Chapter 152 Shady business. (1/2)

A loud sound of a door getting slammed could be heard This loud thud was followed by the ru down the stairs

“Mr Wayland is everything okay?”

Elodia that was about to head over to the guild master’s office was the first to notice to whoed to She could see a ratherdown the stairs

“Ms Elodia?”

He stopped for a moment to look at her but then just as quickly decided to move past It was clear to her that he was in nois fine, you don’t need to concern yourself with ure out what this was all about, Wayland storuild She was left to wonder about the look on his face The young Runesrumpy expression devoid of a smile by default but this one was a bit uildover some papers It see it over to one of the scribes forWhile she could write up the proper papers in a legally binding way, she didn’t have the proper class to create a ical contract

“Guild master?”

“Elodia? Just come in and lock the door behind you”

She entered the office and the first thing that she noticed was a lot of torn-up papers on the floor Out of habit, she started picking up these papers to only notice that they concerned a certain runesmith

“These are…”

“Oh, that? You can burn the those anymore But that’s not why I asked you to coic”

She wanted to ask the reason why these torn-up papers were there It didn’t really takeso uild master had clearly broken his ties with him for some reason and this reason was soon revealed to her

“What would you like uild ot a response The theme would be the dwarven union and the contract would forbid their involvement with a certain runesmith It appeared that Aurdhan had bent the knee to the union and decided to cut his ties with Wayland, at least when crafting was concerned

What it all cauild The dwarves would stop using their connection to force the prices down and allow their guild-run stores to operate norical weapons and armor

“Sir… Do you really want me to fashi+on a contract like this… I think Mr Wayland has been working fine with the guild…”

“Elodia, you are a good worker but this does not concern you, just do your job and stop asking questions, were you always this chatty?”

She was quickly shut down by the burly man in front of her and had to move her head down Ever since the Armand debacle, she felt like the work environment had become tenser

Why she even asked about the reason was a bit odd This was not so she would have done before, at least not if it didn’t concern someone from her own foster family With all the information in her notebook, she returned to the floor below

There she needed to find the guild’s one down already whichthe final details of the contract for quite souild master wanted to have it by the next day, which meant that she would probably need to come in earlier than usual to continue the work These sorts of papers weren’t done in an hour and she also needed to run it through another advisor to see if she didn’t make any mistakes

‘Why do I put up with this…’

She gave out a long sigh before wandering into one of the side rooms Inside she found her co-worker buried in some papers which soon would increase

While Elodia was stuck with more overtime Roland was on his way back hoht up sos

He was sure that he would be able to sustain his home by his own volition He had convinced hiht up by the adventurers Even if the dwarven union came for hi everything

Then his worldvieas shattered as Aurdhan had mentioned that he would not be able to use the auction house This was histhe establishht him money

But apparently, the dwarves were already working on banning hi in the auctions The only realistic way to go about this would be to hire soest problem with that was trust

He would need to find a trustworthy merchant that would ith hiood nore his plea of help They were still out there to s troublesome This only left inexperienced rounds

Due to Roland’s networking skills, he had gained no real business partners The only thing that he ever did was to give his wares over to the auction house or hand Bernir theh places that were looking out for hiuild was supposed to do it but they buckled under the pressure at the first sight of the probleet souild master offered hih with it yet

‘Not like I won’t have anything to eat but I’ve already started to build the store…’