Chapter 37 - 37. Come On Everyone, Grind Those Hips Left And Right. (1/2)
”Bbuurrpp... Thank goodness for this wonderful meal. Like what you said, my fine chef, this meal sure would be a hit for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Such a simple dish meal and yet it is very fulfilling indeed. I could surely gain a few pounds just by you handling the cooking for these few days. Hah Hah Hah... ”
Prius remarked as he spread his legs under the table and slouched after having a heavy dinner. ”You sure looked like you need an exercise regularly, Prius. You are getting rounded already. Hah hah hah... Girls may shun you if you're having a potbelly. But others might regard this roundness as a wealthy person. Hah hah hah.” I remarked at Prius because I had not seen doing much action besides eating and lazing around in the Great Hall.
”Would you like to see the abandoned house behind our Great Hall? The house costs nothing and the paperwork is free.” Prius said as he finally stood up and unbutton his pants and loosed his belt a bit. ”You sure looks like you need a walk once in a while. Alright, let's go ahead and see the house you mentioned.” I said as I picked myself up from the dining chair and heads toward the door.
”You coming along with us, Trish?” I beckoned towards Patricia and she immediately followed us and left the dirty dishes to be cleared later. We went out and walked just a short distance and I saw a mark 'Abandoned House' on the minimap. The house looked OK on the outside and I guess a paint job was all it needs to make the house livelier.
The windows were in good condition and none was broken. It could need a good scrubbing, though. The wooden door opens up with a creak and inside were homes to pigeons roosting as well a few rats that had made a house within the wooden cabinets.
”Hmm, once these are cleared and the holes on the rafters had been fixed, I don't think any pigeons would come roosting in here. This furniture would need to be disposed of and the whole place needs to have a thorough washdown. These walls could be knocked down to make one big room for me and the storage. It seems decent enough. Are you sure this house is free, Prius?”
”Yes, it's truly and absolutely free with no charge of a single credit even. What are you intending to turn this house to? Accommodation or something else?” explained Prius since he saw my interest builds up at the size of this house.
”I'm going to turn this into a workshop. Do I need to have a permit to run a business here?” I asked since I do not have the faintest idea of running a business here in this town at all.
”Oh, you need to pay a small fee to register a business, the type of business, the location, the number of employees, their estimated salary, your projected sales per year and also their health insurance and other benefits such as working hours, meal breaks and lastly their annual leave,” Prius replied as he tried to recall the requirements to register a business here with the Town Council which is also through the Great Hall.
”How much is the process to register such business, at least I could set aside some credits for the administrative charges.”
”Oh, it is not much. Registration of business would be 25 credits but the taxes at the end of the year would amount to 10% but based on the number of employees and their wages, it might be reduced to 7% or less.”
”These taxes were being used to pay the patrol guard's wages to take care of the town's business so that no one would try to extort protection money which some hoodlums used to do it in the past 50 years ago.”
”Hah Hah Hah... In subtler terms, its still protection money but is being made transparent to the locale owners and ran by the government. Hah Hah Hah... Cute. Very practical for the government to step in this way in the transparency of where these monies would go, eh?”
Prius was surprised at how sharp my mind was to perceive such information within a short period of time. What else would these so-called taxes be termed and being used? 10% based on a 100k credits would amount to 10k per locale and if there are 20 locales then the government had float cash of 200k credits yearly.
This is only for one district and if there are 3 districts then the government makes 600k just by sitting on their fat asses all year round. Hmmph... Earning something out of nothing. Robin Hood on series 7 on Inkitt should offload these monies from these 'grobbers'.
We returned to the house and I changed back to my battle gear and gets ready for another round of grinding. I excused myself as I head out the door and towards the northern gate. As soon as I reached there, I've decided to go for an estimated 80 rounds as one round would take less than 3 minutes to wipe out 8 goblins.
Since I had pushed most of my points into STR, I decided to go against them using just a dagger alone. And after I had pushed all the 593 points onto that attribute, I had gained almost 700 points on damage rating alone. I decided to kite all of them at once and hack and slash them in one go.
After I had warped to that place, I ran all the way inside their hideout, pushing the 3 grunts along the way and had the 8 of them encircling me. With 11k armour, their spears and swords dealt almost 0 damage on me as I stabbed merrily and picked their spoils. It was over in less than a minute and I kept at it until I had completed 80 repetitions.
The sky had cast red over the horizons where I stopped and sat down on a tree trunk and I opened up my interface and looked at the new standings. I had gained +6400% experience Points and had jumped 64 levels during that onslaught. I had gained 640 planked shields and also 6400 credits from the spoils.