Chapter 389 - Year 202

The new year here in Ignis broke yesterday, most throughout the Continent decide to celebrate this day with some Ale and a feast, to congratulate one another for surviving this long. Here in Gaster Kingdom, a feast that can hold 800 people would be rather hard to organise due to the fact that even the Castle can't hold them but it would be unfair to say that its Civilians weren't rewarded.

An extra bottle of Black Gr.a.p.e Ale has been delivered house to house along with an extra badge of free food for the day, of which had better quality and taste compared to what they usually eat.

King Michael even sent an extra badge of food and Ale to the 800 Calidum Lutum in front of the Kingdom. They didn't exactly like Ale due to the fact that they just discovered it here a few weeks ago but they can appreciate the gesture.

As for Castle officials and King Eric's friends, they have all held a little feast in the Castle. They are celebrating Survival and the inevitable progress they have all made thanks to hard work, the Castle was free of Children and Elderly since they all went to celebrate with the rest of their race.

The extra donated food, was given in aims to further win over the masses here in Gaster Kingdom. It's people are obviously in some aspects over worked but in no way underpaid.

Sure when you look at it from a prespective where salaries were as low as 20 Gold Coins, it does sound like underpaid. But when you look at the fact that food was freely distributed 2-3 times a day, it makes up for the low salariess. In a family of four, it can cost 100-150 Gold Coins a month to feed the members twice a day depending on what food they pick, which gives a grasp of how much expenses King Michael covered.

Regardless, a lot of people still look at the fact that salaries were as low as 20 Gold Coins which is why he had to win over the masses with free food, he needs their productivity to stay sharp as they develop this Budget.

Considering some calculations, after the new year here King Michael has decided to win over the masses furthermore with another Salary raise for any Employee who earns under 150 Gold Coins a month. This will prove the promises he made in Autumn true, it will prove that he is trying to give them more gold.

The raise is another 20 Gold Coins higher, it doesn't look like the biggest but it inevitably means that more Employees are bringing gold in their house without expenses after, which will make selling them food easier in the future since these people just keep piling up cash. But to sell food to them, they all of course have to earn at least 150 Gold Coins.

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Due to this little Salary raise, the monthly expenses here in Gaster Kingdom have bumped up to 59,528 Gold Coins. For this Kingdom it is large, but in a way it is also showing a limit. It is telling King Michael that he needs to be a bit slower with the Salary raises if he wishes to build up a biger Budget, without establishing another Source of income it would be a bad idea to tamper with the Salaries.

Well now regardless of that fact, the monthly profit hasn't been damaged beyond prepare. For Gaster Kingdom it still remains as a big when sum considering that they have started from absolute scratch. At the moment, Gaster Kingdom will still make a monthly clear profit of 40,102 Gold Coins.

In the following chart you will see how much Employees Gaster Kingdom has, how much they earn each and how many individuals each craft has. The intend behind it is to give a proper definition and overall understanding of the salaries, it tends to favour realism.

Striped Marlin fishers (4 Employees) - 500 Gold Coins each.

First team of Fishermen (18 Employees) - 135 Gold Coins each.

First team of Spearfishermen (23 Employees) - 155 Gold Coins each.

Guard Trainer/Commander Woldemir - 400 Gold Coins.

Healer Ladia - 200 Gold Coins.

Farmers (30 Employees) - 150 Gold Coins each.

First and most trained Platoon of Guards (30 People) - 130 Gold Coins each.

First team of Lumberjacks (10 Employees) - 120 Gold Coins each.

Bow hunters, which includes a team of 30 Females - 160 Gold Coins each.

Blacksmiths (50 Employees) - 110 Gold Coins each.

Construction Workers (3 Employees) - 90 Gold Coins each.

Chicken keepers or guards (10 Employees) - 90 Gold Coins each.

Second team of Fishermen/women (30 Employees) - 80 Gold Coins each.

Second team of Spearfishermen/women (20 Employees) - 80 Gold Coins each.

Second team of Lumberjacks (20 Employees) - 80 Gold Coins each.

Second Platoon of Guards (100 People) - 50 Gold Coins each.

