Once back at his residence alexander met a messenger with the necessary resources to concoct the level 5 potions
Summons have 75% of the intelligence of a level 5 mage so they can be sent to look for ingredients, but to be more careful and speed up the process , Alexander will assign more people to the task
their mission will be to find the ingredients necessary for the preparation of the potion of strength or vitality
he will take advantage of this to weave a network of spies across the cities of central Oberon
knowing that all this will take time, he will also develop a force of mages to help him in his quest
so first, we will have to build or acquire different hotels and restaurants (now that Alexander was protected by the alchemist's guild and the Heartofsteel family, he could afford to show some wealth )
then look among the different slave traders if there have competent slaves and recruit low-level mages through talent tests, he can also organize competitions in the art of combat, alchemy and the art of blacksmithing for low level mages (level 1 to 3) who do not follow any family and try to hire them
once the teams are established, trained and then used to hunt groups of monsters, and ultimately use the teams to hunt for level 6 monsters ( monsters who are used for the potion of strength and vitality )
plus every month Alexander will hunt in mountainous regions to acquire level 5 summons there
this is Alexander's medium term plan, his short term plan was to create potions and in the long term to create a powerful force in Oberon
in addition , Alexander will train the girls he had bought from the slave trader because they were talented and it wasn't a good idea to stay idle for to long.
but first he had to make sure that they remained faithful to him
later in the evening , while he was in bed, Alexander asked Ella if she was interested in Henry and if she wanted to go over to his side, he assured her that nothing will happen to her if she choose to leave him.
she refused at first but as the conversation progressed she said that she wasn't very sure, with Henry she could access many resources while Alexander only kept them (the girls ) for his amusement (Alexander is a mage of rank 6 so he knows when a mage of rank 1 to 5 is lying to him or trying to fool him)
for Alexander , it was normal and even healthy for a mage to seek power, so he did not try to stop her , she just had to seek power while being his subordinate.
he told her that he understood how she felt but that he could not protect a person who could change sides at any time
She said she was sorry for that and Alexander comforted her (she didn't know any of Alexander's secrets so he could let her go) and told her that the next morning he would take her to Henry's house.
She told him that it was still too early, that her relationship with Henry was not developed enough, Alexander therefore provided her with some stone elements and offered to accommodate her in his hotel in Ugul so that he could keep an eye on her
that same evening he visited the other girls and explained his plan to them (that now in addition to being with him they had to try and increase their levels and that he will provide them with the necessary resources ) and that they could leave now because once he would use resources to help them increased their level, they could no longer leave
the two girls agreed with Alexander's terms, he also informed them that Ella was going to leave because she had found her childhood friend, the two girls said nothing
the next day Ella left the residence and one of his summons Mr 01 went to the slave trader of Ugul to acquire new slaves
Mr 1 found different mages, unlike Agartha, there were even level 5 mages but only the big factions could afford to buy them ( it's not about the price but a level 5 mage is to cunning , so you need a lot of power to keep him in check )
in general :
a level 0 mage lives 200 years
a level 1 mage lives 300 years
a level 2 mage lives 500 years
a level 3 mage lives 1,000 years
a level 4 mage lives 3,000 years
and a level 5 mage life 10,000 years
a level 6 the mage is immortal, at least his body
only at level 7 when the mage mind is completely synchronized with a law that we can truly say that he is immortal, before this level, the spirit of a level 6 mage who is over 1 million years old becomes ill, he starts to forget things, loses his temper easily and finally goes into a kind of coma and after 500,000 years the mage dies
Mr. 1 bought different mages, the first were those who mastered the art of forging and alchemy, then the most talented mages, mainly at level 4, perhaps after 3000 years they will become level 5 mages
the merchant tried to suggest to mr 1 the use of poison but Mr. 1 said he had his own methods
he took everyone to Alexander's villa, there , they will train and become Alexander's future army
these different mages will be thought different things (science history ect … ) and transformed into future butlers and chefs ( spies who will work in the different establishments owned by Alexander )
Alexander also had to establish a brothels in Oberon's red district, most of Oberon's secrets were exchanged in this type of establishment.
then came the question of recruiting and training the prostitutes who would work there
for this he hired several history,language, etiquette teachers etc…
all of this is to offer impeccable service
he then started to recruit different girls, promising them 70% of the earnings, some mages were looking for power, others were looking to get rich easily, many girls and slaves were attracted by the offer
in the end some girls were accepted and others were not, ( for example if a girl is sold by her family to work as a prostitute she will not be accepted )
in the contract , once the prostitute worked for 50 years , she could choose either to re-sign a contract for another 50 years or choose to work in the different hotels and restaurants owned by Alexander or retire on her own
their safety would be ensured, unless the enemy was a mage of level 7 or higher
being a prostitute has always been a dangerous profession where you never know what will happen unfortunately Alexander could not attack a powerful family or a powerful magician because of a girl, so he couldn't protect his people 100 %
a prostitute could make in a day what an average mage of the same level would do in 1 month or even a year
therefore, even under this conditions, several people still signed the contract
3 years later the establishment of the red lotus was born
there would only be 8 establishments at the moment because Alexander only had 8 invocations, one of the establishments will be open to Ugul
even some level 5 mages (males and females ) signed the contract, when you have to choose between being a pawn in an intergalactic war or work for yourself under the protection of a level 6 mage , you choose quickly
95% of the clients were level 6 or lower, which didn't cause to Alexander any problem but the rest of the clients either had strong connections or came from wealthy families
the most notorious perverts with a bad reputation were directly excluded from the establishments managed by Alexander, which gave him a lot of free publicity
excluding the young masters from certain families straight away was unheard of as people usually try to please those young masters
one of the young masters, infuriated with the exclusion , put makeup on and went to the red lotus of ugul to cause problems, fortunately there was Mr. 1 there and he stopped him in time
some girls were not very bright and wanted to earn more money or maybe something else (maybe to get married or started a non-commercial relationship with the other party) decided to do their business out of the establishment
the majority did not return and their dead bodies were found a few days later
Alexander knew the health status of each girl who was implanted with an orb of obedience, so he knew whether a girl chose to run or died.
for this type of client, no revenge was carried because it was the girl who voluntarily left the establishment, moreover this could lead to problems because those who could challenge a level 6 mage like this generally had powerful individuals behind them
finally some girls found love and as stipulated in the contract had to give enough money to buy themselves back from the red lotus company