Chapter 154: The Number

Maquerelle Lv. 26

Bartender Lv. 5

Bartender Lv. 6

[Skill Gained: Flair]

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Agent of Experience Lv. 16

Adviser Lv. 10

[Skill Gained: Privacy]

The notifications were in front of me when I woke and when I saw them, a smile appeared on my face.

Not because I had leveled up, I am not surprised by it but because I had gained the skill, I had been desiring.

Privacy.

It is a very important skill and till now; I had to depend on others or use the tools, but now I have it. With it, I would be able to talk to others with relative privacy.

The level-up provided me with two attribute points. One from my base class and the other from Adviser Class as it reached the first capstone of Level 10, and I know where I want to use them.

So, I immediately added one point to the charm, while the other into the intelligence.

Immediately, I felt their effects. I seemed to see the world with better clarity and my thoughts seemed to move a little faster.

I wanted to use the points of physical attributes, but I need to use them in the mental. I am moving above in my position, which will make me deal with powerful people.

These people have high levels and are not easy to deal with. If didn’t have enough levels and good attribute points in my mental skill, those people will eat me alive.

I have seen the power of the negotiators in the Namdar and Jalrux.

They have dominated me without even using their full power. If they had, I wouldn’t have been able to stand against them.

I opened the interface and looked at the progress.

It is good; with the privacy, I have a good balance of skills. If I looked deeply, I could even see my skills were moving toward manipulation.

I have three skills related to that.

At my current level, these skills are not that useful against the people I deal with, but when I reach level 20 in these classes, add more attribute points and mold them according to my needs.

These skills will become very useful.

These types of skills become more powerful as one level up.

My father used to say that people with manipulation type of skills are more dangerous than ones with blades. Unfortunately, he was killed by the man with the blade.

I understand what he meant.

The world is controlled by the mind, rather than the sword. Still, the sword is necessary to enforce the will of the mind.

It is true in this world and had been true on Earth too.

I closed the interface and got out of my bed before walking into the bathroom, where I freshened up and showered.

Today, I had taken a break from the training. I had slept at the time when I woke up.

I have less than two hours before I need to go to the office for my meeting with Count Darrow. It won’t take long and after that, I could do the thing I wanted to since I had returned from the baronies.

I walked out of the shower and changed into the suit, before eating breakfast, waiting for me.

Click!

Fifteen minutes later, I opened the door and walked into my office. There are five girls waiting and got up as I entered.

“Master Silver,” they greeted.

“Ladies,” I said and sat down in my seat.

Aside from Carla and Margaux, there is Lola, Andrea, and Della also present in the room.

They all look well-rested and beautiful.

“So, have we been able to reach our target?” I asked, feeling quite nervous and excited in my heart. A lot of things will depend on how much I will be making with the addition of the new girls to the establishment.

“We are able to go a little, above that,” replied Margaux with a smile and slid the file toward me.

I opened the file with my heart beating like a drum. Soon, the first page came into view and I begin to read it with Fast Reading.

What I read shook my heart, but I didn’t say anything. Instead, I flipped the page and read it before flipping again; one by one, I read through every page, till I finished reading the entire file.

It took me a few seconds to calm my wildly beating heart and turned to the girls.

“You all did a wonderful job, especially you, Margaux,” I said to the woman with platinum blond hair.

“Thank you for your kind words, Master Silver,” she said politely. “They are truth Margaux,” I said.

This time, I was not able to focus on the establishment as I have done in the past.

Most of the responsibility had fallen on Margaux’s shoulders, and she did a wonderful job.

“Master Silver, Hatan wants to talk to you,” she said, with her expression turning serious.

“How is that, poor girl?” I asked.

The young girl was from the second batch and had turned eighteen two months ago, before debuting yesterday; it is regretful that she had suffered what she did yesterday.

“She is feeling good now,” replied Margaux. “Ask her to come in after we finished with our business,” I said.

