Chapter 118 - 118. Getting Hype With All The Enchanted Trinkets (1/2)
”THERE'S ANOTHER CASTLE BESIDE OURS...” the Ruler of Aermagh shouted when he heard about this as reported by his court's spies. His spies were called to report from time to time regards to the development of the City around Aermagh and it seems that there is another castle that sprouted in one of the towns in Ingmery.
”My Lord, it belongs to the Keating's. Somehow they had called it Castle of Keating-Macleod and it was an originally the House of Keating. He is the one that had brought you the elixir that contains the precious drop from the Fountain of Youth some three months ago.” explained one of the spies.
”Give me a full report on Keating's. This is interesting. The hero he brought along was vanquished by our lowest ranking member of the legion, am I right?”
”Here's the full report, my lord. The hero name is Audemars Macleod and he was heard to be in a coma and had just awakened some weeks ago. He is a low key person and had completed 4 Quests so far in Ingmery. His reputation is considered the highest in town.”
”He had established a store called Beauty World and has 2 store assistants. He also had 8 production plants with a total number of 220 workers. The production plant operates from 7 am to 3 pm and the other shift works from 245 pm to 1045 pm.”
”He has 4 cooks and a cookhouse where they prepare food for the workers in the production plants. All the raw items were fully paid in advance and he has zero bad debts till date.”
”He also had 15 advertising caravans and 15 delivery caravans and these 2 types of caravans made up of 60 employees which ply the trading routes of all 87 satellite towns around Ingmery.”
”On top of that he had helped 4 orphans managed by the matron of the orphanage and he had taken over the management of the orphanage and turned it into Keating's Day Care Centre where the production workers can drop their children off when they go to work and picks them up after that.”
”The welfare of Keating's Day Care Centre has been managed by a Silas Brown of Strongbow Tavern where Audemars Macleod had engaged him to serve 4 meals a day for the children. The centre is also managed by 3 scholars from Southern District.”
”He had helped other business to grow and survive when he realised there were going out of business, which are the ones I mentioned earlier, the Atelier, Blacksmith and Bowsmith from Central Ingmery.”
”I heard about a story where he helped the Blacksmith store to regains its stature during a bet by the Northern and Southern Blacksmith named Quentin and Romulus. Both Northern and Southern Blacksmith had lost the bet and had closed their business since.”
”Audemars Macleod is married to Patricia Keating at the Council Chamber and he is putting up at the House of Keating. Somehow he managed to procure a castle through his accumulated wealth and with the blessing of Prius, the head of the Great Hall, the new building was called Castle of Keating-Macleod. They even hang the two family colours at the front of the great doors of the castle.”
”We had discovered that he mainly stay with the children he had adopted from the orphanage and takes care of their welfare and wellbeing as well.”
”As I've mentioned your lordship, he may have the stature of a noble or even royalty, but his demeanour is like a commoner. He greets everyone he met and exchange pleasantries was never a nuisance to the public and are law-abiding.”
”Even when the rest of the Houses were accepting new members to join the House, theirs were quite dormant. The only activities were when he brings the children out to the Northern Forest to grind for wild boar meat and distribute to the Tavern and cookhouse.”
”That's my full report, my lord. I will update your lordship when I have fresh news from him. Would your lordship wants me to continue the observation?”
”Hmm...that's all? I thought he was like a rampaging warrior, ready to spill blood wherever he went... But from what I heard from you, he's just a family man. Just leave him be. I don't think he could hurt a fly even.” the Ruler of Aermagh concluded and decided there's no purpose to probe any more details that had been provided by the court's spies.
”All is good... Back to the story.” the Ruler of Aermagh waved his hands towards the author and gestured that his part is finally over and we can concentrate on the MC and all the side characters instead.
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I took out my whistle and blew to indicate that it is time to take a break. Since it was bearing lunchtime I decided to give them a pep talk. After evaluating everyone who is still in Level 1, all their base points were just at 5 across the board.
They had 4 attributes instead of 5 without an added INT. I asked them about their attributes and they realised that they have secondary traits under each attribute. Since their attributes were low at the moment, they distributed points within their secondary traits was truly abysmal.
”Alright... All of you are on the first Level so as I've learned, only the Guild Master is able to pass all of you a 100 points each. This only occurs on every level that you had upgraded. When I pass you the 100 points, I want you to distribute them evenly. Understand?”