It is rather easy to see from this chart that the salaries here aren't the worst and that the King has proven effective on raising them. The second Platoon of Guards still earns the least, but eventually they too will earn 150 Gold Coins.

As you can see, the first ever team of Spearfishermen along with the Bow Hunters that contains females only, are now earning over 150 Gold Coins which in many ways is a big achievement. It means that King Michael managed to pay 48 people here over 150 Gold Coins and that he has 48 people less to worry about when declaring another Salary raise.

This will inevitably make the expenses rise slower after another Salary raise, and furthermore increased the morale of the Kingdom, with the most earning employees as an inspiration, most of the Kingdom's employees are working harder.

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In the meantime, with January breaking King Michael has been gifted with tens of rats to continue his marvellous experiments on! Now he feels eager to try new mixes, to see what it will bring to the table. This will make the whole experimental log more complicated but that's what ink and quill are for, right?

As a method of training, Ladia has been brought to the experimental room. If throughout the experiments a Rat actually gets hurt, she will be there to try and heal one. It is good practice and it wouldn't be a huge loss for the Kingdom if she failed so they have barely anything to loose.

The couple of Demon Carcasses at the end of the room are getting more and more disgusting by the passing day, their stench is so bad that you would think even a Rat has double thoughts about digging its teeth in one. But King Michael wants to test if the freshness of the meat affects the experiments, that's what the extra rats are for.

Today, he has decided to continue this mutation cycle he started weeks earlier. Example what can double mutated Rats turn in to, now that he has more Rats, why not.

"Alama can you write this down?" He requested, turning around to see the two ladies holding their noses because of the stench and Ladia being close to throwing up.

"Common it doesn't stink that bad." He added, finding this scene in front of him hilarious. "It is in the means of Research."

"Research is disgusting." Alama added, trying to look away from the decomposing Demon.

"Just write this down." He waved his hand a bit as he turned his attention to the fresh three rats in the room. Well not exactly fresh, they have been mutated a bit earlier by him with Demon waists. "Demon toe, Rat who has been mutated with Demon waist as the consumer."

Afterwards he spared no second with dropping the meat in and watched the changes upon the test subject. "Well this is interesting." He murmured a tad bit as he witnessed the changes.

Afterwards, without looking back he requested. "Write down the result. The Rat has attained a triple head size." After a short second, they heard the just mutated Rat repeating. "Triple head size, triple head size, triple head size."

After hearing it out, King Michael added. "A possible side effect could be increased intelligence."

Jotting down swiftly on the Parchment, she swiftly responded in the meantime. "Yes yes yes, go ahead with the second Experiment, this stench will be the death of me."

"Calm down, we can't afford inaccurate experimental logs." He said, with a smile across his face. As if the smell isn't annoying enough, the King is teasing them.

Turning to the second rat, he spoke (To Alama). "Demon Waist, Rat who has been mutated with Demon Waist as the Consumer."

Thinking it through as he tossed the meat in the Cage, he said. "Double mutation with the same type of meat, this should be interesting."

This Rat has been earlier mutated with Demon Waist and has attained Quadrupled teeth size, so what it will turn out now should be interesting. Its not like anything in this experimental log isn't interesting but still. "Well I'll be damned." He shouted mildly.

Standing up again since he almost did a push up trying to glance at the Rat's teeth, he continued to explain. "This Rat has gotten a set of Razor sharp teeth, imagine applying this on a Chicken."

"Oh my Source again with the Chicken." Alama gave out a large loud sigh, obviously more irritated with the stench.

"Just be patient, we have one more experiment for today and you are free. I should bring you nose plugs next time haha." He still remained giggling, happy about this highly usable mutation.

"Write this new long down! Demon Head, Rat who has been mutated with Demon waist as the Consumer." Afterwards as if this process has become something he can do without thinking, he dropped the meat in the cage.

Afterwards the Rat bursted towards the Cage walls and started chewing on them, although ineffective. This move however made King Michael jump back a little bit and afterwards he smirked with joy realising how dangerous this mutation can be against an enemy.