Chapter 25 - Opening of the training hall (1/2)
Gizzere then makes me registered as part of the merchant in the merchant guild, for few reasons, first because of the fact that I'm charging those who visited the training hall, as well as taking small percentage of their loot sales, so that were considered enough to brand me as merchant. Second, to make my life (as well as the merchant guild life) easier when collecting the loot percentage, this way, each transaction can be handled and recorded properly. Lastly, merchant in this world use the merchant guild to store their money, basically treating the merchant guild similar to that of a bank, so if anything happens to me in the future, the orphanage will still have proper funding. As for the merchant name/company name, I'm to lazy to think so I just put it as Ash, even using the same logo.
As for the marketing part, I just hope Ram, Alice as well as the adventure that comes to test the training hall will spread the word, hoping the power of mouth-to-mouth marketing will work since my primary target is the adventure.
As for the maintenance cost, well there aren't that much maintenance to be made, since Housey can just repair everything to near perfection, so even if no one came, it wouldn't put too much of a burden on me, plus those kids can still use it for their training.
Next day
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”So many people!” [Ash]
”Brother Ash, what should we do?” [Rean]
”Well...” [Ash]
Just why? While I am happy that the training hall receive much attention, it's sincerely congested in here, so I make Rean and Elise tend the counter while I makes sure that the adventure make a straight line (and since they all know about my strength, let just said none of them make any unnecessary ruckus). Claude then guides them about the facilities in the training hall and told them about the rules and regulations of the training hall.
”Break them and the behemoth slayer will break you!” [Claude]
And with that, the hectic morning went on until dust, where the line gradually getting shorter until it's 830pm, when both Ram and Gizzere visit us
”Ash, we need to talk” [Ram]
”I can guess what you want to say...” [Ash]
Claude prepare us some tea and cake, while those kids have their dinner first
”None of the adventures are taking any requests today!” [Ram]
”Yup, as expected, I mean I can see sea of adventure from morning till just now” [Ash]
”Well, they are profiting a lot just by grinding the loot from the zombies, and as such which idiot will take the risk to explore the dungeon when stack of gold are easily available here” [Gizzere]
”Yeah, plus they also have to wait for long queue, so most of their time are wasted here instead of taking on a request” [Ash]
”Well sweetie, you have any idea how to tackle this?” [Ram]