"Sir Letra, I came here for a reason."
"Oh"
He dropped his teacup and focused on Rein
"Okay you can speak my lord"
Rein shyly stopped him,
"Please can we refrain from using such honorifics"
"But why my lord, you are my master's only son?"
"No...Yes, I know I am, I just mean, I don't want people finding out about my identity..."
"Oh okay I can just call you Sir Reinard"
'It's still too much but I can't be wasting any more time here'
"Well, the thing is I need something. The second test of the academy is coming up soon and it's going to be bloody...."
The chief merchant cut in,
"you don't need to say anymore my... Sir Reinard, you see as an Artician prosperous merchant we are bound to have access to a lot of highly secured and classified information, I know about the second test. Even though the Artician council debated the military was bound on having it their way so there was nothing we bunch could do but support them, the lives of we Artician is at stake, it looks like they are taking it for a joke."
'Well he ended up saying a lot, I didn't even ask ... .. .. .wait...'
"Excuse me, uncle....? Did the military, the council, the union, how much governing body does the Artician have?"
In the chief merchant's head
'Ah he called me Uncle,.. .. . U..ncuuuuu.... the Duke's son... oh my, what did I ever do to deserve such love'
'....I bet he's overthinking'
The chief merchant, Letra cleared his throat with a smile that irritated Rein.
"I'll explain now, so listen well, Master Rein"
'....This guy... I thought he was gonna call me sir'
'The union is the sky of the Artician continent, as you probably know, even though there are different nations in the Central artic, we don't use the term kings and emperors as the northern and eastern continent does, the leaders of the nations here are called Governors and when the leaders come together to talk on matters regarding the continent they're called the council, the union can be seen as the supreme god of the central arctic, and the military is a body that stands on it own, of course, owned by the union since they were the one that created the military but as far as we've known the union don't oftentimes involve themselves with matters unless it is out of the hand of both the military and the council and as you probably already know the head of the military-appointed by the union and chosen based on heritage is the lord of the academy.
"Ah...that man"
'I finally get it now, they are very much United more than any other continent'
"I'll finally tell you what I need... Recently I found a way to make healing potions."
"Uhm ...I don't quite understand you?"
"I mean, a kind of drink that when you take it, your wounds will be completely healed no matter how severe"
"Bahhh, Young master that's not possible, if it were possible Articians would've had what you call pot-ions everywhere now."
"It not Pot-ions, potions, potions, well I wonder too"
Rein had a grim expression on his face.
'Well, I stumbled upon something interesting while I was in the dungeon'
"Will you trust me and get me the following ingredients, first my concern ie to preserve the lives of my comrades but afterwards I'll be releasing in large sales to the Central artic and that will lead us to my second request, I want to create a business enterprise, adventurers based enterprise."
'His words are so hard to comprehend, is this the intellect of a scholar, no matter how I look at it he's way too much for me to comprehend, Duke Erin found a great treasure'
He clears his throat
"I'm not sure what an en-tar-pppp.... ... ... aish why is it so hard to pronounce... I'm sorry young master I just can't seem to match your wit, as expected of a scholar, they are just too great."
'What's this bastard blabbing over me just using some earth words'
Rein smiled on the outside,
"Well, what I mean is to create a legal, formal business operation not too big not small either, well organised and structured and will be focused on meeting adventurers needs and putting loots to good use."
"Ahhhh how thoughtful of you young master, indeed you've got the brains"
"I know right"
Reinard scoffed as he was being praised.
Just right then ...
𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒐𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒎𝒎𝒎𝒎𝒎!!!!
The chief immediately rose from his seat~
"th-that direction...."
His eyes widened as he pointed towards the slums market where the explosion sounded from.