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[Main Pov]
I walk until I reach the door of my Palace, a grandiose structure, with beautiful gold ornaments, it really impresses me the way gold is spent at that time, and seeing this basic characteristic, I squandered a part of my gold, like everyone else, but obviously I also kept a part.
And when I speak of a part, I mean an amount that would reach values that today would be close to billions of dollars. After thinking about it for a while, I pass through the big door of my castle, and walk towards the pier, I would rather walk around the city than use the existing means of transport such as carts and other means, and as I am a hybrid , I could very well walk many, many kilometers without even getting close to getting tired, and that's not even the reason I prefer to walk, in fact I prefer that because I can see the people who idolize me.
I know this is a silly attitude, but the feeling of being idolized is really intoxicating. I snap out of my thoughts when I realize I'm getting close to the docks, docks I built, there used to be no docks here in Thebes, in fact they didn't exist anywhere on the Egyptian coast, and probably didn't exist anywhere in the world.
And this is something that makes a lot of sense, the first maritime advances came to appear only here in ancient Egypt. A few years later they would start creating the first boats, which would later be used for commercial exchange, territorial conquests and even naval battles.
And it was because of the arrival of this maritime evolution, that I was forced to create my own vessels, the faster I can develop the maritime means, the faster my plan goes into action, and also I wanted to help it develop, because I wanted to get my essential items faster, I also intend to create mining posts on other continents and islands, which in this case it is necessary to use vessels for these purposes, besides that I want to create a tourism system through my vessels, with the objects transported by the merchant vessels.
In short this is my strategy for making money in seniority, a strategy that I will change for sure in the coming years, I want to use the most profitable means, in the periods when they would represent their greatest profit.
My future business pretensions vary greatly, I want to change my business focus based on the time I have, food markets, health care, pharmaceuticals, extractives, transportation and even participating in the creation of the damn banks, I want my influence to be in all possible profitable branches.
My future business pretensions vary greatly, I want to change my business focus based on the time I have, food markets, health care, pharmaceuticals, extractives, transportation and even participating in the creation of the damn banks, I want my influence to be in all possible profitable branches.
Obviously there is no way I can manage so many businesses alone, so I intend to create another sector in my coven. In this case the finance sector, where I only want the most skilled, competent and above all loyal businessmen, so my coven would be divided into three subsections.
The part focused on fighting and defense, where my soldiers trained since childhood will be, we will have the research and knowledge sector, which is where I intend to gather the greatest minds that ever existed on earth, and the last one, the business sector, where I will have the leaders of my companies around the world.
When I arrive at the pier, I see several men working, after seeing me, the men bow in my direction, I approach slowly in their directionm. A man seeing me walks towards me, he was wearing better quality clothes than the other working men, from this you can tell that he was the leader of the group. Arriving in front of me, the man looks at me and speaks.
"My lord, how can I help you?" The man says this to me as he again bows toward me. After listening to his sentence, I speak to him.
"Abraam, I just came here to see how the project is going, I hope you have good news" He listens to me and nods as again he speaks.
"My lord, I have amazing news for your her majesty, your ship is almost ready, we just need to make a few last changes, but hopefully by the end of the day it will all be ready, so you can test first hand, the work of your her majesty genius plans"
I listen to him carefully, and am happy, after months my project is completely finished, this fills me with happiness. As I had no other issues to resolve in my day, besides this one I spent the rest of the day helping with the last details.
I helped with the inspection of the little things on the boat and this took all day, by the end of the day it was finally ready. I look at the boat that was ready in front of me with a proud smile on my face.
The ship was a Greek trireme, a ship that would only appear some 500 years from now, a perfect ship for sea combat and cargo transport, I remember this ship very well, because it was the ship used by the soldiers of King Xerxes I.
But unfortunately this is not a good boat for the great navigations, it is completely impossible to travel to the Americas using this boat, I still intend to create boats that can do this, but these will be a complete secret, which only my most loyal men will know of their existence.
I really don't intend to rush the great navigations by more than 1200 years, that would be of no benefit to me, I hear a noise next to me that brings me out of my thoughts.
"My lord, do you wish to use it a little to test it?" The man who asked me this question was Abraam. After listening to him, I speak to him.
"Absolutely" I said this with a smile on my face and very excited, my first experience at sea might have sucked, but I'm sure this second time will go much better.
After some preparations, we were all ready to enter the boat, Agent 3 had been following behind me all this time, when we finally entered the boat.
Inside there were already several people, many workers could be seen, on both sides of the boat, they were in charge of rowing the boat, even though the trireme had sail technology, it also had many oars, in fact a good part of the force exerted to make it move is by means of oars.
Inside the boat I go straight towards the bow of the boat, when I finally get to the bow of the boat, I give a signal to Abraam. And he starts shouting.
"ATTENTION, ALL READY?"
I have taught him the tactics and terms used in rowing, this makes his job and commands a little easier. Soon he starts screaming again.
"NUMBER 1, READY?" As he finishes his question a group of people answer, "READY".
"NUMBER 2, READY?" Again another group of people respond. Saying "READY
And so it goes until group 5. Abraam then shouts again.
"PUT THE PADDLES IN THE WATER" and with that, all 40+ men put the paddles in the water, all synchronized and well trained, a beautiful sight to behold, it seems they have been training even before the boat was ready. Soon after, Abraam gave the signal I was most looking forward to.
"ATTENTION! GET OUT!" With that command everyone started rowing together and at the same time, and we then started to pick up speed, Abraam kept giving little commands, but all in all we were doing well.
This time my path and journey was much more pleasant than my last sea journey, which was very traumatic indeed.
After about 5 minutes at the same speed, Abraam gave another important command while shouting.
"INCREASE THE PRESSURE". I could see them putting more force into the paddling, and the boat was going much faster, I could feel the wind in my hair, and this made me happy in many ways.
It was a beautiful day indeed, now we just have to start mass manufacturing, and then I can increase my fortune even more. But I will probably use this prototype while I am without other achievements at the moment, I will use it to finally return to Greece after many years away from home and my family.
I was away for so long, I didn't even see Sulpicia and Didyme being transformed, I wanted to be there, to witness this great day.
I spent some time thinking about this and admiring the sea while feeling the wind on my face, and I stayed like this during my whole trip until we returned by the coast after only a few minutes because it was starting to get dark.
To be continued.