Transmigrating straight into hell mode: 3,000 gold coins in debt, with 10 days to repay. If he can't pay, his territory will be auctioned off, and all 312 residents will be sold into slavery.
Ron Wushan looked at the mess before him and calmly opened the ledger. "Let's do the math first."
A planner's mind from his previous life, combined with the awakened [Lord Simulator]: before every major decision, he could preview how things would turn out.
[Simulation: Flee with the money. Ambushed and killed by hunters on Day 3. Survival rate: 0%.]
[Simulation: Launch a frontal assault to take back the honey. Four casualties. Success rate: 12%.]
[Simulation: Raid along the hunters' trail at night... Success rate: 89%.]
Fleeing meant death. Fighting head-on meant death. So he'd take a third path.
And so the entire continent was left baffled.
This dirt-poor frontier lord repaid his enormous debt in ten days, opened a market, built irrigation canals, and lit up the trees. He transformed a shabby village of 312 people into the greatest city in the Western Lands.
When Baron Ironthorn tried to strangle his economy, he countered with an industrial upgrade that doubled profits.
When the nobles of the royal capital tried to fleece him financially, he issued bonds backed by an underground magic crystal mine and bankrupted them instead.
When 200,000 soldiers of the Noll Empire marched to his border, he crushed an empire's ambitions head-on with a single city.
Knights and mages competed on parallel paths, magic crystals and gold coins clashed as currencies, and elves, dwarves, beastfolk, and dragons all took turns joining the fray...
Yet no one knew that this unremarkable Wushan Territory stood on the ruins of the Starfall Empire's eastern capital, destroyed three thousand years ago. The slumbering Heart of the City was awakening. The age of Dawn City had only just begun.
"I'm not building a city. I'm building a civilization."
[Infrastructure Building + Farming + Simulated Foresight + Two Paths of Cultivation + Magic
