Capítulo 21: EXPANSION PT.2

(IMPORTANT NOTICE IN THE AUTHORS NOTE AT THE END OF THE CHAPTER. PLEASE READ.)

Alex now stood in the city of Midcross, it took around 8 days to travel the 200 or so kilometers to the city. It turns out that all cities have teleportation gates, allowing travel from one city to another. Towns and villages though are usually to poor to allow the creation of gates, meaning you had to travel by wagon, horseback or on foot. Considering their group consisted of Alex, Nyana, Harvir, 50 soldiers, 5 dealers, 1 alchemist, and Sabina (the female merchant) and her group. They had to take wagons, making them slower then riding horseback but still it gave him time to plan. Sabina knows many wealth businessmen and land owners, as well as some powerful local politicians. This would be his way of getting some major land, he would then build a tall stone wall on the border of his land, then he would fill the unsaid with as many greenhouses as he can. This would allow thousands of potions to be made daily, he would have plenty to start taking of the city. He and his capos followed Sabina to a meeting with one of the landowners she knows. Walking through the stone streets they soon arrived at a large two story stone building. Sabina knocked and a man wearing a butler suit answered.

{This world is weird. So many similarities but at the same time huge differences.} Alex thought while looking at the man.

"Ah Lady Sabina welcome. Lord Henrix is waiting for you and your….associates." The butler said before leading us up the second floor to a pair of large redwood doors.

After entering Alex observed the office, there is paperwork scattered on the desk unorderly. A large fat man is sitting behind the desk, one hand holding a quill and the other a glass of alcohol. Looking up the man notices them.

"Ah Sabina come in. You said you have a business opportunity for me?"

Sabina and I sit while Nyana and Harvir stood behind me. "Yes this man would like to purchase a large amount of land. When I found this out I thought of you." She told the man.

"Hmm, you look shady as hell. What's to say I sell you this land and you do something stupid and get caught? How would that make me look?"

Scoffing Alex said, "You simply sold us the land. What we do after that is none of your business. It isn't your land anymore so how would you know what happens on it? No one could fault you as long as you aren't making visits to said land."

"Ha, I like you. Very well I own much land in and outside the city. What do you want and how much land do you want?"

"Outside the city. I want around 100 acres of land. Preferably with nothing already on the land."

"That's a good bit of land. It'll cost a good bit too. However I have just the place. I can sell you a portion of the old Saloway farm. It's not being used currently, no buildings on the section I'd sell you."

Alex looked at Sabina, she subtly nodded, telling him it was a good area.

"How much?"

"For the 100 acres, 45 platinum." The man said. Alex has around 150 platinum, this would make a large dent.

"30"

"42"

"35"

"38"

"Deal" The went back and forth until settling on 38, allowing Alex to save 7 platinum.

"Come let us go look at your new land, then we will transfer the ownership." The fat bastard said happily.

They left the building and the businessman called for a carriage, soon they left the city and arrived an a large empty section of land. The butler, who came with them, jumped out and set up did some magic before setting up 4 posts, making a large rectangle.

"Everything in these 4 posts will be yours. As you can see there isn't a thing here. So you still want it?"

"Yes." Alex simply said. They soon returned to the man's office to sign the paperwork, and to pay. After that Alex, Sabina and his capos left.

"There is a builders guild in the city, they have mages who can quickly and efficiently build whatever you want. Of course it costs more to have construction done magically."

Alex would be willing to part with more platinum if it meant having the farm ready sooner.

"Show me."

They walked for a good 15 minutes before arriving at a building made of black stone, entering he say groups of people walking around and discussing projects. Sabina introduced him to a group of magical builders, he is pay them 8 platinum now and another 8 after construction is complete. They are building the wall and 2 houses, a smaller one just for him and the a mansion sized one for his men. It would allow for up to 250 people to live in it, 125 bedrooms large enough for 2 people each, 15 bathrooms, and a large kitchen/common area. This is only possible using expansion Magic, allowing for the inside of the house to be much larger then the outside. Finally they would build a large warehouse to store his products and weapons.

The wall and his house could be done by the end of the day, the barracks (as he calling it) and warehouse would take another day or two. Leaving they met up with the rest of his men, he gave each of them 1 gold to pay for a night at an inn. He and his capos went to a more high end inn, he payed 5 gold for each of them to stay a night.

Alex recently completed a quest to travel 150 kilometers out of Everwinter, this unlocked a new purchase for him. The 2 acre greenhouse, a huge upgrade, 2 acres wide and long, taking up 4 acres total. This would allow him to grow hundreds of plants in a single greenhouse. And it being 20 feet tall would allow him to make a second floor, doubling the production of each greenhouse. Luckily he ordered for the wall to be 30 feet tall, allowing it to prevent others from seeing his greenhouses. The only shit this is it costs 800 credits per greenhouse, or 2,400 gold. It is expensive but he'll be able to make at least 10x that daily from each greenhouse, considering the population of Midcross is nearing 500,000 people. For now though he has 500 of each potion stored in his inventory, his dealer would get started on finding buyers the next day.

/INVENTORY/

PLATINUM: 96

GOLD: 215

SILVER: 50

BUYER COINS: 1000

MANA POTS: 500

HEALTH POTS: 500

SPEED POTS: 500

STORE CREDITS: 3225

POTION VIALS: 10000

/MAFIA/

The Don/The Boss: Alexander Power (MC)

Underboss: N/A

Dealer Capos/Captains: Nyana, Jason

Soldier Capos/Captains: Harvir

# of Soldiers: 300

# of Dealers: 35

Growers/Alchemists: 3

Lich: 1

(AUTHORS NOTE: So after talking to some far more experienced authors, I've decided to lower my publish rate to 3 chapters weekly. Releasing one daily is a difficult undertaking for experienced authors let alone a newbie like me. I might make a Patreon if enough people want it, patrons would get 5 chapters weekly. Sorry if this causes anyone to stop reading, but I don't want to burn out super fast. Anyways how was the chapter?)