The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 775

Over the course of the next three hours, messengers came one after another, each of them informing either Karl or Lotus personally that their boarder had been hired.

Obviously, they were mostly hired out of respect for one of the two, and even the ones for Karl mentioned Lotus in some way. Mostly a message requesting that she return occasionally to the park as a healing tree.

Lotus had no problem with that, and she would happily go be a tree there every so often, just to keep the people in good health.

If she didn’t, they would start looking for her at home, and that would be even more time-consuming than spending a day a week as a Tree of Life.

During that time, Karl had begun to enchant rings with various simple runes, focusing on the Royal Rank items. But there was one effect conspicuously missing.

"No Giant Strength rings?" Loros asked, knowing that was what Karl put on the ones that he had sold to Jeweller Magos.

Karl shook his head. "If I only sell them to the Royal Jeweller, then the majority of the buyers, the warrior classes, will have to go to them, and we can keep a flow of money coming and our business relationship strong.

You see, if something happens and our personal reputation takes a hit, selling specific items to other vendors will maintain our funding even during times of hardship.

If they take a hit and have to close, we can simply nominate a replacement and elevate them with the sale of the rings."

Wendy laughed at his analysis.

"You have a rather cruel outlook on business. Trade wars within the city are all but unheard of. Most businesses here last for entire generations." She explained.

While they talked, Lotus took a number of items out of her inventory and placed them on top of the new cabinets.

"You can enchant these as well. I think that the police and the debt collectors will love them." She insisted.

Karl looked at the assortment of clubs, batons and baseball bats, plus a few gnarled mage staves for Karl to upgrade.

Karl quickly carved runes for stunning on the clubs and bats, making them a nonlethal weapon with exceptional durability.

Then Karl decided what to do with the staves. Something simple would be best.

[Fireball. Fireball solves everything.] Hawk insisted.

He even had a whole pile of lower grade Fire Element stones that could be carved with the spell.

Karl carved the stones, then made the staves Royal Rank magical items with extra spell power and mana storage. The wood that Lotus made was exceptionally well suited to such mana storage, and dozens of fireballs could be cast at Commander Rank before it was depleted.

That should make them a valuable item on the market.

Karl set one on the top shelf of a display case, and locked the others underneath. At the moment, Davis and Karl were the only ones who could operate the barriers, so there was no chance that they would be stolen without breaking the Overlord Rank barriers.