 million gold coins as well as a huge amount of labor.
Sigh… it seems I have to rob Duke Mallory treasure vault a bit earlier than expected. Cain don't know how much money Mallory stores in his secret vault right now but it is better to rob him before the civil war start since Duke Mallory will move most of his wealth outside Vertalis Kingdom if the war begins.
Cain stay in Verzia territory almost one month to share his vision and knowledge about his new city to Piper team. Piper and his team were very surprised of how knowledgeable Prince Cain was regarding architecture and planning of a city since in the capital Cain was only popular for his reputation of chasing around woman.
Cain decide to fly back to the capital tonight to meet Papas the slave trader and he estimates that he will arrive in the capital the next morning. Cain also prepare himself to "transit" into Duke Mallory territory silently while preparing his Alibi. After midnight Cain has arrived in Duke Mallory territory while riding his Pegasus, he has managed to silently evade the wyvern knight patrolling the territory perimeter.
Cain stopped not far from mountain Luwvor, the place where Duke Mallory place his secret vault hidden deep within the mountain. Since Cain has been there before in his previous life, he has the secret vault spatial coordinate memorized inside his True rune of space and time. In doing so he only need to get closer to the vault so he can teleport inside without the need of disarming magical traps, fighting golem or other malicious surprise the Duke prepared for uninvited intruder.
Cain leave his Pegasus in the middle of the forest while sneaking around to the vault location. After he got near the vault, he concentrates his mana to his true rune and activate teleport magic. Opening his eyes, Cain can see the largest mound of gold coins he has ever seen in his life. Gold Bar, mithril, mana crystal, jewelry, antiques, rare minerals, even weapon and armor of high caliber is hidden in this vault.
Without mercy, Cain activated his True Rune of Space and Time and suck all things stored in the vault like a black hole to his space storage. He knows that his time is limited since there are enchanted items that will trigger the magic alarm if it is moved. Cain was right, not long after he stole all the things in the vault, a huge magical sound ensued. Cain take out a broken insignia of Duke Grom and Duke Strauss house to create a "convenient clue" for Duke Mallory and his men to find the culprit before he teleported out. These back to back teleport and using the space storage to store massive amount of goods run his mana dry, he can only frantically run back to his Pegasus and fly away into the night before Duke Mallory men arrived.
Back in the Capital, Cain meet with Bergen first thing in the morning to ask about the progress of both Duke "support" for him. Bergen said it will take another month before both Duke can send the tribute since it takes manpower and time to cut lumber and mining minerals. Before leaving with a satisfied nod, Cain thank Bergen for his help.
Back inside his room, Varsha as a maid in trainee help him change his clothes and prepare his bath. While soaking in a hot bath, Cain asked Lambda in his mind.
"Lambda can you help me count the value of the things we "borrow" last night?.
"Affirmative, there are 38.764.921 gold coins, 89 Kilograms of Mana crystal, 229 Kilograms of Mithril, 2.500 sets of mithril weapon and armor, 330 Kilograms of Adamantine, 273 Kilograms of Orichalcum, 12 Kilograms of Divinorum, for various jewelries and antiques I cannot determine their value since it is dependent on human taste and perspective.
Whistling, Cain was very happy, he knew Duke Mallory was rich but he never knew he was this crazy rich. The most valuable is not the gold money but the various amount of minerals inside, especially the mana crystal, with those amount he can bound more than 100 monsters to his cause if he has an available rune knight to do so. He can also use the mithril weapon and armor to create an elite force for himself after he take out the Duke house insignia embedded in the weapon and armor.
Cain feels happy when he imagine the face Duke Mallory makes right now when he found out that his secret vault that has been guarded for generations by his family has been raided clean by him overnight.