Chapter 399 - Tourists Arriving

The stone wall! In Bale Town considered one of the most important Construction yet by its residents. The Foundation has been successfully set, and it almost looks 100% pristine. The reason why it isn't entirely perfect, is due to the fact that the Stonemasons are trying to build this wall as fast as possible.

Parts of the Constructions that will take the most time, are the Watch towers. They are thicker in width and taller too so it isn't a surprise that they take more time. But the choices are either building watch towers or meter thick walls, the second option can take 3-5 years at least with double the employees. 3-5 years if they are lucky.

But they need a 200 meter long wall fast, and the Watch towers will compensate the wall's lack of thickness. For now, the Blacksmiths just need to give their best in order to make the construction possible, after all they are earning a fat bonus along with a Salary. What would this town do without the great ill.u.s.tratian, Gustav Iron?

Speaking of Salaries, it is worth pointing out that there are no new hires and no Salary raises either. This isn't necessarily a big problem since they are all earning a Salary while eating almost whenever they please, this is middle class life here in the not so fine Country of Occidentis Ignis.

At more wholesome news, the rest of the Willson brothers have attained a promotion at work under the declaration of Guard Commander Delrus Aze. Bert has earned a promotion way before the rest, he is a financial advisor and quite deserving of his title, being smarter by a Nudge more.

But today we will be speaking about Mert and Eert. As a start, Mert will be a town Leader. This is a big title, and in most points of view the biggest title yet. But do his brothers find jealously that Mert has gotten this title instead of them? Hell no, they are too smart to have envy on their own brother.

Mert is very deserving of this title, and when this Governing Contract from Pameres Kingdom meets with an end, Mert will be taking the big shots onwards with of course his brothers giving their opinions as well due to their titles.

It is a great title indeed, but who holds a Domain up and helps it progress? Employees of course, without employees an income would drop and be flat. Eert will be in charge of the Employees from now on.

Hiring new employees or raising Salaries is a big deal, and it can determine if the income grows or drops. Eert will now have full control on how many Employees to hire and when, but it is also a good idea to consult it with Bert and Mert before time to figure out at an more accurate extend if it is worth the shot.

With these wholesome parts covered, we can move on to the most unusual thing that has happened to Bale Town, Tourists.

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14 people have reached Bale Town now in the midst of January in the midst of this freezing cold. They have brought along a translator, he is a Kastarian but has studied both Ignite and ill.u.s.tratian language. Their value there is big and although not specified, it could be ranging around 2,000 Gold Coins a month there with the Economy bigger.

It isn't certain if he paid the thousand Gold Coins for this trip or not, but since he is a hired translator it isn't the most uncommon if one of the Tourists paid his fee.

Now, since the numbers of Tourists that will come each month can't be specific, we won't include the 14,000 Gold Coins earned from this trip only in the overall profit, but we will include it in the Budget build up only.

The Budget before it was 582,000 Gold Coins, now that the Tourists have handed their fees at a handsome amount, the piled up Budget arose to 596,000 Gold Coins. Yes, that's the best way to make this description as simple as possible. This amount still maintains Bale Town as the superior total Budget-wise.

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Bill will be their guide today, he is the most acknowledged based on overall statistics he jotted down since we can fairly call it his passion.

Before they started, he sorted things out with the Translator after a simple greet. They found an agreement, Bill will explain first in Ignite and the Translator will do his job after him. To make this work more pristine and less repetitive, we won't be including what the Translator says.

Entering the first section, Bill explained. "This, my friends is what we call the first section. This is where our investor and dear friend Gustav Iron has discovered this amazing extensive mine after seeing a Civilian here using Coal ironically as a Secondary heat option."

Taking a glance at the translator, Bill asked. "Did you get all that? It was a bit too long."

"I've been trained to memorize triple the amount, please feel free to elongate your descriptions as long as you like." The translator expressed, and afterwards turned to the rest of the 13 Tourists, translating for them. Bill felt impressed.

As they moved on to the Second Section, Bill took the liberty to explain. "This is the Second and most profitable section of the cave. Getting down here has been troublesome before and after we made this big staircase."

As they walked down, Bill explained a little bit about the size in this Section. "The rock flooring you see now, has been about 10 meters higher than you see it now. But due to the fact that we mined out Coal, it has sunk down. We can of course mine down even further which can possibly lead to the discovery of more ores and at the same time we can get more stone out of it but this will mess up the working pace we have achieved on the further Sections."

Seeing the translator do his job, Bill felt like he is hearing Gibberish but judging from the long sentences he is forming, Bill felt sure that this man is not bluffing about his memorisation capacities.

Seeing that he is done, and feeling satisfaction when he saw the amazed faces on the Tourists. Bill spoke, "We can move on to the third Section now. I think you will like the tower we have build to access it."