Chapter 5 - Making Money (1/2)
”Details? Well, there will be three total steps.” Iris replied. ”First of all, you will completely discard the identity of the 'Dark Creator'. If the 'Dark Creator' is dead, the assassin team will have no choice but to give up on their hunt. It will also stop other unwanted troubles from approaching you. Of course, just spreading word of your death won't do, we will have to stage it to be more realistic. All of that you can leave to me. Besides, it won't be in the near future anyway.”
Rivas felt a slight chill hearing her continuously talk about his death.
”Second step, you will completely change your previous way of designing swords. Once the identity as the 'Dark Creator' is discarded, you will not be able to continue making swords the same way as you did before. In fact, you should make a total 180 degree turn from your previous style, lest you raise suspicions. Will you be able to accomplish that?”
Rivas frowned a little and thought for some time before ultimately nodding his head. He had great confidence in his skill of swords-making, and Iris knew that. Besides, every design was his own creative idea, and making something new wouldn't be too hard for him.
”Good” Iris nodded in appraisal.
”The last step is the marketing. After much analysis on your previous way of doing things, I have detected quite a few flaws. Though your swords were in high demand, the fact that you would not be the one directly selling them has had quite an impact on your profit. You would always sell the swords to the big marketplace, which in turn would sell them at almost twice the price they paid you, inflicting loss of profit.” She said, trying to put it as simply as she can.
This gave some shock to Rivas. But after thinking a little, he realized that the swords he would sell would indeed be sold off for more money after him. He never paid it much attention...
What a waste of good money!
”So to solve that problem, we will start our own marketplace. No, we will start our own auction house. Each and every single one of your swords will be auctioned off at an great price, but instead of the marketplace, the entire profit would come to us.”
If they had their own Auction House, not only could they get a great amount from selling their very own swords, they could also host other products. Of course it won't be one sword at a time, but a line of them, like 10 or 20, sold off at once. However, there would naturally still be a set price to begin from, and that won't be too low either. Iris had already planned to extort every last penny they could get from these swords.
”The profit distribution will be 50-50. As for the money for the raw materials and auction house, we will use your money, the one you earned from selling swords all these years. I assume you have more than enough wealth for this work.” Since she had not a single penny at the moment.
Rivas suddenly felt extremely wronged.
This money was earned from his blood sweat and tears ah!
Wasn't this blatant extortion?!
Iris easily saw through his thoughts.
”In return for this investment that you are making, I will completely wipe clean the entire assassination group from the face of this planet. This will also serve as a revenge for all those subordinates of yours that they killed.” And the family of yours that they killed in my past life.