Chapter 209 Netherworld Bakery
"Hehe, that's great." Jiang You looked at several veterans who were treating their legs and hands, and he couldn't help but feel fortunate again that this was a magical world.
Although magic is not omnipotent and has various limitations, since it can transcend the barrier of life and death, regenerating broken limbs and reconnecting broken bones are not completely hopeless.
As long as there's hope, people will continue to strive towards it. Technology or magic, the difference between the two doesn't seem that great. A small expenditure of money is the most insignificant price.
Simply taking a portion of the veterans' profits and distributing them as wages and bonuses would allow them to afford medical treatment, and would also allow a large amount of money to flow into the market, continuously circulating within the territory and creating greater economic value. The benefits brought about by this would be far greater than if these gold coins were to gather dust and be sealed in the nobles' treasury.
Just like water vapor evaporates from the sea, is blown to the land by the wind, turns into rain to nourish the earth, and finally becomes rivers, lakes, seas or groundwater to flow into the ocean again... Money also needs to flow from one person to another like water, so as to create more happiness in this territory.
Ever since she started dating Andrei and founded the Lich Catering Group, Jiang You felt that her perspective had improved significantly. Honestly, she quite liked this feeling, as if she were playing a game of lords, where she was the ruler of this land.
——Well, although to be precise, the one who holds the land and the title is Andre, and Jiang You is just his military advisor, but generally speaking... it doesn’t matter!
Jiangyou secretly withdrew her head from the courtyard wall and continued to walk towards the workshop. Before going home, she planned to visit the textile workshop.
If we talk about people whose lives have been dramatically changed during this period, apart from the disabled veterans who have been newly employed and gradually started to resume treatment that has been delayed for so many years, it must be the cicadas who moved to the west city of Eston.
Under Alexi's guidance, these spider spirits had gradually established themselves in the western part of Eston. They worked in the textile workshop during the day, producing the various clothing, shoes, and hats needed by Jiangyou—primarily work clothes and fitness kits for the employees—and spent their nights sleeping in the dormitory above the textile workshop and adjacent to it.
Most of these women came alone to explore the way. They would not make the important decision to move their families to the West City of Eston until they had actually experienced that the hidden dangers of violent disorder had been eliminated.
Jiangyou has always been generous to his employees. Of course, when it comes to a unique species like the Kabuto, he can't be less generous. If the soul fire supply isn't sufficient, they could easily go berserk due to lack of soul energy, causing damage to the store, himself, and his colleagues.
However, after discovering that offerings made from soul grass could also replenish the spider spirits' soul energy, Jiang You's pressure was greatly reduced. After all, while there were many patrons willing to provide soul fire, only Boss You was the lich who could truly draw out soul fire. Procuring enough soul fire to feed all the spider spirits was a considerable workload.
Jiangyou is a boss who will slack off if he can be lazy. Since he can rely on the production line to make purple-black soul grass offerings, there is no need for him to work himself - but after seeing the killing effect of the magicians' strange soul fire on the enemy, Jiangyou thinks it is still necessary to make some strange soul fire for self-defense... Well, occasionally he can also make some delicious emotional soul fire to satisfy his craving.
The Netherworld Bakery is located right next to the bakery at the corner of the alley. Aside from using Soul Grass as its primary ingredient, most of the processes are similar to those of a normal bakery. However, after the Netherworld pastries are baked, ordinary people can't smell the aroma; only Netherworld creatures are drawn to them.
Therefore, all entrances and exits of this shop, as well as its windows and shelves, were sealed with dragon crystals that could keep out Netherworld creatures. Only legitimate customers who met the requirements could purchase goods from the store staff. Considering that some Netherworld creatures did not possess the currency used by living people, this bakery also accepted a variety of other payment methods.
For example, Netherworld creatures can exchange soul fire for Netherworld pastries, or they can accept quests on the shop's quest board. Some of these quests are posted by Boss You, with the reward being Netherworld pastries; others are posted by nearby residents or vendors, with the reward being a universal currency that can be used to purchase pastries after redemption.
The shop even has a clerk who specializes in identifying antiques and jewelry, specifically responsible for appraising the various strange and bizarre treasures brought by the ghostly creatures. Apparently, many ghosts will willingly pay for their own burial objects in order to enjoy the offerings.
Boss You thus secured more Netherworld creatures as his employees. The Spider Weavers, capable of violent transformation, could even be considered the most normal customers of the Netherworld Bakery. Of course, a shop this 'dangerous', having to deal with a large number of dangerous customers, also required strong staff.
Besides the baker in the kitchen at the back, the staff at the front counter, who faced "customers," were all highly skilled: a relic explorer skilled in appraising antiques and jewelry, a magician from the School of Magic who specialized in studying the Netherworld and its creatures, and a thousand-year-old ghost... The latter's "salary" consisted simply of any unsold goods from the Netherworld Bakery each day. In other words, the cost of hiring them was quite low.
With these influential 'big guys' around, the opening of the Netherworld Bakery went very smoothly, and they've now developed a number of loyal old customers: not to mention the East City Earthbound Undead who need professional knights to make purchases and deliveries, and the spider spirits from the textile mill across the street who also visit every day... There are also many wandering ghosts who only reveal their true form from the Netherworld when purchasing goods.
Therefore, to the uninformed, this 'Netherworld Bakery' seemed deserted, with only a few knights and cicadas arriving daily to pick up their goods. But in reality, Netherworld creatures invisible to ordinary people were constantly coming and going. Notes appeared on the task board, and all sorts of strange, ancient objects clanked and landed in front of the appraiser's counter. As each batch of purple-black offerings was baked, the clerk would take them out and pass them into the void, disappearing...
It is truly a shop that is haunted all the time.
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