abnabooks Chapter 733 Cleaning Up - Part 1
Chapter 733 Cleaning Up - Part 1
"He keeps the excess? A greedy man, my Lord... If he wished to assist you, surely he ought to have been a little less gold-eyed about it?" Verdant said disapprovingly.
"No. As with you, it makes sense. I do not need men to throw away their lives for me. If our businesses can be mutually beneficial, then they should be. Even if Greeves were to get two hundred golds off them, as long as he raises my initial number from sixty to a hundred, I would not begrudge him the extra," Oliver said.
"It seems to me though, that I need to double that number... Two hundred golds a week, and I should be able to comfortably pay the wages of a hundred men on the outside, and twenty men on the inside, whilst still having an amount left over should any difficulties occur."
"These are certainly larger numbers that you're proposing," Verdant mused. "I am impressed. Just a month or two ago, you were bemoaning your lack of coin, and now I would wager that your weekly income – on profit purely generated yourself – is like within the top number of the Academy."
"It'll have to go even larger, though," Oliver said. "But how..? Monster slaying seems to be reaching a deadlock. The number of monsters we can comfortably slay without culling their number completely is already as pushed as we can get it.
There was talk with Greeves about potentially travelling somewhere, and slaying overrun monster populations, but given the distance we'd be travelling for that, and the inconsistencies in the quality of the monsters we'd be slaying, it doesn't seem as strong an idea as we would like it to be."
"It still rings of promise, my Lord," Verdant said. "Perhaps something for a future occasion? On that same note, would you like me to inform Nebular of the changes to your agreement? I'm sure he'd want to know, given how invested he was in improving his own distribution procedures."
"No... I'm going to have to speak to him myself," Oliver said. "Since I've likely inconvenienced him, it's the least I can do."
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"Ah, then, you might not find my news to be too distasteful," Oliver said.
"News?" Nebular repeated, narrowing his eyes suspiciously. "Are you proposing changes to our arrangement, Ser Patrick? I thought we'd agreed that the split of coin is fair, no..?"
"It is," Oliver said. "Relax. I don't intend to decrease your share so suddenly, not after we've already agreed on the matters that currently stand. However, I've been in touch with an old associate of mine, experienced in distribution outside of the Academy. He supposes that he could sell what we're attempting to far quicker than we likely could."
"Quicker?" Nebular said, latching onto that word. "How quick?"
"Quick enough that we'd be getting the weekly pay that we initially decided upon," Oliver said, though he didn't mention anything about how they'd also likely be selling for more. He felt a little bad omitting that part, but given that Nebular's share included the task of distributing the goods, he imagined the alchemist would simply be happy to keep what he had, whilst doing less work.
"That's a little troubling, Ser Patrick," Nebular said slowly. "I'd been quite invested in this distribution business... It would seem that my efforts are wasted. So too would my leverage over my share of the coin be put in trouble, given that you don't need me to distribute..."
"Your share will stay the same, at least for the next few months," Oliver assured him. "These are changes on my end, so I would not allow them to inconvenience you, when we've already struck a deal."