Chapter 877 - 829: Officially Taking Over the Tavern Owner Position
A flash of light, and Da Fei appeared alone at the teleportation array in the square of the Dwarf Kingdom’s capital, Moradin.
As for the Angel Army that transformed into female Demons, they were all left at the barracks in Kledin Town, to avoid flaunting on the streets. That’s right, high-profile doesn’t equal flaunting, and pretending doesn’t equal leaking secrets. Acting pretentious everywhere all the time makes one a fool. Especially when facing a master like Skyshattering Thunder who not only has skills but also business acumen and top-level NPC relations, I’m even more cautious and mindful.
The appearance of Da Fei undoubtedly once again attracted the attention of pedestrians and the hustle on the city channel. Da Fei couldn’t help but feel a sense of urgency. If Skyshattering Thunder knew that I had a tavern business here, would he invite players to come and cause trouble under a red name, or request the Prince to employ various sneak attacks from behind?
This issue needs to be taken seriously.
When Da Fei arrived at the Iron Helmet Tavern, he suddenly discovered that the first floor’s tavern tables were crowded and noisy, filled with NPC customers and randomly refreshed Wandering Heroes, all drinking gleefully. Additionally, many headhunter players living by selling hero intelligence were constantly refreshing forum information in front of the tavern bulletin board.
Da Fei’s eyebrow jumped; this is far more bustling than it was a few days ago! Could it be that the Forest Spring wine I developed succeeded? It must be the case. This is the Forest Spring brought back from Divine Domain Space; even if casually mixed with water in the mash, it becomes a new-style fine wine; it’s hard not to succeed!
As Da Fei entered, those headhunter players in the tavern stared at him collectively: "It’s the legendary Da Fei!"
"Even Da Fei is here!"
Da Fei couldn’t help but chuckle; if a tavern can attract headhunter players to settle, it shows that the hero quality refreshed by this tavern is quite good. Especially since there are not many dwarf players in the China Region, the hero popularity in dwarf taverns is far less than that of humans, elves, and undead.
Da Fei then came in front of the familiar shopkeeper, Malikim, and before he could speak, Malikim laughed heartily: "Are you here to book a private room on the second floor? Please go to the Black Crystal Stone room on the second floor."
Huh? Pretending not to know me? Fine, let’s discuss business in the old spot. So, under the fervent attention of the headhunter players, Da Fei went up to the private room on the second floor to wait quietly.
Soon, there was a knock at the door of the private room, and Malikim entered with a stack of Japanese books, smiling: "Mr. Da Fei, welcome, welcome!"
Da Fei laughed: "You’re too kind, shopkeeper."
Malikim laughed: "It’s been more than ten days since we last saw each other, and your achievements on the Hell Battlefield have been amazing. You’ve become quite the talk in many taverns, even His Highness is filled with admiration for you again."
Wow, even the NPCs in the Dwarf Kingdom know, my world reputation must be off the charts!
Da Fei laughed: "You flatter me too much."
Malikim laughed: "First, let me tell Mr. Da Fei the first good news: our fine wine has been developed. Once it was tested and launched, the shop’s business immediately exploded, with daily sales of 3,000 Gold Coins. However, as it’s still the testing phase, the cost value of the Forest Spring cannot be estimated, so actual profits can’t yet be calculated. But anyway, by developing the fine wine, you’ve officially become the owner of this shop!"
— System Prompt: You have completed the Iron Helmet Tavern’s transfer task "Develop New Wine," earning Experience +200,000, Moradin City Reputation +2000, you have received the Iron Helmet Tavern Property Rights Certificate, Iron Helmet Tavern Business Certificate, you are officially the owner of the Iron Helmet Tavern!
Finally got it done! Da Fei couldn’t help but take a long sigh of relief. Originally transferring a tavern was just a word from the Prince, but he insisted on getting me to complete a task that took so much time away from earning money! Although pure profit is 3,000 Gold Coins game time per day, which is 30,000 in real time per day, that’s not very profitable, right?
But it doesn’t matter, having it is better than not having it, steady streams. If all else fails, I’ll just open more shops everywhere.
