Chapter 96: Path Of Kings (II): A Meeting

This meeting was called a bit earlier than was scheduled, but that was understandable as Rezar would have to take a break from the public eye for a few days to train and prepare for his and Priest's journey south. But even so there has been quite a few changes and improvements in the territory as of late, and Rezar needed to address those, and think about the next steps they have to take.

"Alistair you seem to have been very busy these last few days, would you like to tell me how far you've gone and what you've achieved?"

Rezar asked as he stood over the fire place of his humble abode, the house of a village elder was small, but it was more than enough to hold a meeting with these small amount of people. Besides it was the only secure place in the territory, unless you count the tunnels and caves that have been mined by the moles.

"Yes sir, well the construction projects are going well, I've been able to interface with the system to properly design the way the cobblestone streets would be place with a little help from Oran; an architect that's actually from origin city and is quite advance with her architecture and civil engineering class. I get the feeling she's running from something or someone and has chosen to join our territory because of how out of the way it is.

Either way, she's put herself wholly into her job and I have to say she is quite talented. With her help, a plan for the city has been drawn up, and if we keep on growing and advancing at our current rate, we should be able to have infrastructure comparable to a peak civilization in one and a half to two years. I would present the plans to you, but it's still undergoing revisions and tweaks, I will however get you a basic prototype and presentation before you leave for your diplomatic Journey with the Priest.

Next would be out farmer Ramon, he's young, simple and his class is fairly low leveled. But he's a Faun, and his race is mostly inclined to catering for nature in retrospect to their cousins the Satyrs that were more mischievous than most. He has 10 classes, all of them catered to different branches of farming, from the basic planting and harvesting, to animal husbandry, herborogy, orchard farmer, alchemy, and druid amongst many others.

He was born in a city, and for miles on end in the place where he's had to grow up, there's been nothing green for him to grow or have access to. So he moves here to frontier, hoping to put his skill and passion to good use. With his help and your approval, we're hoping to turn the north eastern part of the territory into an expansive farmland, and even create basements for it to handle farming under the surface.

Next would be the irrigation system, but it has turned into a plumbing system, there is an underground river, with most of its branching tributaries flowing through the rocks, the moles have dug into a couple of its springs, and the river itself seems to empty out into the sea.

I've begun to draft up a blueprint for a reservoir and a plumbing system within the walls of the cove itself to coincide well with the plans for the future city. By the time the villages upgrade to a town, we would all have access to indoor plumbing and a stable source of clean drinking water.

Though with the money you gave, I'm afraid it wouldn't be enough to fully carry out the advancement of the village. While we have resources and an overabundance of it, we need money to get most of our blueprints patented by the system, or we will have to build everything by hand, which would take longer and would have room for mistakes that may or may not have far reaching consequences.

But I'm just a craftsman with a few ideas about farming, I have no idea what we should do in order to raise money for the village. We could go to a dungeon, but that would cost more so I'm at a loss. The village won't grow on resources and well wishes alone, we need coin, and a lot of it. And even in our resources there are some things we don't have, and selling the things we have here through the system would be a loss as the price it sets is too much and we would gain little."

Rezar shook his head in annoyance at that, Alistair was right, they needed money, and honestly speaking he was all out of cash as all he had on him was just about a thousand gold elys and some silver. He turned to Priest, but Priest used his head to point in Gynaika's direction, Prompting a raised eyebrow from Rezar.

"We can solve the money problem easily, there are merchants to the south by the coastline, while we're sure they'll come after us eventually due to greed, I believe we can make contact first and initiate a trade with them. let them know what we have to offer, sure it would make them even more greedy, and they'll come after us, but we can at least get the money we need to take care of pressing concerns.

Since Priest and King Rezar are heading to the merchants for a diplomatic engagement, you guys can travel with a caravan of ores and precious stones. Enough to net you a couple of platinum elys before you return. And while you're there, trying getting blueprints for a pier, ships and a boat yard where we can build our own vessels with ease. I believe Alistair would be able to tweak those blueprints a little to get something that is more our style.

But the bottom line is, those merchants are the only ones we can trade with at the moment, and with the moles still mining and breeding, we would have enough ores and stones to last us many lifetimes. After all, the veins of ores and precious crystals regenerate over time, and this area is rich in it. If you can make a perfect deal with them, then you'll have access to trade, and be able to trade your goods to the wider world of Elysium and get the money you need to sustain the territory."

Rezar rubbed a hand under his jaw in contemplation and the slammed a fist into an open palm, startling everyone in the room before he turned to Gynaika.

"Good idea! Great, you're coming with us, now what's next on the agenda?" he said, ignoring the looks of surprise before turning to Lenore who had something to say but have been patient all these while. Safe to say, Gynaika was still shocked by his decision.