Chapter 235 - Stupid rich

April has struck upon Ignis, although the cold season is gone for now, the heat won't prove as satisfying here now with so many projects going on. It is great that the triangle of Domains has projects to work on however, it is of course better than nothing.

Speaking of projects, the Zamerians have offered another deal having to do with Iron! Apparently all those 2,000 Iron Swords made until now, were just used for practice in various training yards spread around a portion of Zameria, 1/3 of the Swords even are unusable now.

That might come out as a bad thing considering the period of time(6 months), but when we think that Zameria is the Continent carrying people who have super speed as a power, this is actually a great result. The King of Lav Kingdom complimented the Blacksmithery here in Pameres Kingdom. Stating that 2,000 swords used to last for a year at max. 3 million people live in Zameria so that isn't really a big surprise.

The King made a new 8 month long order. It will start now in April and end in the new year! But there is a twist, he requires 4,000 Swords. He is well aware of Ignis' lack of population which inevitably leads to the lack of proper blacksmiths, so there wouldn't be any casualties if the all 4,000 Swords aren't delivered by the end of the year.

With an experienced Blacksmith sent at BaleTown, one idea popped up in King Zar's head. Cooperation. They can cooperate to make a good profit together! However, since Pameres Kingdom will provide all of the Iron ore for Bale Town to convert into Iron Swords, plus considering the travel expenses. Pameres Kingdom can't afford to give Bale Town 100% of the profit from each Sword. He is thinking about providing them with 50% of it!

It can be considered the most fair for both domains. As much as we are concerned, King Zar can just stretch the project for 10 months for Pameres Kingdom to tackle this task. Another portion which might come as as tempting, is that 10% of the overall profit Bale Town makes from this project will not help on paying the port of Gaster Kingdom in order to avoid big mathematical complications. If Bale Town later on manages to provide more swords, they will have to pay a seperate 10% fee at the port.

This sort of deal will benefit them both, but timing will be troublesome for the first month at least. Because the Zamerians come at the dock to pick up the Swords at the beginning of each month. So for Bale Town to properly deliver their craft, they need to have the Swords ready in the middle of the month. It will no doubt prove troublesome at first but it is in all ways manageable afterwards.

The miners have been piling up more Iron from Pameres Kingdom's mineral rich Mines due to the order reaching an end. So delivering a months worth of Ore to Bale Town won't neccesarily be a problem. Although not well informed, King Zar assumes that there are 10 Blacksmiths there by now. And since they are all apprentices, they can only make a Sword per day! So he sent a couple of Wagons carrying Iron ore, together of which summed up around 500 pieces. The blacksmiths there have to turn the Ore into Iron, King Zar wanted for Pameres Kingdom to tackle the task for them but the Blacksmiths here have no time since they will be tackling most of the order.

6 months of fast paced experience proved useful for the 3 most experienced Blacksmiths along with the second batch of less experienced (Compared to the 3.) and of course for all of the Apprentices too! When they started the first Iron Sword project 6 months ago, their best progress was 304 Swords per month for this entire group of 54 Blacksmiths.

But now? Although one experienced Blacksmith is replaced by an apprentice, they manage to make 400 Swords a month thanks to all of their experience so far! The Apprentices of which bring the most progress since some have started making 2 Swords a day! If these 54 Blacksmiths one day all manage to make 3 Swords a day, there won't be any order too big!

Another considerable progress, is that Lav Kingdom has offered to purchase a lot of sets of clothing. Which resulted to King Zar having to hire a total of 20 Tailors (Previously hired ones included.). How big is this order you might ask? Well they ordered 1,000 sets of leather clothing. Which includes leather pants, a leather jerking accompanied by a harder to tailor Leather shirt and even cute little leather hats. When put together, each set costs 100 Gold Coins!

But there is a twist! This is no project that would take 6+ months! Lav Kingdom requires their order to be completed under 3 months! This can be tricky since one tailor can only make a complete set in 3 days, all of them together can only make 200 sets. So this project requires 5 months! So along with the offer of making some profits from the Swords, King Zar also sent another offer to make profit from some leather.

Considering the hunting team there, it wouldn't be much of a problem especially since they ordered them to be made from Boar Leather. Apparently Boar Leather is less common there, so Lav Kingdom will make big Coin selling it to the richer with an estimated 66% profit. When it comes to splitting profit, Bale Town can make 50% of the whole project if they manage to deliver at least 200 sets each month. Since both domains have 20 Tailors each, it isn't really a problem. For this task however, both will have to pay the 10% fee at the port. It isn't neccesarily a problem, both will make a whooping 18,000 Gold Coins each month from this project! For 3 months at least.

The Wagons are another set of profit for Pameres Kingdom primarily! When it comes to transferring such products to another Continent, it is no doubt tricky! Reason? Well it requires bigger sh.i.p.s who can only accept Wagons to transport, and only about 10 of them can fit in those bigger sh.i.p.s.

For Lav Kingdom, it is a risk they are willing to take considering the profit of 66% or more from each Wagon! That's a lot of Gold Coins and such opportunity can not be thrown! Lav Kingdom offers an ongoing order stretching to a year! Yes a year. Each month Pameres Kingdom will provide 30 Wagons, totalling 360 after the end of the project and undoubtedly an income if 144,000 Gold coins for Pameres Kingdom. With this many offers at hand, each civilian here will be filthy rich in just a decade.

Eggs have become a bit popular in the triangle of Kingdoms! Pameres Kingdom ordered 200 each month, and Bale Town has ordered 50 each month. Such a treasure of a food can't be given for free. So its price is dumped down to 5 Gold Coins, to inspire people to work so they can afford them. Considering all of this profit from 3 projects, it is totally affordable.

The 435 Leather Jerking order has been temporarily put on hold. The people of Gaster Kingdom aren't exactly in the mood due to all of this loss! Perhaps in the future it will be a different approach towards this project.

Last but not least, lets talk about Coal! Ignis isn't quite known for Coal so such offer came as a surprise in Lav Kingdom. The order is too good to be true but there is still only so much one domain can afford even if it comes from a richer Continent. So taking the offer to a neighbouring Kingdom in Zameria, the King of Lav Kingdom managed to strike a deal for King Zar. Necessarily, for Bale Town.

Good enough they even offered to buy it at Ignis' usual price. It is not easy to sell it in Zameria, but that King apparently has other ideas. It is none of the King Zar's business either way! Since the Mine is rich, that King has ordered 5,000 Kilograms of it! Favourably delivered under 4 months but can be stretched if neccesary.

The Crates are also to be paid, it is a pay that no Domain will be able to earn a profit from except Bale Town. They are already quite cheap.

The shipping expenses will be covered by the buyer, all they have to do is provide the Coal. The total income of this deal is 25,000 Gold Coins! King Zar has helped strike this deal, so he gently requests 5% of its profits and of course Gaster Kingdom will earn another 10%. Bale Town will still earn 21,375 Gold Coins so it isn't a big deal. Such fees aren't a lot, but Pameres Kingdom needs a lot of Gold back of which it spend and will continue to spend due to defence upgrades.

Speaking of defences, with most of the two platoons gone. He requires 60 Guards of the 100 to stay in Pameres Kingdom, while the other 40 go back to Bale Town. It is a rather desperate move, but if Pameres Kingdom is invaded, this triangle of Kingdoms will crumble into failure after.