103 Chapter 103 - Conscripting Soldiers (1/2)

Gren woke up feeling refreshed now that he was able to sleep back at home and checking the system allowed him to see that Circuitry had finished being researched.Just to be safe, Gren brought out his Model 3 and accompanying holster since he would need to research Metals One with Copper in it if he wanted circuitry to be useful.Getting started on that before eating breakfast and playing with the kids in the morning would help to run down the hour and fifteen minutes needed for the research.Picking out the candidates for the weapons would end up using up the rest of the time so he didn't see any problems this time.

Unlike the previous night, Gren woke up when the sun was just rising.Clarissa wasn't interested in being taken outside when it was bright so Gren decided to juggle balls of water made from his magic.Unfortunately, she didn't seem that interested in his juggling like the other kids were.Letting her poke the balls of water seemed to entertain her more than the juggling.His goblin kids were still in the process of being breastfed by Estella and Jessica so they didn't get a chance to see him using magic before breakfast.

Gren's morning routine of playing with the kids almost made him forget about what he had to do but the gun in his holster helped to remind him.Gren had two people in mind already but they were decided on long ago; Tahloh and Jessica wouldn't be enough to defend the guild if something happened.There weren't many people in the guild that he knew that he could trust so picking the other members would be tough.Estella and Jasmine were out of the picture for now; Gren wanted the first group to have identical weapons to make it easy to teach them so Jasmine wouldn't be a part of it and Estella was too busy with the kids.

There were guild members that wanted to be mercenaries but lacked the skill so they would be his first choice.The only problem is that he didn't know who wanted to be a mercenary.There was Letta but she was still paralyzed; once he was able to heal her or had a vehicle to transport her safely to the North to visit a healer then he'd arm her with a gun.

Jessica was in a similar situation as Gren; she wasn't that close to the inactive guild members.There was only one person that Gren knew of that communicated with everybody so he headed downstairs.Every morning there were people that stretched in the lower court and Gren could see her fuzzy round tail sticking up as she bended over.As she stood back up, her floppy ears returned to the side of her head.”Excuse me, Judy, do you have a moment to talk?”

Judy twisted the top half of her body towards Gren and spoke up, ”Yeah.There are a few things that I wanted to talk to you about so this is perfect.”After a a quick stretch, Judy left the lineup of women.”Shall we go upstairs?”Gren followed her up to the dining room where his family always ate their meals and the two of them sat down.”So, it's a bit early but there are some more complaints that the women have.Some of which are the same as before since they haven't been addressed yet.”

”Ah, sure.Let's get those out of the way first.Maybe what I want to talk to you about will solve some of their complaints.”It was pretty difficult to solve all of their problems but Gren was trying his best.”Please, go ahead.”

”I'll start with the older problems since those should be fixed first.”Some of those complaints were annoying but Gren still wanted to fulfill them.”The aquatic women feel left out and bored; there's no way for them to go outside and, even if they could, they would quickly become dehydrated.You mentioned last time that you were thinking of a plan to help them.How is that going?”

Gren nodded before he spoke up, ”I almost have all of the parts needed to make it but it would take a minimum of two days to finish it.The problem is that getting the parts will be dangerous.They're needed for something else I want to make so you can be assured that I will get them but I still need more time.”He had the idea of creating a powered wheelchair that doubled as a tub but it needed the same research as the cars did.”I've made some progress but there is still one problem that I can't solve; they will need assistance every time they want to go upstairs or downstairs.”

”Vague as always but if you've actually made progress then that's good.”Judy had each complaint written on a different piece of paper and wrote down Gren's comments as they continued.Most of the old complaints were things that he couldn't help them with like the goblins being mischievous and the women struggling to find partners.It was the newer complaints that Gren was more interested in.”Some of the women aren't having their things get bought in the store; children's clothes and toys, as an example.Nobody comes to the store to buy those things because it is often frequented by mercenaries and they're not being advertised.Fancier clothes like the dresses made by Akumo can't even be put on display for fear that they'll be damaged by the mercenaries.”

”I'm not sure how I'd solve that problem but I'm willing to sit down and talk about it.”This seemed like an important issue; if their products didn't sell then that was a loss of income for both them and the guild.”Do they have a possible solution?”

”The problem is that nobody will buy them from here so if we had a second store then we'd be fine.As long as you can buy a store nearby then we can fix that problem on our own.”Gren didn't mind buying another store for them but there weren't enough people in the guild that knew how to calculate.That's why Inari--the fox girl--and Saty--the goat girl--were the only two clerks in the store.

”Tell them that they need to find someone that will run the business before I buy their storefront.They also need to think of a name and logo if they don't want to be associated with the guild.”As long as they put in effort then he'd help them.”I can't pick out a building unless I know how large it'll need to be but if anybody has an available building in mind then I'll check it out.”

”One more problem to deal with before we move on to what you want to talk about.It's about the knights.”Gren had heard rumors about problems involving them but no specifics.”The two that were with Candy--the succubus--have been fighting ever since they found out that she was pregnant.It's beginning to annoy the other residents; sometimes for the wrong reasons.”

Relationship drama, huh?That was always something annoying to deal with.”I'll go figure out who the father is when we're done here.If I have to, I'll send the knights back to the cathedral.”They weren't really doing anything useful if you ignored Rodge.”It'd be better if the one that wasn't the father just found someone else.Their weird relationship isn't sustainable.”