Hero of Darkness

As soon as Kahn took out the blood-bind contracts & the blood-oath token, the mighty and godly figures were slightly surprised.

Normally, it was them who demanded for these measures to the people who came to make deals with them and that too with terms and conditions which only favored their side.

But here, it was Kahn deciding the terms and conditions of the contract and didn't hesitate twice before he directly took out these contracts and the blood-oath token.

Usually, just their word was enough to make sure the deal was considered done but in this case, it was the young and a beginner businessman making them sign the dealings and even using the artifact to facilitate the deal. As if their word & reputation had no meaning to them and the young semi-saint rank human did not have an ounce of respect towards their background or prestige.

But at this moment, they did not waste their time arguing or doing unnecessary talk since the terms and conditions of their agreement were far favorable to their side and in the long term, they would save their respective clans and organizations a lot of wealth.

Just from the impression they received from Kahn who was not only a prodigy in their eyes but also a fearless person who didn't even show a hint of slight fear or cowardice in front of them, earned him their acknowledgement.

When someone of their rank went to a business meeting, it would be the host licking their shoes just to receive these saint rank people's grace. But here, they were treated like a normal customer if the 30% discount term was out of the equation.

To people like them, who themselves were fearless of anything or anyone'¦ this way of conducting business while retaining your calm demeanor throughout the whole meeting and not getting overwhelmed after knowing who they were had given all the clan leaders a good sense of understanding about the young man.

In the next few hours, both the contracts and the blood-oath binding was done. The first batch of weapons, armors and tools along with the expected quantity was decided. Since it was the first time, the contracts were done only on an annual basis and both sides would be subjected to penalty should either of them fail to deliver upon the agreement or the payments.

On the paper, it looked like Kahn was losing 40% of the money he should be receiving. But in reality, he had benefited from these deals the most.

Although he wasn't making too much profit. But what he gained was free security, skilled and trained fighters to guard his properties and business sites, having the names of these powerful clans officially attached to his company after he would have their people protect his enterprise.

And it greatly solved the problem of expanding his business to other districts. From now on, these clans who also signed the dealership contracts on top of the arms deals; would sell his company's products in their established shops and settlements.

Although they'd make a small profit over it.. But with that, the Bloodborne company would rise in popularity, prestige and the name of Albestros Winston, the Grandmaster Blacksmith would also spread throughout other districts of Rathna.

This was a form of free exposure & marketing.

And unlike him, these forces had far better ways of transportation including flying ships for long-distance shipping and deliveries. So he'd also use their devices to his own advantage.

And there was little chance of them ganging up on him as he would be the one to place their soldiers on buildings & stores of his own choosing. Naturally, he would mix them which would also prohibit their respective forces from colluding & stealing his products.

Even with being part of the Pureblood faction, these forces weren't neighbors or had blood relations to pull off such stunts.

And the problem regarding the amount of resources Kahn & his High Lord subordinates were in dire need of was finally solved as soon as he would receive these S Rank cores in the quantity of hundred thousands every month.

So he and all of the subordinates could steadily level up without having to go hunting in the forest and search for legendary rank monsters at this point. Because even High Lord rank monsters didn't raise too many levels and they are very rare, to begin with.

Just the down payment in Orichalcum plates he received from all the 8 saint rank clan leaders was worth a billion gold coins. And the entire deal would get his company's annual income to more than 8 billion gold coins if he factored in the usual business earnings & the money he'd get from the Vandereich clan, his first-ever customer.

After he made calculations about the taxes, management & salary of the employees.. He was completely overwhelmed.

Because even after giving Albestros his cut, all the expenditures done on management, transportation & production... Kahn would still earn a billion gold dramus as annual income.

And that too with only his current capacity. If he opened more stores and company buildings.. There was a chance to make the double in just upcoming months.

Kahn heaved a sigh and let out a gentle smile as he spoke..

"Let's get to work!"

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ONE MONTH LATER

Kahn now sat in the main office of his new company building.

