The Floating City, as a colossal magical creation, demands a construction cost that is truly unimaginable.
This thing doesn't just swallow gold; it practically swallows everything.
Dozens or even hundreds of kilograms of thorium are used as if they were nothing.
Thousands of kilograms of fine gold—no one even knows where it's all spent.
Super magical materials, calculated by the ton, are heart-wrenching to use.
Not to mention the various expenditures of manpower, the investment in numerous new technologies, and the construction of various arrays and facilities.
For a mage lord of the duke level, the cost of building a Floating City could deplete the entire territory's resources.
Even for an ordinary kingdom, it would absolutely cause significant detriment.
But for the Bay Territory, this is not something unacceptable.
The massive input and consumption, with the Bay Territory's current resource-generating capability, only account for about a third of the total.
