Chapter 205 - Requiring Five Hundred Thousand Believers
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I, The Dragon Overlord Chapter 205 - Requiring Five Hundred Thousand Believers

The crowd cheered with great enthusiasm. By contrast, the expressions of the well0dressed individuals who stood next to Louie and the queen were ashen.

“Uncle, what do we do? If we can’t sell off our stock, we’ll eat a huge loss.”

A young man of about twenty anxiously asked the bearded forty-year-old man beside him.

They were from a family of merchants with a large sum of wealth. After hearing that Dragon City had not collapsed under its new lord’s leadership and that it was in fact flourishing, they invested the larger part of their funds in bringing in carts of salt from salt-producing countries. They had intended to make a fortune by scalping the populace.

Now, however, the city lord’s decree had effectively ruined them. Not only was the quality of his salt leaps and bounds above what they brought, but its price put theirs to shame many times over.

The man who was called uncle by the young man had cold sweat on his forehead. He gritted his teeth and said in a fierce voice, “Let us wait a bit more. Dragon City does not produce its own salt. I do not believe that the lord can continue selling salt for such a low price for a long time. Dragon City has more than a hundred thousand people. It won’t take long for problems to arise when they sell at such prices.”

Although he said that, the man knew that his words were whimsical by just looking at the citizens of the city. The residents of the city could eat white bread every day as if it was a cheap good. Even a merchant family like them couldn’t afford this back at home.

In all likelihood, the city lord would sustain this practice for the foreseeable future. Thinking of this, the middle-aged man began to despair.

They had incurred huge expenses in hiring mercenaries to protect them as they transported their cargo to Dragon City. If they had to leave with it, the costs of protection on the way back and the losses due to dangers on the way would only make things worse.

Although Louie knew that the merchants were risking a lot to ship these salt, the benefits that they gained wer

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