Chapter 88 - 88. The Reds Having Their First Quest.

For the next following few days, I was spending time at home and the children went about their tasks at hand, ensuring that the supplies for all the production plants were sufficient. They themselves ordered the next batch of supplies accordingly to keep the supplies at a safe level.

Since there were no storekeepers involved, the children had counted to ensure the stacks of merchandise were according to their types and colours and they accurately took down the stock level every day before they retire from their tasks.

They went to the Keating's Day Care Centre about 10 am or so, to gather new knowledge from the scholars that were taken to perform community service in teaching the children. Since Kayla and Jane fall under the category of below 12, they had to relearn some of the basics in education.

I brought the children to Northern Forest accompanied by Patricia to hone their skills about 3 hours for each day and they had performed considerably well as we ambushed those wild boars near the Troll Caves.

The children ended up with more than 30 kills per person after we had waited for the wild boars to respawn. Each of the children picked up the wild boar hide and pork and sold off the rest that they don't need to NoOne.

The travelling merchants had also completed their advertising and promotions to the rest of the towns and had returned to give support for the delivery guys as they helped to pack the orders.

After taking a day's break, they began to move out once more from the nearest town closest to Ingmery, right to the furthest. This time, just the arrival of the caravan would be enough to send the ladies to hand over the order forms and place more orders. And so the cycle began and ends that way, week in and week out.

By every week when the orders had been sent to the farthest town, Patricia had accumulated an approximately 1.3m credits that made up about 5.2m credits per month. Only 15% were used for the operational costs such as salaries for all the employees and the purchase of raw materials.

The balance of some 4.4m credits remains. By the standards of a noble or royalty, our amount was only a fraction of what they actually have in their wealth. A million credits to us are like 100k credits to them... Boo Hoo Hoo...

During that time, I also acquired knowledge of more than 50 types of new weapons and armour and I had the chance to fuse the knowledge that I had into the databank of the Fusion Chamber. Furthermore, I had forged 8 pieces of Level 4 iron ingots and had fused them with the bronze pieces of amulets and rings.

All the new Level 4 iron amulets and rings come with 2 free sockets and had a +12 for Strength, Wisdom, Dexterity and Constituency and I ran a duplication of 9999 pieces for all the 8 pieces. In all, I earned another 80,000% progress, increased my base level to +800, my crafter level to +800 and another +8,000 for allocation points.

I handed 1000 pieces each to Bruce and told him to sell it at 80 credits since I had sold the balance 72k pieces for 40 credits each with NoOne and earned a personal wealth of 2.88m credits.

Patricia and I then helped the children to push the necessary amount of crates to the store in the marketplace and stacked them accordingly to their product types while replenishing and rearranging some of the products that were on display.

We closed the store and headed back to the Great Hall where Rebecca had just returned back with Prius, seemingly exhausted since she had given the quest to all the adventurers that had come to town, and was passing her way.

"Becky, how did the quests of yours go? Did you manage to keep track of the number of adventurers so far?"

"Oh... Yes, I did, Audemars. There's was a total of 150 quests that had been given out and all of them succeeded. Even the two hoodlums were exhausted as well since they keep respawning at the same spot and also repeating their speech over and over again for every single Adventurer."

"Wow...we have that many adventurers in town, eh? That's pretty awesome considering that we had been promoting the range of wardrobe in front of the Atelier glass front. I wonder if the Atelier had other things in mind, to replenish their stocks or not." I said and remembered that on the first day of me being Audemars, I was given a quest by Prius as well.

"Trish, could Prius give the quest to enter the 5 levels of dungeons for the children? By the way, could I accompany the children if you give them the quest?"

"As long as you are around, I would feel safe, Audemars. Just take care of them well, I am sure everyone would come out tops." Patricia finally replied as she thought of the idea of letting the children down into the dungeons.

"Sure thing, brother in law. You can enter the dungeons with one nephew or niece at a time and once you are done, you can exit the same way as you enter. Heh heh... I almost forgot that I too give out quests. But you are not allowed to participate or it would be a missed opportunity for my nephew and nieces, I hope you understand."

Prius explained and I understand what he meant. No matter what happens, the children HAVE to complete the quest by themselves." Well, since the children have two Assassin's compact crossbow with them, I don't think they would have any trouble passing through the dungeons with ease."

"The children had already shown their capabilities for this whole week and I guess its high time for them to go through a quest. By the way Becky, what is the youngest Adventurer that had gone through your quest?" I asked since Kayla was only 10 going to 11 and was surprised that thinking she might be too young to engage in a close battle.

"The youngest is 12, Audemars. Do you think Jane and Kayla were too young to perform these quests?" Rebecca asked worriedly as Kayla is too young to be engaged in killing monsters or even be a Ranger-Assassin at all.

"We shall soon see, Becky. In that case, I will gather up the children right now and Prius, you may issue the quests to them. I will follow them closely at a distance." I suggested as I put on my sigil of communications over my head that looks like a 5.11 tactical headset and pressed the PTT button.

"Red Leader to all Reds, assemble at the Great Hall with full battle gear, asap." and soon I heard their chatter through my comms as they rushed back from wherever they are right now and went back inside and changed to their battle gear. After a while, they emerged back and had slung their two Assassin's compact crossbows at their sides.

"Daddy... I mean, Red Leader... We are here at your request." Red Two Adam announced when everyone was properly equipped and were waiting for the next instruction.

"Alright, listen up. When I got started, I didn't actually go out and deal with the wild boars first but was given a quest. The quest is to vanquish all the rats from the basement which had five levels and each level has an increased difficulty."

"I will follow you, not closely but from a distance and will not participate in this quest. I merely will accompany you until you complete this quest. These Rats will retaliate and so you need to be quick on your feet and reflexes."

"No matter what happens, the moment you give up, the quest is forfeited and you could never go back in again. Is that right, Quest Master?"

"Yes, that's right. If any of you backed away or give up halfway during the quest, you are unable to perform it once more and it's considered as a failed quest. I'm not sure what is going to happen to your progress but what experience you gained is forfeited." replied Prius who now take on the role of a Quest Master just as Rebecca did.

'Alright, the Quest Master will usher in one at a time, be very careful... Remember that. Even if you are wearing Level 8 Mesh Iron Reinforced Cloth Armour, even if blades or bolts cannot penetrate it, but you might get hurt if they swipe you with their paws or tail."

"Remember this. Hit hard, hit fast, kill swiftly and silently, and then move on to the next target. Don't let any of the rats down in the basement have a chance to attack or counter-attack."

"Once you had gone through this quest, I will pass you some book to learn and at the meantime, don't let them hit you," I concluded the briefing and the children all went down on one knee and clasped their chest in a salute. I was thinking, if the youngest can do it, every kid in town would be a follower.

"I'm going to pass you 100 points and you will allocate them according to your attributes. As a Ranger-Assassin, you need to evenly distribute the 100 points into your Strength, Wisdom, Dexterity and Constitution. 25 points per attributes, have you got that?"

Soon, a 100 allocation points were distributed to each of the Reds and they immediately allocate 25 points each to their Strength, Wisdom, Dexterity and Constitution and this could be done for every level only. I saw that their base attributes were only 5 each and when they had allocated the 25, their stats were increased considerably too.