Chapter 342 - 100k

In the triangle of domains, there indeed is a lot of progress going on or at least motion. Let us move towards the soul domain, Pameres Kingdom! Before we can get behind the statistics, let us indulge in to something lighter.

For example, Crisa the lovely caring maid in the Pameres Castle. And Zar, the respected ruler of Pameres Kingdom, the first son of Xakro ill.u.s.tratio lll.

"Have you had your dinner?" Crisa asked as she returned from her house to continue her shift. She was on break for three days based on the schedule and the first thing she asked is if the King ate.

"Yes, I did about an hour ago." The King answered lightly, with a smile across his face happy to see Crisa. He missed her a tad bit, missed the way how she always tries to look out for him. "How were your days off?"

The King caring about her day? Sweet at least, and commonly unusual since she wasn't asked to share a bed with him. "Oh it was nice, I helped my mother settle in her new office."

That's right, new office. Well more like, building. This is a new building made outside of the first walls and already has people under recruitment, people of which Tedradia herself is hand picking. People that she thinks can perform the duty swimmingly.

"I assume she is doing a great job there aye?" King Zar showed trust but on the other hand wanted to ask for a second view on it. "I've asked her to look through the Craftsmen and see if any of them show signs of stress."

"Yes she told me and yes she is doing an amazing job, she is very excited." Knowing how many times her mom has mentioned support and compliments as a great way of mental progress, Crisa used the opportunity. "By the way that was a great idea, I don't think people would come to the office in another way."

"Um yes." King Zar started thinking it through and accepted her compliment. "Thank you. I really thought that portraying this new building as a luxury would drag in new people, I had to pay a lot of rumour spreaders to change the preview."

"It is off too a rough start I'm aware." Crisa tried to protect her mother and this new building as well, "But eventually it will pay off better, this is too unusual for the masses and a lot tend to avoid being part of a banter."

"Oh I know that." King Zar answered as he waved his hand down, signifying Crisa to be calm. "Me and Seer have reversed a lot of bad mindsets so far, this is but a little seed."

Seeing that Crisa is mostly out of words, he wanted to open up another topic. He asked, "Would you like to come with me? I want to visit the therapy building."

"I would love too!" She answered with joy and immediately complimented. "If people see you there, they would be more motivated to try it out."

"Exactly my point." He smiled as he stood up, walking towards Crisa so they can start their little walk out of the Castle and towards the building.

But getting a little bit nervous to walk along the King throughout town this time instead of to her house which is close by, as she started to walk she tripped over her own foot and almost fell down.

Well... I did say almost, but if it wasn't for King Zar she could have caught a nose bleed here. He tried to be as agile as possible, quickly slipped his arm underneath her belly and kept her up. Although... he almost fell down over her due to the fact that he had to find a firm position in a split second.

Feeling tremendously embarrassed, she stood up straight as King Zar removed his arm from around her waist. She spoke under a low tone, "Thank you very much Sire."

"Oh you're welcome." He smiled, keeping calm and barely embarrassed. Afterwards adding. "Shall we go now?"

"Of course of course."

...

The therapy building has been put under a budget limitation, meaning Tedradia can't hire 30 people for example. Due to the fact that they have 150k of expenses to deal with, the monthly budget here is 2,000 Gold Coins.

Along with the work Tedradia does with King Zar, her salary in this building is 500 gold coins a month. As for how much apprentices are paid, it is all up to her. She receives the Budget and she will be handing it out to her apprentices.

As for how much progress King Zar has made? Well before Tedradia put in work, he used to stay up until midnight and throughout most of the week he used to get very drunk.

Now that damage hasn't been dealt with entirely, but thanks to all of Tedradia's help under a short period of time such behaviour has been reduced. He only gets drunk at midnight only twice a week, eh it might not be the best deal but it is progress.

In no time he will quit such behaviour completely. Now whenever he grabs a bottle late at night, he remembers Tedradia's words of wisdom. "You can't be held responsible about what your family did out of their gold l.u.s.t. You can only take responsibility over the deeds you do, in front of your people here you are a Hero."

To some it might just be a pile of works but to the King, it is all that he wanted to hear. The progress is great, and with her help the King even increased his own productivity. He can feel his thoughts clearing out, he feels a bit more free.

Due to the fact that Mental Therapies are having a hard time being accepted from the people, in the first year it won't bring in any profit. It will be completely free and anyone can go there, after a year the King wants to put a cheap price over each session.

Not only will it increase overall productivity due to the mental relief, but it will also bring in some nice profit which is in all ways nice to see. As for now the thought of using this luxury should be imprinted in their minds.

One great business deal that saved Seer's and Maleesa's behinds here is the fact that the 80 hired Blacksmiths have been putting in their hours of work and granted the Kingdom an income.

Of course they required some tampering first, meaning they needed an order. After some market research, Seer found out that Iron Shields are a great business opportunity.

Reason behind it, is that it is made fast and doesn't require much material apart from a couple of Iron ingots and wood. One apprentice can make 4 shields each week! A great amount isn't it? One Iron Shield costs 50 Gold Coins.

So what would it equal when 80 apprentice Blacksmiths make 4 of them each week? 1,280 Shields can be made in a span of a month! The Zamerians wouldn't ever miss such an opportunity to triple their money in vast expanse.

Gold-wise this will dig them out of trouble, 64 thousand Gold Coins will be sent each month for an expected 6 months. Since the quantities are big they can't really stretch this work for over a year.

Of course this deal isn't official yet but it likely will be because King Zar has guaranteed good work throughout all of their business transactions. This is all the Kingdom needed to at least break even here with the 400 new employees hired.

The Blacksmiths alone will make it possible for all the Stonemasons to keep their job, meaning the wall will be built under a short period of months or maybe a few years depending on how fast the pace is.

...

With a new set of Boar Leather clothing under process of being ordered, and the quantity this time being large enough to bring in 60 thousand gold coins. The order is too big however, the work has to be tackled with the team at Bale Town.

For BaleTown the pay will remain 18,000 until the new year as for Pameres Kingdom it will be 42,000! Such a deal can only be handed now with 40 tailors in total being hired.

With this upgrade in the budget, the Kingdom breaks even with a profit of 40 thousand. Amazing isn't it? Over 700 people under the Kingdom's employment yet they still earn a great profit.

Seer was the definition of a Genius when he pitched such a great move, it inevitably upgraded the Budget which led towards another form of progress. Since in most houses, more than one salary is brought home it opens up new doors.

He no longer has to sell food at half a price, here it will bounce the budget a little bit and they could be breaking with a profit of over 60,000 a month!