"One million gold coins."

"Is that… Dad’s wealth?"

"No, it’s our debt! Kaaaaaah!"

I clutched the compensation bill in my hands and let out a wail of despair.

The price of obliterating half of the Empire’s most important facility—the Academy—was a crushing debt that even selling off the entire family estate wouldn’t cover.

The treatment for the victims was complete, and parts of the destroyed buildings had been rebuilt using the residual energy from dismantling the Tower of Illusions. But there was still so much left to restore.

The most significant problem was the destruction of facilities that contained expensive …