Chapter 150 Pesky dwarves. (1/2)
“Say, whit did thay fin' out?”
“Not it too close as thay ‘ave so th' house”
A couple of dwarves were talking to each other while gru them if thay can’t do thair jab?”
One of the dwarves spoke up as he was unhappy about the lack of infor on their competition and even hired one of the town’s known ruffians to keep an eye out on the house that was outside the city
“Thay did fin' oot soht up soe lump o’metal?”
“Aye, 'twas supposedly oleue from what their informant described, they caolem This infornized that they weren’t dealing with a simple Runes hi his real identity, ah juist will not believe that soolem”
The dwarves here nodded with their heads In their eyes, thehimself Wayland was a true e at best while in other aspects they overshadowed old estthis Without the proper guidance and knowledge, it was extre coole so behind a young man’s face It wasn’t unheard of people to use illusion spells to alter their appearance They were up against a crafty runes
“Aye, hetae mak' a name fur himself 'ere”
The dwarves came to the conclusion that theto root hie about runes to undermine the Dwarven Union's monopoly on runecrafted iteo aboot getting rid of ‘im? Should we try to eo for that efter a' that we had done”
The dwarves froathered in this toere sent here on a mission First, they needed to see if it hile to invest in the city Albrook passed that initial test and they sent over more people to establish their own smithies and shops meant mostly for the adventurers
Most of the union's ard They were just a branch with very few blacks masters that were not even tier 3 craftsmen
The two most established were Bamur the Enchantsmith and Dunan that was both an Armorsmith and Weaponsmith While the tere not tier 3 class holders they were the closest ones to achieving them
It was a planned h in this city and entrench the union’s grasp on it With hoas looking now, they were faltering as the human Runesmith’s runic wares were more popular than the enchanted ones
“Aye, too late for dat no goes the business though, what off the other artisans?”
Dunan asked while scoffing at one of the other dwarves that earing glasses and seemed a bit more refined than the other crafts as planned, we hae been successfully undercutting thair profits Even th' guild can’t coal”
While the runic weapons and trinkets were selling rather well this wasn’t for all the other wares The dwarf-run stores could lower their prices to an extreme and just price the competition out
This was quite the basic approach which they iet a footing in They just lowered the prices to a point until their competition could not sustain then contracts with their union to profit even more
It didn’t seem like this approach would ith the person called Wayland though His wares were actually selling and they couldn’t cut off his resources either as he was getting theuild
The union and the adventurer guild were somewhat in a turbulent relationshi+p Both of them so other avenues to earn coins frouild could get soeons and other artisans The two behe their own business et under the skin of the current guildpart of the adventurer brand Thus the dwarves here didn’t really feel like they would be getting that much backlash if they ran the settled they were convinced that the people above them would strike a deal that benefited both sides What they were responsible for noas hoell this deal would be in their favor If they took over uild would be forced to do business with theo forith their business oes as planned on’t need tae do a ting…”
The dwarves nodded at each other as the decision wasof the last words could soon be seen a few days later at the adventurer’s guild quarters
“What is it now Elodia?”
“It’s the shop owners, they wish to talk to you…”
“Talk to uildover some papers in his office while Elodia tried to inform him about an unruly mob of people
“I don’t think they will listen to reason this tiood? Is it the blasted dwarves?”
Elodia nodded but as she tried to go into some more detail she heard a loud knock on the door
“Aurdhan, I know that you are in there, get your ass out here, you have a lot of explaining to do!”
A maddened voice of a woman was heard by both the people inside this office It was followed up by so on the door
“shi+t, this is ave out a sigh but then nodded to Elodia who then unlocked the door The moment she did about ten people entered the room It was clear that these people were craftsuild All of them pushed themselves inside and at the front was a peculiar beast woman with cow-like horns
“There you are, explain yourself!”
“Dyana? What’s gotten into you…”
Arduhan looked at theat the same tiured out as going on Due to the dwarven union’s stranglehold on the city, these people were being shunned
“Please, everyone caluild master will hear you out”
Elodia interrupted froryis selling, the adventurers just take one peek at the prices before leaving!”
“Yeah! How are we to contend with halved prices, I’ve even seen the prices further than that!”
It was clear that these artisans were not able tonow Their products weren’t bad but they just could not compete with discounted wares of the dwarves