The new headquarters of the Bloodborne Enterprise was now 5 times bigger, wider and just in their new headquarter alone, were more than 20 thousand people working dozens of enormous buildings. From logistics to production and distribution.. He had all of the specific departments set in different building in this 6 kilometer premises.

The total of 42 thousand employees and 97 shops were now under the name of Bloodborne company. And even more blacksmiths were begging to join their enterprise to work under & learn from Albestros every single day.

With the billion dramus he received, the first thing Kahn did was to buy out one of the biggest and most suitable industrial facilities situated in the central area of the Rukon district.

The previously used building given to them by Prithvi, the Grandmaster Alchemist was no longer efficient for their use as the base of operation. But he didn't abandon the site.. Instead, he still kept it as it is and hired more people to work there as a branch office.

The old building was situated at the northern end of the district. And Kahn then bought another big company building at the southern end of the district. So these 2 branches acted as storage, distribution & production facilities who would act as a hub to deploy the product to their partners, the forces of the saint rank clan leaders; given how his company was getting popular and the demand was increasing drastically.

The first 3 weeks alone went into settling the new places and hiring more employees with blood-bind contracts in play.

Jugram was in charge of the security of the main headquarters where Kahn also worked.

While he left Omega in charge of managing and protecting the old building. As for the new branch office.. Was left in charge a particular murderous and sadist subordinate of his who recently met the requirements to take a human form.

It was the same subordinate who liked nothing but playing with the dead.

Ceril, the Necromancer.

After he took a human form, Ceril was now a dashing black haired grown-up man who wore glasses and always had a mage staff & a grimoire in his hands.

Ceril looked a lot like Kahn.. Just a more nerdy and bookworm version of him. He was clad in white and purple mage robes and seemed like an extremely intelligent person from first glance. Even to many female employees, he appeared as the mysterious and ladykiller boss just like those Korean Drama shows.

[[Author : Reference Art for Ceril Human Form given in chapter comments. Check it out.]]

And just like the other subordinates who inherited an aspect of his personality after reaching 100% loyalty & taking a human form.. Ceril gained the calculative and workaholic side of him.

And being an undead subordinate himself.. Ceril was very curious about the aspect of death and wanted to kill people and experiment upon their bodies.

So to calm Ceril down.. Kahn had no choice but to offer the peak grandmaster mage and the female orc warrior he killed in the headquarters of Red Right Hand organization to him in the name of 'scientific research'.

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After working tirelessly for the past month... Kahn now had officially established himself in the capital and set himself up as a person with money, resources and authority to some extent.

Even though he wasn't as powerful as the major clans, factions or the government authorities.. He was still ahead of the 4 billion citizens of the Rakos Empire.

What took many people decades of hard work, he did it in just 4 months by playing his cards right and making friends of the powerful people.

Kahn wasn't some thousands of years old Cultivator reincarnated as a young boy who knew all the recipes of high-grade pills & potions and even knew how to make legendary weapons because of the knowledge & experience from his past life.

And neither was he a top video game expert of some MMORPG game sent back in time who knew the rules & easy ways to become strong very quickly or make money and resources based on the knowledge of the future events.

He was someone with a clean slate when he entered this new world. So this was why he had to work his ass off to make it big and even risk his life in the mean process.

Because the idea of a weak MC suddenly rising ranks, power, authority and fighting the top dogs of the world didn't work in real life. So he had to play all his cards carefully.

After everything was finally settled, Kahn had now officially established himself in the capital and possessed everything he needed in order to grow strong and live his life on his own accord.

For him.. The fruits of his labor had finally paid off.

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[[Author : This marks the end of the Business Mini-Arc.

I know this bored a lot of you guys and many found the past 30 chapters boring and unattractive but this was the only way I could give Kahn a strong foundation and logical approach for actually becoming someone with enough backing, wealth and resources.

Because in real life, randomly killing people, hunting in dungeons and robbing the dead can never make you someone with real wealth, power and resources (unless you're a politician).

I hope you liked my poor attempt at logical approach in a fictional story.]]