We discuss a few things, especially minor changes, I wanted to make, after observing things yesterday. Especially the band; it was good when I interviewed them, but yesterday, they didn’t impress me much.

Their performance was slightly better than the band we were using before, but paying three times less price.

A few minutes later, we finished, and the three of them left, leaving only Carla and Margaux in the room.

Click!

The door hadn’t closed when a petite girl walked inside, looking nervous and scared.

“Take a seat, dear,” said Carla, asking her to take a seat between her and Margaux. She did nervously, before turning to me.

“First, let me start by apologizing to you. You shouldn’t have gone through what you have gone through yesterday,” I apologized, which seemed to surprise the young woman a lot.

It was our responsibility to protect them from such incidents, but we had failed.

“Y..you didn’t need to a..pologise Master Silver,” she said stutteringly. “I do,” I said and sighed, regretfully.

Most who do these things are from merchant cities; those bastards fear nothing and nor I could do anything to them. The ones from the empire and surrounding cities are more well-behaved.

Especially after I become an adviser.

“So, what do you want to talk about?” I asked her after a few seconds of silence. Her body had become even more tense, and she looked at Margaux, who nodded at her.

“I..I don’t want to work in the e..establishment. I want to serve my contract a different way,” she said and looked at me with fear and hope.

Seeing the fear, I felt sad. It seemed like I haven’t earned their trust enough

Though it is not surprising, no whore would dare to say to her boss, she didn’t work as a whole. It will get them an intense beating.

They are whores, and as long as they are brothel; they have to do just that. There is no other option.

“It is not a problem.” I agreed and could see all the tension leaving her body and the fear disappearing from her eyes.

“As I had said before, it is your choice.”

“I will give you two weeks to decide, to suggest the way you want to serve your contract or we will decide for you,’ said and could hope to burst into her tears.

“Gardening. I want to do gardening,” she answered quickly before her cheeks reddened.

I couldn’t help but smile seeing that.

I am not surprised by her choice; she was one of three girls learning gardening. The report says, she has a talent for it, but talent is not enough; one needs to do hard work too.

I will see whether she had what she takes, or I chose the other job for her, which she will have to till her contract end.

“You will start tomorrow,” I said and turned to Carla. “Inform, the gardener of this,” I said, and she nodded.

“Thank you, Master Silver,” said the girl, and I smile.

A few seconds later, she left with Margaux, leaving me and Carla alone in the office.

“Fifteen million crowns. 50% more than we had estimated,” she said, and I looked at the file.

The establishment had made fifteen million, three hundred and seven thousand crowns in total.

With all the expenses, including the taxes, commission girls, salaries of staff and even replenishing what we spent; I will still have half of it in my pocket to do what I want.

“I want to see whether we could keep earning this every day,” I said, looking at the exciting number on the file. “If we looked at our past earning pattern, it shouldn’t be a problem,” she replied with a smile.

“I really hope so,” I said. I have plans and with what Ina will bring out, with her trip, I will have some serious cash in my hand in a week.

“So, what are you planning to do with it?” she asked directly.

She knows my vision, but not the details in between; especially the ideas I had when I was in Navr.

“Something you will know soon,” I said to her, and she glared at me, but didn’t say anything further.

I read the files, including the ones that had information, before putting them in a file. I decided to use the files; they are much better than diaries.

It comes with risks, but I will accept them for greater efficiency.

Soon, I was done with the work and took the newspaper and after a few minutes, a frown couldn’t help, but appear on my face.

“Were you expecting to see something?” she asked. “Yes,” I replied, and she arched her brow in question, but I didn’t answer and checked the other two papers, but they too had not had what I wanted to see.

The count had promoted me, but there is no mention of it in the papers. It is an important posting. It should have been in the papers.

The only reason I could think of it, not being in the papers, is because the Count didn’t put it in them.

I put down the papers and calmed my mind. There must be a reason behind this and I will know after I met with the Count today.

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