[CH399+ Continued] Dungeon Diver: Stealing A Monster's Power

Chapter 502

The door shuts and we start walking upstairs to her office.

I allow my appearance to shift back to its normal undisguised state as we do.

"Nice to see you again so soon, Bri. This is Ember. We'll be working together from now on."

Bri turns to both of us, then shakes Ember's hand, trying to get a read on him as we walk up to the top floor.

"I don't know what is more intriguing; the fact that I can't sense even a drop of power coming off you even when you're using your magic, or this mysterious new friend you've brought to see me with the same energy readings. What happened while you were away...?"

We make it up to her office and I put up a [Hush] barrier while she illuminates the room.

"Well... Quite a lot actually, but I'll keep the summary short. We defeated the leader of Sector 1 and are actively expanding to take over the Dark Continent, I surpassed level 2000, and on top of that, secured six guaranteed trade deals with down payments that I need fulfilled in the next 30 days."

I reach into my item storage and pull out the stack of papers to place it down on her desk. Next to those papers, I give a list of all the available dungeons we have access to in the canyon in Sector 2 with their loot drops labeled next to them.

Her eyes turn to the papers and she walks around her desk to sit down and sift through them while Ember and I make ourselves comfortable on the soft seating arrangements in the room.

"Well... it seems you really have managed to get a lot done... Straight to business it is like usual. We'll have to make things quick here, like I said when you arrived, I really do have an important meeting I can't miss coming up tonight."

Bri doesn't say a word after that, flipping through the pages for almost a full minute in silence, writing things down on another paper next to the order forms, then hands me back a list of all of the item drops necessary from each dungeon down to the exact quality necessary.

"We can do it. The dungeons on this list can be farmed to craft exactly what you need. If you start getting us these materials by the end of this week, 21 days will be a tight schedule but we can get it done. I'll be paying my craftsmen the normal going rate, and—"

I place 22 platinum bars, and 50 gold coins down on her desk.

"Pay your workers whatever will keep them happy and working fast. Use the rest to reinforce your security even further and hire more workers out. Another workshop with extra space for expansion here might be worthwhile. I can only imagine these orders getting larger over time."

Bri stares at the bars of precious metal on her desk and nods.

"That will be more than enough..."

She writes down more notes on papers as I think to myself.

The money I've placed on her desk is half of the down payment I received from my orders. While I could easily pay Bri 10% of this amount and she'd be able to pay her workers handsomely already, I believe investing in her business savvy mind and expansion of size and speed of production in the future will be very valuable.

I plan on using the other half of the 25% down payment from the orders to put up bids for the exact amount of resources needed back in the guild hall in Sector 2.

I'll price it out perfectly so that hunters can get paid for farming materials in the dungeons based on how high the demand for the items I need are, and it will quickly fuel more growth in the economy.

I may be able to farm everything myself using my body doubles in just a few days, but building up trust with more people in the town, and building out a system that can grow more in the future is more essential to me than pure profit and saving time at the moment.