After locking the confidential documents in the safe, Nidhogg took a bottle of chilled red wine from the wine barrel. The blood-red liquid filled the glass. He took a sip of the fine wine from the Latu Winery, savoring the 300-year-old liquid gold, which tasted remarkable. His eyes shifted to the few boxes placed on his desk.
This was the royal capital, where if one wanted to get something done, bribing and greasing palms was an indispensable step. Often, if something went wrong, it wasn't due to incompetence, but rather that one could not afford the price to get the job done.
V.E Company was never short on money, and any ordinary department manager could easily pull out a stack of green bills and beat someone half to death with it. Many officials took a second salary directly from the company, and as a result, V.E Company and government officials built an unbreakable friendship through "money and violence."
