With that, she tossed a stack of 'loan agreements' as thick as a dictionary to David:
"This is the main gist of it. If you've understood, then just press your claw here on this tripartite agreement to sign."
David flipped through the so-called agreement with a flick of his claw. His vision immediately darkened at the sight of the 'astronomical figure,' but at least it was as Tiamat had said.
This mission was purely his 'wish fulfillment,' with the Dragon Queen footing the bill, so at least he didn't have to worry about the exorbitant costs this time.
If he really had to start from scratch to build a Sky City—leaving aside the issue of lost technology and whether it could even be built—the spell development costs just for the [Proctyv's Mount-Moving] spell, used earlier by the Archduchess to 'move mountains,' alone amounted to a staggering 2.23 million Gold Coins. And that was just for one of the arcane spells.
