A large mansion, beautiful maids, and other servants attending to his every need were luxuries Seon-Hyeok had never imagined having. However, he wasn’t able to fully enjoy these benefits. After all, such luxuries were maintained using his own financial resources.

“Ugh. I’m going to go crazy.”

Maintaining the mansion cost money. Paying his servants cost money. It seemed as though even breathing cost money. He was able to pay the upkeep costs using the financial rewards received from the royal family, but he had no other sources of revenue once those resources were drained.

His ambition to rule over a prosperous territory faded away, and he was in such a desperate situation that he couldn’t even afford to walk around his territory.

“Damn it. It’s always money.”

Fortunately, the hundred members of the Drake Cavalry assumed much of the responsibilities that a local militia would have, and as a result, he wasn’t pressed to recruit soldiers right away. Even so, there were countless expenses involving maintaining a territory.

How could I have known being a lord would be so expensive? 

No, it wasn’t specifically that being a lord was expensive....