Chapter 161: I’ll Never Give My Heart (3)
For commoners, a rich person was someone who owned one thousand gold. To the middle class, it took ten times that—ten thousand gold—to be considered wealthy. To the upper class, ten times again—one hundred thousand gold—was what it took to truly be called rich.
In truth, even ten thousand gold was enough for a family of four to live comfortably for the rest of their lives in a small kingdom. With one hundred thousand gold, even their descendants’ descendants could live in luxury within the Samael Empire.
But what about one million gold? At that point, it wasn’t an exaggeration to say it could change the fate of an entire noble family. Money bred money; unless they wasted it like a fool, made reckless investments, or suffered from a catastrophic disaster, just sitting on that fortune was enough to support countless future generations.
If just a million gold can do that...
Kai looked at the check closer and examined it from various angles. No matter how many times he checked, it was a genuine blank check issued by Infinite Bank. Just owning such a check was already proof of holding assets over a million gold.
But the number written on this check was six million gold. It was enough to fund a major merchant guild, and enough to establish six small noble families.
“Keter, do you really have this kind of money?”
Kai couldn’t believe it. Keter looked like a young man who looked to be in his early twenties at most. Of course, a high noble, especially one from a master family, could boast of having five million gold, but only in total assets; a high noble’s total wealth could exceed tens of millions of gold if accounting for real estate, buildings, and intangible assets.
But a noble that could instantly withdraw five million gold in cash? There would maybe be ten of them across all of Lillian Kingdom.
When Kai asked if he truly possessed six million gold, Keter nodded with a satisfied smile.
“It’s not every day you see wealth that surprises a spy from the empire.”
Keter’s smugness made Kai genuinely wonder something.