I, the Villain, Want to Save Myself, But the Yandere Heroines Disagree-Chapter 115 - The Mountain Storm Finally Comes (1/2)

Antica Duchy, Antica City, Duke’s Mansion.

This morning, Mary was handling official documents submitted from various regions as usual.

Having been semi-warned by Lucius once before, Mary no longer dared to do things outside her duties.

After finishing her work, she stood up and walked to the door.

At the doorway, her loyal guard, Randall, was already waiting. Seeing her come out, he quickly took the coat from the hanger by the door and draped it over Mary’s shoulders.

Time had already entered September, gradually stepping into autumn. Although the room had magic devices to maintain heating, one still needed to wear more clothes when going outside to face the sudden temperature change and prevent catching a cold.

“Madam, are you going out today?” After helping Mary put on her coat, Randall stood respectfully to the side, looking very much like a loyal guard.

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“I’ll go to the master’s room first. Someone else is responsible for the municipal construction of Antica City. I just need to go check on the situation occasionally,” Mary stated.

In the past three to four months, the construction group under Celineina had already completed the construction of Antica City’s new district. During the construction process, they utilized the power of mages, making the originally heavy transportation tasks relatively easier. Throughout the entire construction process, cutting building materials and low-altitude operations also saw widespread participation from mages.

Of course, among this batch of participating mages, there were very few half-baked Tier 1 or Tier 2 mages. Most were professional Tier 3 mages, hired by Celineina through the Adventurers’ Guild.

To establish the reputation of the construction department, Celineina spared no expense, deliberately hiring a Tier 6 mage to serve as the general commander of the construction site’s mage team.

Because of this, in just a few months, a brand new Antica City new district was completed. Several urban problems originally faced by Antica City were almost instantly solved.

Initially, Mary was worried whether the citizens of Antica City would be unwilling to leave their hometown, but later it proved that Mary had simply overthought it.

With a more comfortable environment and a better overall atmosphere, located right next to their original homes, the citizens were certainly more willing to move there.

At the same time, after this round of new district construction, Antica City, whose population growth had gradually stalled, gained momentum again to attract immigrants.

The reason why the Antica Duchy hadn’t developed much before was because its core city was too small.

As a ducal capital, Antica City could only be considered a medium-sized city in the Empire. After this round of expansion, Antica City could barely enter the ranks of large cities, but compared to the capitals of other duchies, it was still far behind.

In the Empire’s city rankings, the first place undoubtedly belonged to the capital, Saint Roland City. Then, in the first tier of large cities were Romulus City of the Napoli Duchy, Brandenburg City of the Prussia Duchy, Pari City of the Orleans Duchy, Navarre City of the Aragon Duchy, and Neva City of the Lucia Duchy.

The second tier of large cities consisted of the second core cities of the Imperial Family’s direct territories and other duchies, meaning spontaneously formed large cities far from the ducal capitals.

Only after these did Antica City come into consideration.

Ultimately, it was greatly related to the relatively late establishment of the Antica Duchy.

The western part of the Antica Duchy, including Antica City, was originally carved out from the Imperial Family’s direct territory and was not an economic center. The eastern part, newly conquered territory, had many cities that were previously independent city-states, making it difficult to unite them for common development.

Developing the core city of the Antica Duchy this time could drive the development of the entire Antica Duchy.

This was the reason Orson persuaded Lucius and Mary to use Celineina’s construction team to build the new Antica district.

Initially, when Orson proposed building the new district, Mary also agreed. However, Mary only saw how the new district could alleviate the old problems of Antica City, neglecting the new hope the new district could bring to Antica City.

Now, as the effects of the new district slowly became apparent, Mary was astonished by Orson’s foresight.

But following that came deep fear.

She originally thought Orson was only skilled in literary and military strategies, but now it seemed Orson also possessed far superior insight in governance and administration.

If that was the case, once Orson graduated and returned, would there be no place for her in this family? Would she have to hand over the financial power then?

After all, although Mary had firmly held the duchy’s financial power for so many years, she had merely ensured the smooth development of the duchy, preventing accidents along the way, without achieving substantial leaps and bounds.

But Orson, with just this one plan, seemed capable of invigorating the entire economy of the Antica Duchy.

This child, clearly having barely touched money growing up, why was he so capable?

So clever, it was as if he had lived two lifetimes.

Thinking this, Mary walked to the door of Lucius’s room.

Pushing the door open, Mary saw Lucius lying on the floor, fallen in a pool of blood.

She slumped to the ground in shock.

“Quick... someone come! The Duke has been assassinated!” Saying this, Mary quickly shouted behind her.

Randall was the first to arrive. Reaching the doorway and seeing the fallen Lucius, he rushed over and helped him up.

Then, the butler Albert also ran over.

“Master! Master!” he said, coming beside Lucius. After checking Lucius’s breathing and finding he was still alive, he quickly ran out to call a doctor.

The entire Duke’s mansion was extremely busy today.