Malikim continued with a smile: "Let me tell the big boss the second good news: to show respect for the boss, His Highness has waived the boss’s 30 million Gold Coins debt, so from now on, the tavern’s income is entirely at the boss’s disposal!"
Da Fei couldn’t help but be stunned; I owe the Prince 30 million? From when? Damn! That’s from when he funded me to buy his tavern! Geez, I helped him jack up his tavern to a price of 90 million, and he’s already made a killing but still remembers the debt? Well, it’s good to be waived; he’s smart to do so.
Malikim continued: "15% of the tavern income is paid as tax to the Kingdom, which can’t be changed. Then, 50% of the income is tavern funds, including chef, worker wages, procurement, tavern upgrades, and payment for barmaids. Then 35% is freely extractable Gold Coins for the boss’s personal use, the boss can adjust the ratio of free funds to tavern funds, the higher the tavern funds ratio, the better the tavern development. Currently, our tavern funds are 100,000 Gold Coins, and free funds are 70,000 Gold Coins, meaning the boss can freely extract these 70,000 Gold Coins."
Oh my gosh! I usually casually spend one or two million and you’re talking about a mere 70,000 Gold Coins?
Da Fei waved his hand: "All-out development of the tavern, adjust the tavern funds ratio to 85%, handle everything else for me."
Malikim laughed: "Does the boss not want to take any pocket money from the tavern?"
Da Fei laughed: "No, let’s focus the initial efforts on building the business, making our new wine big and strong!"
Malikim clapped his hands continuously: "Excellent! You are indeed the boss admired by His Highness, we will use the spare funds to hire high-end brewers, and now I can tell the boss a secret!"
Here, Malikim’s voice deepened: "Boss knows why His Highness wants to send you to maintain order in Chimera Forest? Because it’s a land of divine character comparable to Divine Domain Space, the Forest Spring produced there isn’t inferior to the batch the boss brought back last time. Once we successfully control it, the profits brought by it would be unimaginable. Of course, once we successfully control it, the Prince would definitely be envious and won’t stand by idly, please prepare to respond!"
Da Fei’s eyebrow jumped, I anticipated that it was a land with rich divine character, but didn’t expect that even the Prince would get involved? Seems like I must control the situation; I’ll need to specifically talk to Little Ming.
Da Fei nodded: "Got it. I’ll keep that in mind."
Malikim chuckled: "Alright, if the boss has nothing else to do, I’ll go take care of business."
Da Fei immediately said: "Oh right, there’s one thing, I’d like to ask if you can help with it!"
Da Fei immediately took out the slip of paper he left with those old Mage folks when leaving the Lighthouse Islands from New Oriental: "I need to find the people on these slips, no other purpose, just to say hi."
Since these names somehow involve the succession conflict between the two Princes, it must be story events, and there’s no reason for the Prince not to help find them.
Malikim took the slip and frowned: "Some villages listed here have ceased to exist decades ago, is this important?"
If it were really important, I wouldn’t have forgotten and dragged it until now. Da Fei sighed: "It should be important, it should somehow benefit His Highness a little."
Malikim nodded: "Actually, looking for people doesn’t necessarily need to alarm the Prince. We can set up a secret intelligence department right in the tavern ourselves, but this will require at least 10,000 Gold Coins monthly in tavern funds to hire intelligence agents. If it’s more classified information, then hiring from outside wouldn’t be possible; we’d need to train reliable intelligence agents ourselves."
Da Fei nodded: "Can our tavern afford to pay 10,000 Gold Coins a month?"
Malikim laughed: "After the boss adjusted the tavern funds ratio to 85%, it’s no problem, and after setting up the secret intelligence department, we can recruit barmaids at the tavern. Although this will require another funding, once we have barmaids, it will greatly boost our business, potentially offsetting the intelligence department’s costs, making it vital for tavern development."
Oh, that’s how barmaid information is acquired, huh? But thinking about dwarf tavern barmaids made Da Fei shudder.
All in all, Da Fei did not want to deal with these trivial matters; he’d rather manage it ordinarily and be a hands-off owner.
Da Fei chuckled: "Alright then, I’ll leave all of this to you."
"Okay, boss, I’ll immediately prepare."
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