Chapter 374 - Caves can look alike

Although they still have work to do on the Fourth Section of the Coal Mine, it is never a bad idea to discover more portions of this Coal Mine before time. They have big orders to fill every month, now that it is winter the orders can and will increase.

Actually, the Coal Order has been turned in to continues. As long as this Coal mine is functioning, Bale Town will have orders to fill in for the Zamerians. Now since that Continent has richer folk who prefer coal as a primary heating source, the monthly order has bounced to 10 tons a month!

Obviously that's a lot, the town has a lot of work to put in, exploring a new section sounds an even better idea now right? They have to be prepared, they have a good name in front of the Zamerians yes but they can not risk losing such money because they are late with their progress.

Speaking of Winter, originally the Boar Leather sets of clothing project is supposed to end in the end of this year and it actually will. But they got a even more profitable order in line regarding tailoring, well Pameres Kingdom and Bale Town do.

The richer in Zameria want Fur Clothing, it provides a lot of warmth and it looks good once properly tailored. These medium quality full sets of bear leather clothing cost 200 Gold Coins each!

A great number indeed, even with the local prices here it reels in a beautiful 100,000 Gold Coin profit since the Zamerians have ordered 500 sets a month. Bale Town can handle only 200 sets a month so its pay is 36,000 Gold Coins, that's actually double from what they got out of the Boar Leather Clothing order.

Pameres Kingdom has more tailors, so they can handle making the other 300 sets of this monthly order. Neccesarily, they are earning the most out of this project. A handsome 54,000 Gold Coins a month!! This is big coin indeed, the only thing bigger than it is any order having to do with Iron.

Gaster Kingdom earns the least profit out of this project, but King Michael isn't really bothered about it. All his domain has to do, is allow the usage of the Port and earn 10,000 Gold Coins a month out of this!

Now this project will only last until March, but in the aims of getting bigger budgets and increasing military forces, this sure is an aid since it is literally making 3 Domains richer.

Now we can get in to vast detail about how much each of the Domains are earning now thanks to these two new orders alone, but those are for other Chapters and we should stick to Bale Town for now!

The monthly profit has met a tremendous bounce upwards, 49,000 Gold Coins are coming in as a clean cut profit. Amazing isn't it? I mean just a month ago the profits sunk below 20,000. That isn't neccesarily a small number either but compared to this bigger one, it is small.

Budget-wise, Bale Town still stands at the number one spot actually although maybe not for long. Transforming this town was tough, but it was sure worth it as they have piled up 530,000 Gold Coins! This is obviously the highest number ever for this little village of 50 houses and proves rather well that quality and quantity can go well together.

In pre related content, with enough work they also managed to dig out 4 tons of Iron ore out of the third section's right wing! This iron will inevitably last long, since Iron consumption is low here and they do not plan to sell it unless they have a financial crisis.

The ore is still, well ore. And will take a long time to all be turned in to Ingots considering the current amount of Blacksmiths but it is always nice to have them since they can be used basically everywhere in a developing domain.

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The walls here in Bale Town are at a great start, they have managed to dig a pitch around the Domain in no time. This pitch will support the whole wall, but of course it has to start with the meter thick foundation.

Since King Zar asked for his 40 Guards back, the town went in a slight state of panic. The Stonemasons have been put in a bit more work hours wise, and they are about 70% done with laying a foundation equal to ground elevation.

Well at least they can support this project for at least half a year material wise. They can support it financially no doubt, but the last thing they need here is to import stone from another domain.

They are trying to support the required materials with the local coal mine, in the process of mining coal they also got a lot of stone out of the mine. And undoubtedly, the amount increases every month so they might actually not meet a shortage material-wise.

They won't have to purchase actual stone from another domain. Not that they could, King Zar needs it more than anyone due to the 400 meter wide second wall he is paying to build around the Kingdom and Gaster Kingdom doesn't really have a functioning mine.

One thing that is bad on one way and helps in the other, is the fact that stones become more common the deeper they go. Dirt mostly dissapeared and could appear in a small patch randomly, but rock no. Rocks just get more common and the material in between it gets more expensive.

So what does this prove? Stone quantities will eventually increase monthly which is practically perfectly timed, the wall will have no material shortage problems.

In order for the rest of the Miners to access the fifth section, another tall tower has to be build so transportation of materials becomes a lot easier. However this time, the tower is shorter than ever since the drop is only 10 meters deep.

They started building the tower now, although they aren't even half way there to mining the Material in the fourth Section. This will increase the odds of success when trying to fulfill the 10 ton monthly order that has been increased this winter.

Now when Bill examined the fifth section, two things came in his mind right after a quick view. This is actually a cave, and not a tunnel and it looks a lot like the Second Section.

Shape-wise, its walls are too lumpy to actually determine an appropriate size. But is is 50 meters long and 40 meters wide, a bit bigger than the Second Section no doubt (About 15-20%) but the reverse fact here is that it has a lot less coal compared to the Second Section.

This wide structure with its cieling about 10 meters above their heads, has around 40% Coal, 10% Iron Ore and 50% Stone. When you put those in percentages they give and at the same time don't give an accurate view.

To make it more clear, there is an estimated 9 tons of Coal here, 1 ton of Iron Ore and at least 15 tons of Stone. The Stone is a different topic and really depends on how much the Miners can afford it time-wise.

9 tons of coal might not be the most to support a 10 ton monthly order, but when paired with the fourth section it sure is a lot! I mean, these 9 tons alone can bring 45,000 Gold Coins in this town and split them according to the deals in between the triangle of Domains.

Something rather interesting they have found here, is the fact that they managed to find some gems here. They are just a handful of red powerless gems commonly used on jewelry for the Richer.

Gustav Iron found them interesting, so he paid 3,000 Gold Coins for it. He doesn't like fancy jewelry, but he likes their natural shape. Well hey, either way this is 3,000 more Gold Coins in the Budget.

Although it is in the far future, moving on to the sixth section could be the easiest so far. The drop is just 10 meters and the ground will inevitably be dug in deep. If they become a bit lucky, they will only have to build a staircase there instead of a tower.

Time wise this will prove the most effective because they won't be held back by such a construction and can get behind a pickaxe right away!

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Bottom line, this town has progressed tremendously. But there are only 3 types of profit, in other words three assets. Other domains might have assets that earn less, but they have over ten of them which build up a tremendous profit.

They have to find a fourth or more source of profit, for the sake of not blowing their whole budget on monthly maintenance if their sources of income were suddenly cut!