“After the war he can get rid of the excess art!”
For the time being, the economy of each village depended on Morata. He could grow their culture by selling off the art to each town. Nevertheless, the sale of the products gave big benefits despite the conditions to the northern lords. Trade with Morata did not give them any losses and there was no longer a need to war against Morata. So with these facts given to each town, a second war of Morata would not happen. Zephyr's thought more highly of Weed now. He had conquered the Northern Alliance. It was complex reasonable judgement and there was no need to make a hateful enemy.
“The strategy and the planning, as well as the policies. It's so scary that no one had noticed!”
While pretending to do this, he was actually waiting to exploit and harvest the benefits. Weed determination and concentration towards money was one of a kind.
“Fresh grass porridge.”
The festival celebrating Morata's victory! The delighted beginners were excited. It was entertaining for Weed to watch them spend.
— The viewership has exploded. To think that viewership would rise this much from live footage of the war!
They were happy with Maylon's progress. KMC media as well as 12 other broadcast station had broadcasted Morata's war. They had footage of two perspective of Weed's war and earned a percentage from advertising with a small fee for broadcasting rights. They were rolling in money.
“The world is a truly beautiful place.”
As thanks for those that participated in the war, Weed gave out unlimited rice porridge. The lord opened up the storages and the residents and users could enjoy themselves.
— Special Ahreupen Grain Warehouse opened with free grass porridge to drink.
— Morata festival uses 50 thousand gold.
The lord was considered generous. There was money being spent everywhere. There was wild boar on barbacue, deer being baked and barrels filled with liquor.
“Drink it all!”
It was a new recipe made from a mixture of fruits and other items. It was a bit bitter from the bark and it had nutritional value from lettuce and raspberries. Weed had constantly used herbalism and cooking in the intermediate levels to research alcohol. He had finally made a new drink that was a liquor full of mysteries.
'Alcohol is money.'
Alcohol had a long shelf life and it was easy to store so it wasn't uncommon that it was a best selling product. Professional brewing was a career that was held in regard on the Continent of Versailles. Food recipes, as well as drinks were traded at high prices. It had a good taste and nutritional value so it would be a recipe that was worth a lot. Weed had created a drink with high nutitrional value with low cost materials!
“This drink is amazing!”
“Is it that good?”
The beginners could taste the amazing taste of alcohol. It was not expensive compared to a bar and it was good for the price.
“Cheers!”
“We give our thanks to Morata!”
“Cheers to the 49th beginner division!”
The beginners were smiling brightly to show their joy. The festival was going on everywhere and events of all sorts. Others were getting ready to hunt since they had gained a significant amount of experience from the war. In order to get stronger the beginners needed to hunt outside of the city. Weed thought of it as a good thing.
“As you get stronger you make me more taxes.”
The more taxes he got, the better. More users in the Morata created more positive effects in their own ways. Geomchis were off in the square consuming alcohol. The rest of the users that had survived the war were thoroughly enjoying themselves in the festival. Everyone was happy. Weed took out his lord mode and watched over the atmosphere.
“Increase city taxes by 2 % for two days!”
Ttiring!
— For two days, a temporary tax is applied.
Items have been changed to a rate from 5 to 7 % in the stores.
It was the festival season. There was a lot of stuff to buy and eat so there was a lot of consumption. He raised the tax moderately to cover the cost of his investments.
“I can earn a lot with this atmosphere.”
The reason was the Grass Porridge Cult buying things.
In the real world, nothing was free!
Chapter 9: Sculptural History
The Central Continent's Lords did not like Weed.
“Just because he was a little famous in the Continent of Magic they say that we shouldn't carelessly fight him in Royal Road.”
“Weed is the God of War? A little territory like his would be turned into ashes if it was in the Central Continent.”
“Just because he finished a couple of quests that people thought were impossible.”
Each of the Lords of the Central Continent had the same mindset from their long bloody history. They were the prominent users back in the early days of Royal Road and they had emerged victorious from several user based wars with various achievements. Each of the lords had an elite squad of at least 80 thousand units. Each of the territories that they owned were highly active with users.
“Morata is nothing.”
Resentment and jealousy for Weed!
The war enthusiasts were quite annoyed with the reputation that the user Weed had gained from his quests. They also felt nervous over the number of beginners that were in Morata.
“Sculptures that are alive and can move…so is creating a sculpture similar to summoning a monster? To think that were was such a secret in the sculpting skill.”
“With the level of growth that Morata is receiving, it might not be too far fetched that the northern lands will extend all the way down to the central continent!”
The Lords were in a rage. However, Bard Ray of the Hermes Guild simply waited for the result of the war. He deliberately did not watch the television. He went hunting as usual while waiting for news of Weed's demise. The Information Officer that was watching the Northern war reported the news. Even upon hearing the bad news that Morata won, there was no change in Bard Ray's expression.
“So it was Weed's victory.”
“Yes, Morata was not damaged much either. The Northern Alliance was incompetent in many ways and they were far from united.”
“But Morata's power was greater?”
Bard Ray did not understand what was going on. A few days ago, the stations had analyzed the reports on the power on both sides of the war. From what had been heard, the Northern Alliance should have had enough to completely overwhelm Morata.