Chapter 152 Shady business. (2/2)

While he could still earn his keep as a silver grade adventurer, he had already put other things in ned and the construction of his new store building was not going to be cheap

Without ole aical robot that heIt could only oleram in more actions

If he relied only on his adventurer incoeon This would force him to lower his time as a runesmith It would be hard to compete with the other craftsh stock

‘Should I really trust that baldy?’

He looked down onto a piece of paper It was another one of those letters, he was given it by the guild etting in contact with some ‘friends’ that would help him out with his material problem

For now, he decided to place this letter in his spatial bag for safekeeping Soon he would need tolow on funds On the next day, he was to go back to the guild and take his earnings from this month This would be the end of his relationshi+p with the guild stores, at least the open one

If he took the guild master’s advice and if it worked out well, he would be soave him any more credit he would need to find out if his claiive him some advice, he was the person that alent to the market, maybe he could point out someone that could ith theive his only worker the bad news Bernir didn’t react in kind to the way the union was treating the ostracised fro only half-dwarf

“dao over to theh their s boss! I know a good spot, they won’t knohat hit them!”

“Calm down Bernir, if we do that we’ll just end up in prison…”

While he wished to do nothing more than lob a few runic boo under in a day If he wasn’t caught by the guards at the shops he would probably be quickly given a wanted poster There were too many ways to apprehend people in this world and he was not the stealthy type

“But e do? If we can’t buy any craftingto et around this would be to est problem with that option was that he would need to build hiain Even then it could not pan out without signing off with a bigger company for support The union could easily ban theo back to square one

“First calo to town tomorrow and see how bad it really is You have some people that you know, I need you to ask around if there would be anyto supply us with materials like deep steel”

Roland decided to try working out an agreement with some merchants On the dawn of the other day, he and Bernir parted ways as they began their search for a business partner Just as he had suspected though, no one illing to hear the and how he should have been actively participating in it Roland went out of his way to avoid interaction with other people due to his trust issues If he actually showed hiht have not been in this predicament

“Hoas it on your end?”

Roland asked Bernir, who just shook his head

“Those bastards work fast, every merchant that saw me averted their eyes It’s clear that they have all been paid off or are too afraid to offend the union”

While Roland could probably do business with theinvolved, the union held a chokehold on the entire kingdom when his craft was involved With most of theto go out of their way to go against theive up on the first day Roland and Bernir continued going through the city, though the half-dwarf did most of the work as his boss quickly found out that he didn’t really know anyone in the city The only people that he really talked to were the adventurers and the guild already showed that they wouldn’t be working with hiuild master had told hi-winded explanation of why he was not allowed to sell anything there He was considering trying to hide his face and sneaking in to sell sooing around The people from the auction house could force him to reveal his face or use some identification He was sure that the dwarves made sure to increase the exa fro the stores that he used to ith One of theh the wo out for herself

“I’ personal but unless you can give me a better deal I’m stuck here”

Not like he didn’t understand where she was co from It was either to ith the dwarves that had all thehim out with no real incentive to be had

“But if you ever need soer They only told us not to sell your wares, they never said we can’t trade in other services If it’s anything besides a runic iteave hi hi in their stores that gave his involvement away He could still hand in other iteive Bernir an outlet to place his armors in

This wouldn’t fix the issue that he was battling now Regular armors and weapons didn’t sell for that much They were mostly used by low-level adventurers, the real ear

After a few days of not reallyof runic swords and daggers They had already been delivered for runecrafting and due to hi the order he was unable to return it The guild informed him that due to the deal with the dwarves they would not be able to sell them

With that, his only real revenue strea runic equipment He was still the only runesmith in town and could handle the orders at his houild nor the union could stop the adventurers froh he could take a lot of money for the repairs this wouldn’t fix the proble were already rare and not like they broke down every month and needed constant repairs

Roland stayed up late the night and while going through soht his eye If he did nothing about this predicament he worried that he would be run out of town He invested far too much time into his home and now store to just roll over and take it froht have been able to survive in the short ters over their own runes services, n to undermine his future runic creations

This was a critical old rush More andIf he didn’t follow the trend he would renant Noas the tiht as well sign a contract with the dwarven union and be done with it

‘The black lanced at the letter and knehat it entailed While he was apprehensive to ith the people that would be the first ones to rob him blind, he knew that they would not hold the union in ards They were profiters first that didn’t really align the

On the other hand, it was a good chance to see how the criminal underbelly in this world looked like He already knew that most successful people so the him in the behind later on in his life