The next morning I had to spend a good 5 minutes prying to clingy sleeping hestia off me who immediately took over my warm spot I was sleeping in and passed right back out.
The only two who were up where Jane and Harribel. Neither of which where allowed to touch the stove to cook breakfast as it usually leads to a tragic ending. Such as exploding stoves and melted pans I have no idea how they do it.
With the smell of cooking breakfast the others quickly woke. Karin was carrying a still asleep hestia on her shoulder.
Hestia had learned the ancient art of sleep eating. she could sit properly at the table with fork in hand and chow down all while never opening her eyes. It was quite a fun thing to watch.
After breakfast and tucking hestia back into bed as she won't wake up til afternoon.
We made our way to our new jobs. Jane and Nel for the general store. Me, xun'er, Harribel, and Karin for the clinic and a couple clones to the blacksmith shop to set up stock and fire up the forges.
There where already curious people outside the buildings as its something none of them have seen before to have new building literally pop up overnight.
Harribel sat behind the counter on the first floor as she was going to be my secretary for quite a while. It seems odd for someone who doesn't talk much to be a secretary but hey who am I to judge.
First order of business was setting up a proper operating room. since we where near a forest filled with monsters I can expect a lot of injuries needing stitches or casting for either bites, broken bones or other people stabbing them in the back.
Karin followed behind going over a check list as things appeared. Blood bags, scalpels, casting materials, disinfectants, all sorts of medical supplies.
Of course we weren't expecting many if any patients the first day as who comes to an unknown doctor on the first day. So this would be a day of double checking things.
I was correct as the most we got where people curiously coming in and being told by Harribel what this place was before leaving for the other buildings.
The most popular by far was the general goods store. With Jane and Nel selling off items easily due to their beauty. They did turn down a lot of people making offers for dates and had to throw some out proving they weren't weak. One of the best sellers was spatial rings as you don't see many this far away from towns. What people didn't know was that when the owner of the ring dies there's a port key attachment that brings the ring back to the store so we get whatever goods they had.
Other than that it was popular because of high quality goods. The clothes where much more comfortable as most people wore that rough course clothing no one knows what it's really made of its just kind of there looking like potato sack material.
the only problem would be the selling area as I had no idea what things where worth so to solve that problem I'd have Amanda come and help out also to prevent scams as how can you scam someone who can read minds? She was all too happy to help.
As for the blacksmith shop business was quite steady as there weren't that many blacksmiths with decent ability in the area. With tons of mercenaries and adventurers in town who needed weapon repairs it was quite a good call.
The weapons we sold were all of very good quality and could handle cultivators swinging them around and beating them up. They didn't have to look pretty they just had to be strong. The only people who get pretty weapons are of course idiot young masters who think they are hot shit. Of course we had a selection of those. But the true people of talent knew what to ask for.
After a few hours it was time for us to head out for a lunch break. we decided to check out Sirius's bar.
We made our way over to his new building which looked like a typical bar and had a big black dog for a sign with the words shaggy dog under it.
Making our way inside the crowded place we are greeted with the sound of acdc and other music along with the sounds of sports on some big screen tvs he had even gotten quidditch matches going. There was everything from soccer to ufc.
Behind the bar stood Sirius cleaning a mug looking like a complete twat as usual. Rows of different liquors and food menus where behind him.
There where instructions on how to get what you want as you just ordered and the food would be magiced to the table by house elves he was borrowing.
The other form of entertainment was a fighting pit with gambling. We got to watch Emmet fight against drunk adventurers and have a good time for lunch.
After some bacon cheeseburgers and cold sodas we all heading back happily chatting about how the day was going. Making sure to have a clone drop of food for our floof goddess hestia who might be awake now.
The only one with nothing to do would be xun'er so I'd have a clone start teaching her flash step. As that's like a combat bread and butter everyone should know. She was not too happy about having to do some extreme exercises until I showed her what flash step could do. Her motivation reached an all time high as I zoomed around at insane speeds she could barely see.