(Klaus's PoV)
I stayed at home for a few more days after Selya left. After that, I left for Kralin too. I have some plans that needed to be executed before I left for the academy.
Now that I have a good foot in the food industry, I'm going to invest in the lifestyle industry and construction industry.
Lifestyle includes the production of fashion and personal grooming products. The construction industry not only involves the production of construction materials but also the designing and actual construction.
Mages are usually involved in construction for nobles but for commoners, it isn't the scenario. Even if mages are involved, they still need construction materials like stone which are mined by miners. Glass is usually made by mages or natural lightning.
Since I'm situated in a coastal city, I have plenty of access to the sand. I planned to place glass factories beside salt factories by the sea.
I don't need stone or wood-producing factories as they are well-produced. I can buy from them if I wanted to build something.
What I wanted to introduce is a concept from my past world.
The government would give contracts to a certain company for the construction of roads and buildings. Usually whoever has the best bid would gain the contract. I'm tweaking it a little when I introduce it here.
I'll be the sole bidder and contractor.
As the archduke, my father would need to maintain roads between cities and towns. The fortresses at the borders would need repairs and maintenance. I'll manage the construction work, while my father would pay me for the work.
For now, I intended to do with my father and later expand it to other nobles in the archduchy.
To show the efficiency and work credit, Kralin would be the test site. I'm sure my father would approve of my idea. If I could renovate the city for the better, I can do so for others.
Before proposing this to my father, I would renovate the old estate. Though it still is a vacation home, it has long become my personal home.
After starting the factories I would start the renovation.
Now coming to lifestyle, I'm going to target the nobles at first. There is a reason for that. I'm going to introduce perfumes, soaps, and such into this world. For now, only they could afford for now. Fashion may take some time as I would be full on hands with these to do.
That is for my business, at least for now.
Coming to my enemies, seen and unseen, ones that exist now and ones that would pop in the future, the only thing is to become strong, strong enough to beat the shit out of them.
I would need a lot of sin points for that to happen.
From the items that are available in the shop, I made items that are required for now.
First I need an elemental root. From what I read in the brief description of the elemental root is that planting it inside me would cause pain. The pain would be much higher if the body already formed mana heart and mana circuits.
I can get earth elemental root in a few months but that won't go well with my plans for the future.
I would like fire, lightning, or thunder. These three would go very well with my plans. The problem is the cost. Maybe by spending my wealth, I can get sin points through gluttony, by eating good quality monster meat.
This would at most help me gain points enough for fire or lightning. Thunder is a far cry at this moment.
There is a competition that happens in the academy. This would give access to good quality resources and in quantity too.
Hmm, Hmm, I should postpone the elemental root for now. I should form mana heart and mana circuits and increase my tier as soon as possible.
As the saying goes 'No Pain, No Gain'.
I would later buy and implant the elemental roots.
So now that is decided, I need to buy the superior guide to become a Tier-0 mage in the system and also the meditation technique.
Though there are meditation techniques in the family library, I don't think they are better than the ones in the system. The world is backward, so knowledge about mana heart and mana circuits would definitely be primitive.
Moreover, I believe it is better to use the system resources for my body since I wouldn't be a conventional mage and the roots would also be from the system. If I create something else that clashes with the system, there is already mention of pain when implanting. This I'm sure would be more.
In addition to them, I need to increase my comprehension too. This would increase my perception of magic. Mana detection, and regeneration increase, and the usage of spells would be easier.
I immediately bought the guide, meditation technique, and a concoction to increase comprehension. After buying a total of four items including the Analysis skill, I was left with 42,000 Sin Points.
I need to increase my points or my growth would be hindered.