Date 21 Mar 2321
Time 18:15
Location Sky Blossom City, Guild Association Mall, Warehouse no.234
Cindy Moss, Managing Director of Fine Gold Merchants Sky Blossom Branch had not slept in the last 24 hours.
It all began when 20 cards with perfect ratings made of 5 F-rank female armour card recipes copyrighted under Fine Gold Designs flood the market.
One has to know even the original Designers and creators of these card recipes cannot guarantee to create these cards with perfect ratings.
Yet somehow these 5 F-rank female armour card recipes each in a set of 4 cards with perfect card ratings were auctioned yesterday.
Since they were auctioned in Sky Blossom City As the acting managing director of the sky blossom branch Cindy was alerted of this anomaly.
If it was someone else who had alerted her maybe Cindy would not have personally attended to this matter but her friend Chairman of Fine Gold merchants currently visiting Sky Blossom City had shown interest in it so she could not hand it to others and had to treat this situation with utmost priority.
Being at the top of the food chain in the city it was not hard for Cindy to gather information on the cards that were auctioned. Following the money, she was able to find the creator of the cards.
Going through the information on the card creator Cindy was confused more than ever according to the info in her hand the creator of these cards was a high schooler who had just stepped into the card student realm.
Even though he was a silver grimoire holder it was so bizarre and far-fetched to think a rookie could create perfect rating cards.
No matter how implausible and unrealistic this sounds she had to share this info with the Chairman.
To her surprise the Chairman was not as shocked as she was seeing the info instead, the Chairman ordered her to recruit this rookie asap.
Cindy was overwhelmed by how impetuous the chairman was being to recruit the rookie without verifying the truth of the matter at hand.
Still, Cindy took it upon herself to complete the task of recruiting the rookie because the chairman gets what she wants.
Unable to find Wyatt at his home or school Cindy ended up crashing Susan's reunion with Debra to find Wyatt.
Cindy knew Debra from her resume applying for a security personnel job at Fine Gold merchants. Cindy was impressed by Debra's experience enough to remember her name.
Fine Gold was a multinational company making billions in turn over every year they did not lack the average card soldiers but the capable card soldiers with origin cards who would develop along with the company.
And Debra's fate ingredient along with her experience made her a Fine Gold worthy asset.
One thing led to another with Cindy ending up offering a Job to Debra right then and there, terms and conditions applied though.
Debra was offered a permanent Job at Fine Gold and she would be earning 5 times what she had earned at her previous job at Raven guild not only that earning enough merits at Fine Gold she would be able to upgrade her grimoire to Silver entirely paid by the company's resources.
Great offer, Debra would have accepted it if not for the terms and condition.
The terms and conditions stated that Debra had to get her Origin card created by Wyatt. Yes, Cindy was planning to use Debra to test Wyatt's capabilities.
No matter the origin card creation succeeded or failed Debra would still be recruited by Fine Gold with previously mentioned terms.
Debra was now in a bind, as discovering one's fate ingredient was a rare opportunity and Debra did not want to take any chances in creating her first origin card.
But Cindy's offer was too good to refuse, as an average card soldier Debra knew how hard it was to be able to upgrade to the silver grimoire.
Debra was stuck in the card soldier realm because of the bronze grimoire.
There are many perks for having a higher grade grimoire.
With the high-grade grimoire, one can use higher grade cards. Not only that cultivating active soul control also becomes easier and efficient.
Being a Card soldier Debra requires a silver grimoire to cultivate active soul control faster and more efficiently but bronze grimoire only slows down the process making it harder for Debra to achieve higher active soul control.
Worst of all with the bronze grimoire, she could not use D or C rank cards was limited to only using G, F and E- rank cards even though her active soul control was enough to use D or C rank cards.
Making her a lot weaker than a card soldier using a silver grimoire.
Seeing how much importance her friend Susan and the Managing Director Cindy gave to Wyatt and his card creating prowess, Debra decided to roll the dice and take up Cindy on her offer.
This was any once in a lifetime opportunity similar to finding a fate ingredient and it seems she could only have one. So she chose silver grimoire to achieve higher realms and higher combat prowess.
Who knows if she was lucky enough she could still have both a silver grimoire and an origin card.
…
As Susan explained I understood the whole situation and what was going on, but I did not see how this profited me.
I decided to offer my services to help create cards for others to make large and fast cash not showcase my card creation ability.
Returning to Debra and Cindy I introduced myself, "Dalton Wyatt high school senior, Susan has brought me up to the speed. Now let's talk about the budget for card creation and the cost of my service."
It did not matter if they wanted to test my abilities or something else it had nothing to do with me after all everyone is entitled to their opinion.
As long as I am getting paid enough for the service I rendered it did not matter what they thought.
Debra looked at Cindy as she was her boss now. Cindy still maintaining an expressionless face and with an arrogant tone, she said, "There is no limit to the budget for the card creation go crazy, show me what you got the company will bear all the cost as for your pay 10% of whatever you have spent for the card creation. Bear in mind that the origin card created should be worthy of our Fine Gold Company."
Hearing Cindy Susan and Debra's mind went numb in utter shock as they dumbfoundedly gawked at Cindy. As for me, I was hyped and excited as finally my imagination was not limited to a budget.
Time to get serious!
(4/10) this week.
Taskboard :
1- 100+ weekly power stones! [completed]
reward - 1 extra chapter this week (0/1)
2- 200+ weekly power stones!
reward - 2 extra chapters this week
3- 300+ weekly power stones!
rewards - 4 chapters this week
Date 21 Mar 2321
Time 18:27
Location Sky Blossom City, Guild Association Mall, Warehouse no.234
"10% is not enough after government tax I will have nothing left, 40%!"
