In one month, he will earn at least 30,000 karma or 2.8 gold coins worth of bread. It should be more than that since his student count is holding steady at 300 now.
By the time his average student counts reach 300, he will be earning up to 45,000 Kama per month. This is even more than the 34,500 karma he will earn every month if he distributes 500 loaves of bread every day and earns an average of 2.3 karma for each loaf.
The best part is that the karma he earns from the dojo is free. He can earn a lot more karma from distributing bread, but he will have to increase the amount of money he spends on it.
Not only does he spend money to earn karma from distributing bread, but he also needs to spend time to distribute the bread. Meanwhile, he only spends time running the dojo.
The time he needs to spend on running the dojo is fixed, but the number of students he can teach during that time is not. If his student count increases, he will earn even more karma.
So it is clear which endeavor is very important and why he can't give up the dojo. Even so, he still winced as he paid the money needed to purchase the surface-level information.
The attendant received his one gold coin. In exchange, he was given a small book.
He looked at the book. It was thin, probably not up to 20 pages.
He couldn't help but ask, "All of these for 1 gold coin?"
The attendant, a woman, nodded and said, "We are generous, aren't we? A single sentence can be worth more than one gold coin, but we gave you many sentences so that you will have more than you paid for."
"If you want more, then pay for the deep-level package. You will receive a box worth of information."
He nodded and left quickly. While he was leaving, he thought to himself, "It is times like this that I miss the internet."
The internet and its many sources of entertainment are what he misses the most about his past life. It is not his family and friends.
He can't even remember what his family and friends look like after so many years. They have become vague in his mind.
But he can't forget the internet because it has left too much of an impression on his life. Even now, he feels the absence of the internet.
Because there is no internet, he has to pay so much money for information that he would have been able to acquire with a simple search in a search engine or an inquiry to an AI chatbot.
He lamented what he had lost as he returned home. Then he wasted no time in reading what he paid for.
He learned that the alliance of dojos is an officiating body. It is just as the two lackeys had said. The alliance of dojos is in charge of maintaining the standards of learning.
Every dojo master is part of this alliance. But the leaders that make the rules are independent and powerful entities from various places, such as the Dyson family.
Actually, the organization is controlled by the Dyson family. But the Dyson family rarely intervenes in the affairs of the alliance because it runs very well on its own.
Just the existence of someone from the Dyson family is enough to make the alliance operate without much issue. Anyone that will cause any trouble must be ready to risk angering the Dyson family.
The book he received also mentioned how many independent officials the organization has. There are supposed to be 12 officials.
The job of the officials is to run errands for the alliance. They are the ones that actually do any work in the alliance. The two men that came to inspect his dojo are lackeys for these 12 officials.
Apart from this general knowledge about the alliance of dojos, the book contains mostly information about the 12 officials and the leaders of the alliance.
The general information of the alliance only took five pages. These five pages contained information about the size of the organization and the general structure of the alliance of dojos.
The rest of the book is personal information about the officials and leaders of the alliance. Two pages were dedicated to each of them. One page was a drawing of their appearance, while the other page is a summary of their information.
The information was written on both sides of the pages. One side had the pencil-drawn image of the official or leader of the dojo, while the other page had the summary on the drawn image.
This summary was sometimes short and sometimes long. But it contained information about the backgrounds and the suspected power of each of them.
Arthur was satisfied with the information. He said, "This is not bad at all. With just one gold coin, I know this much about the alliance. It makes me wonder what I will learn if I buy the deep-level information."
He was curious about what kind of information was worthy of being sold as deep, but he wasn't willing to fork over 10 gold coins for it. What he has acquired is enough for him to find his targets if he needs to attack them.
The acquisition of this information finally let him relax. He sighed in relief and said, "Now I can return to my exercise. I spent one hour on the information, so I still have 2 hours to exercise."
He said that, but he felt like not doing the exercise. Exercising daily is not an easy thing to do. Each time, he needs some sort of encouragement to pick up that sledgehammer and smash it against the metal block.
Fortunately, he has a ready-made and reusable source of encouragement. He called upon it now by bringing up his status in the Mountain Sitting Dao system.