Chapter 353 Handling Foreign Relations

Chapter 353 Handling Foreign Relations

"Ugh..."

My head still aches.

The reason? Lack of sleep. I wasn't able to get a wink of sleep since Fina, Minerva, and Hekate kept taking turns "playing" with me. Minerva and Hekate kept fainting in the middle, but Fina was something else, completely not willing to go down before me.

In the end, we stayed up all night long until the sun was peeking through the window of my room.

"Are you alright, Master?"

Ember asked, worried. Well, she knows what happened last night, so I'm positive she knows the reason.

"It's fine, just a little groggy, that's all."

Shaking away the dizziness, I focused on the papers before me. I'm positive that it was only yesterday that I skipped deskwork... Why is it like a mountain now?

By reflex, I tried to reach for the stamp in the drawer beside me but realized that today I was in a different office. I was currently inside the newly built castle's office, where I was forced to process literally thousands of documents. This chapter made its debut appearance via N0v3lB1n.

The God Tamers, led by Zeshion, rebuilt the castle immediately after the battle with Noir. Apparently, it took them about two weeks to restore it completely. Well, compared to before, it was a lot emptier, however.

"To think that nobody is inside this castle but the two of us..."

I sighed.

Most of the high-ranking nobles were killed in action when Vermeil razed everything to the ground. The ones who survived were only those who were already managing their own territories, so at the moment, nobody but me was using the castle. Literally.

"Right. I think we should form a guard unit at least. What do you think, master?"

"Well, before we can think about such matters, I need to finish up this pile first."

I sighed once more. Is there some sort of skill that would make it possible to handle documents in a blink? I hope there was...

Anyway, as I was filtering through the documents, I noticed that there were two major categories present. One was requests for the repair of public facilities, and another was compensation for those who laid their lives to protect the kingdom.

Zeshion, as if proud that I noticed what he was thinking, smiled.

"Right. With your Ember's ability, you can just—"

"Sell weapons to everyone! Weapon trade is the easiest venture to earn big bucks!"

"—create gold... What?"

"What?"

Zeshion and I stared at each other, both confused. After a while, I realized what he was thinking and laughed.

"Hahaha, no, we can't just create gold and mint more money so that we can use it. Doing that would only inflate prices and lower the value of our current money system."

"Really? But the previous kings all did that whenever they were lacking in funds."

"..."

King, oh kings... Did anybody among you study the basics of commerce? If they're like this, I wonder just how they managed to last this long without causing a crash in their economy.

"Anyway, doing that would only end up damaging the currency value. So selling weapons would be a better choice. Not only would we give power to everyone to fight against the demons, but we would also be raking in 100% revenue from it!"

I turned to Ember, seeing a confident look on her face.

I already knew that Ember had made a manufacturing line using her abilities long ago. Now, if she used her clones to produce materials and used them to create guns on par with Fatima's, then money would literally flood in!

"That's good and all, but selling it to your people, wouldn't that be... I don't know, corrupt?"

"It's fine, as I'm not only planning to sell it domestically."

I smiled, thinking about the bigger picture.

"Let's go international!"