A few fays gone by and back at Alex store, since there was no customer in the mean time, he decided to check again the sales inventory tab. "Still no changes on the prices, hopefully it keeps like this for a few more days so that I can sell more items." Alex smiles then he scroll down and check on the status of the hulk potion and it's still selling like hotcake. "I guess it's time to get a store guards since I have been selling cheap supply left and right and apparently, there are already prying eyes on me." Hebsaid to himself and he can't help but sigh.
After taking his lunch, he proceeded to the townhall to hire some store guards as well as get a skillbook certificate so that, he can now legally sell skillbook in Moondrive Town. "Welcome Mr. Alex! How can we assist you?" Greeted by the receptionist "I would like to hire store guards as well as get a skill book certificate up until the Rare rank skill book. Is that possible?" Asked by Alex. He now owns 2 rare rank skill book and a few normal rank skill book, it would be such a waste not to sell them. The receptionist was shocked when she heard that Alex is getting a skillbook certificate up until the rare rank. She smiles "Certainly Mr. Alex, we will now screen some candidates to be your store guards. How many are you looking to hire?" Alex thought for a moment "It would be great if I can hire 3 or 4 person and it would be best if they are adventurer party so that there will be no conflict of interest. For the numeration, it would be 800 Silvers per week, food and lodging will be provided by me. For the duration, it would be best of they could do it for 1 or 2 months." Alex explained and the receptionist noted the details down.
"Thank you Mr. Alex, we will have this posted at the store guard board and we will contact you once we have the perfect candidate for you." Said by the receptionist and she continued "As for the certificate, it would cost you 1200 silvers. By the way Mr. Alex, would you like to open an auction room for your store since you will be getting a skill book certificate up until the Rare rank, we suggest for you to have this additional feature at your store." Alex hesitate to the receptionist offer however, thinking the pros and cons of this, he decided to agree with the receptionist. "Great choice Mr. Alex, since you chose our Moondrive Town to settle with your auction room, we can provide a discount for you." The receptionist started to calculate everything "Here's the total cost for everything Mr. Alex. 200 silvers for the store guard commission, 1,200 for the skill certificate and 4,500 silvers for the construction of yoir auction house. The total is 5,900 and as mentioned, you would be receiving a discount of 20% hence you only need to settle is 4,720 Silvers." Explained by the receptionist. Alex nodded and paid the balance. "Thank you Mr. Alex, here's the certificate as well as the auction house certificate so that you can organize an auction at your auction house legally. You only need to let the townhall know on advance amd we will take care the advertisement of it as well." Alex grinned "That works well! Thank you Ms. Receptionist. By the way, can I get your name? Since you help me alot this time, I want to help you as well since I believe you also get a commission out of this." Alex rationalize just to flirt with the receptionist. The receptionist giggled when she heard the mysterious voice and Alex face was red "My name is Elune amd thank you Mr. Alex for your trust." Elune bows and Alex said his goodbye to her.
After Alex went out of townhall, the smile on Elune's face disappear and she immediately went to the Mayor's office. Upon opening the office, she went and sit at the swivel chair then someone enter "Mayor Elune, here are the information we have on Mr. Alex." The secretary pass a few papers to Elune to review and put a bunch of document on top of the table "And here are the details about the Triton company and the sales details of the hulk potion as well as the test results. Elune nodded "I'll review this over thank you! You can go now." Elune instructed the secretary.
After the secretary left, she review the information about Alex "Alex 32 Male orphan No talent in sword, magic or cultivation no backer. He worked at the northern wall to get some capital for his store and after even the price increase of several shops for the supply items, he didn't raise it but still able to earn a substantial amount to have an auction house as well as skill certificate." As she read more and more of Alex information, her smile grew "Interesting! No background, no backer and no illegal activity besides that one time of selling a Normal Rank skill book. What a good merchant." After putting down the papers about Alex, she took a sip on her tea an starts to review the details about the Triton Company and the details about the Hulk potion.
As time goes by amd kept on reading the details about the Triton company and the hulk potion, Elune's brow can't help but furrowed "illegitimate son of the Duke from a maid. Bullied by his brothers amd sisters hence he created the Triton company with his sworn brothers." Elune thought that this should be a nobles drama and her town would be part of this drama once again hence she can't help but sigh. Then she read the test results of the hulk potion and it seems that everything was okay. There eas no other side effect has been found so far besides the weakening of thr body for a day or two. "Oh well, as long as they are not doing illegal in my town, I guess I can tolerate it." Elune shakes her head and put down the repory and didn't read further.
And that was her fatal mistake as in the last page of the report, there was a short verbatim that was cited by Doctor Selene "This potion has an Addictive substance."