10% sounds a lot but nothing much is left after paying 34% government taxes.
"10% and we will take care of the taxes."
With 10% I would have to spend 100 million dollars to get 10 million dollars and the problem is 10 million dollars is not enough for my plans, it could barely make up for the ingredients and copyright of 50 E-rank armour I am planning to make.
"Nope! 30% plus you guys take care of the taxes."
My experience has taught me that you do not get what you want, you only get what you negotiate. Many do not consider negotiating but negotiations mean getting the best of your opponent and knowing your worth in the market.
"20% plus we take care of taxes, this applies only if the card creation is successful. If you fail 100,000$ minimum wage for your services."
"Now you are talking. Let's sign a contract."
I was excited but not stupid what if this blondie decides to dine and dash or worse deny any verbal agreement. This deal was too good to be true for me, and I could not afford to make mistakes.
There are so many ingredients out there I want to get my hands on, obviously I will only be ordering the ingredients required for the creation of said origin card but nobody is stopping from ordering expensive stuff.
After learning golem and undead card creation I wanted to get my hands on a Soul reactor and the artificial beast will.
I did come across beast will but it was a natural remnant soul, not a man-made artificial beast will.
How did they create it? Is it like the AI in my previous life? Is it even possible to create artificial intelligence using soul energy and soul paths? Or could I use beast will to create a fully functional artificial intelligence with its own will?
The more I thought the more excited I grew, this opened endless possibilities in the field of AI and my hands were itching to try them all out.
Recovering from her shock Debra looked at Cindy and said, "Are you sure about this? What if he just beef ups the bill to fill his pockets?"
Cindy sneered and said, "Fine Gold money is not easy to take but he can try."
Susan looked at Cindy and Debra with serious eyes and hurled, "Wyatt doesn't need to steal, Debra how could you say that?"
Debra gave Susan a guilty smile, she barely knew Wyatt and just wanted to get on the good side of her new boss.
Cindy did not bother about their quibble and sent the contract to my grimoire saying, "send me the list of ingredients I will have someone bring them over."
I did not sign the contract yet, "Love the enthusiasm but we have to make few things clear before I sign the contract. I am an exclusive client of Susan I would appreciate it if you buy all the ingredients from Susan."
"No the ingredients will be provided by Fine Gold, we have wider options and our ingredients are of higher quality than the guild association mall."
Before I could argue Susan butted in saying, " Cindy is right all the good and rare ingredients in guild association mall are reserved for big families or the officials of guild association. It would be better if Fine Gold provided the ingredients."
'What are you doing Susan! Are you too good or just stupid!' Glaring at Susan I said, "Okay but you will have to pay the broker fees to Susan, if not for her contribution we would not have any deal in the first place."
"Sure, Miss Susan will be paid her fees according to Fine Gold regulations. Miss Susan our finance department will contact you."
This should be acceptable for Susan if anything more she will reject again. I respect that she doesn't want to make money off of her friends but I think she is a fool to give up on a good opportunity.
After signing the contract I share a copy with Cindy and looking at Debra I asked, "So, what is your fate ingredient? What type of origin card would you like me to create for you?"
"Um...W-wait! You agreed to create my origin card without knowing what my fate ingredient is and what type of Origin card I want." Debra shouted in shock.
"Don't sweat the small stuff lady, Susan did say it was a part of undead remains, am I right?"
Debra felt hopeless seeing my lack of professionalism and was in no state to answer me.
"Her fate ingredient is the femur bone of a skeleton centaur knight, as for the type of card... Impress me."
Hearing my conversation with Cindy, Susan felt bad for Debra and said, "How about a sword? Debra is skilled with swords."
"Nah! A bone sword will not cost much, I need to make something grander to beef up the bill… I got it, this should be possible."
Saying that I share the list of ingredients with Cindy.
[ C-rank Skeleton Centaur Knight Core, preferred with the beast will if available x 1
C-rank Ram Bull Core, preferred with the beast will if available x 1
C-rank Skeleton war horse core, preferred with the beast will if available x 1
C-rank Skeleton knight core preferred with the beast will if available x 1
C-rank Soul reactor x 1
C-rank Artificial beast will x 1
E-rank High Wood Wisp x 100
Unique-grade Core x1
C-rank Core x 1
C-rank Gemini Card x 1
D-rank Pair Share Card x 1 ]
"Is this it, report if you need anything more. Here at Fine Gold, we won't tolerate any reasons for failure."
Cindy did not seem to be fazed by the ingredients on the list, but her words told another story.
I did not know the exact total but I knew C-rank ingredients costed a small fortune. And I listed about 8 of them, each rarer than the other. The total should have crossed the 100 million dollars mark.
"I thought there are no consequences to failing."
"That's for Debra, not you. Let me remind you again Fine Gild money is not easy to take."
"Is that a threat?"
"I don't know you decide."
"Since you are my first big client I will forgive your ignorance this time."
Hearing my words Cindy sneered, she didn't seem to consider me a threat which kinda hurt my ego. I decided to let it slide as she did not know what I was capable of. I will teach her a lesson later.
Time to get serious!
(5/10) this week.
Taskboard :
1- 100+ weekly power stones! [completed]
reward - 1 extra chapter this week (0/1)
2- 200+ weekly power stones!
reward - 2 extra chapters this week
3- 300+ weekly power stones!
rewards - 4 chapters this week
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