Ascension To Divine Throne - Chapter 82

Chapter 82: Chapter 82: Money-Making Plan
Chapter 82: Money-Making Plan

Leaving Angela outside to find a place to sleep on her own, William closed the door to the underground laboratory.

The recent completion of the “Azrael’s Tomb” dungeon had greatly boosted William’s strength. Not only did he break through to the Silver rank himself, but he also gained the assistance of Angela, a Gold-tier boss.

This meant that William now had confidence in surviving the assassination at the upcoming Annual Holy Festival in over a month’s time.

With the power of a Silver-tier mage, even a Gold-tier assassin wouldn’t be able to kill William in one strike if he was prepared.

Plus, Angela was there too!

William’s biggest dilemma now was poverty!

Yes, that’s right, William was very poor, extremely poor.

With all the “resources” of the Cain family squandered by his predecessor, William was now desperately short of money.

You see, mages are big spenders.

Unlike most other professions where strength can be gained through physical training and skill honing, a mage’s strength comes not only from increasing magical power and improving combat skills but also, more crucially, from acquiring more powerful “knowledge.”

For mages, knowledge is the foundation of all power.

And this, of course, requires financial support.

Spellcasting materials, research equipment, magic books, and so on, all require William to spend a lot of money to purchase.

Especially since William’s promotion to Silver, he had many new ideas but was frustrated by the lack of resources to realize them.

In theory, William, as a mage, had many ways to make money, whether by becoming a mentor for other mages or completing mercenary contracts for money, but all of these would consume a lot of William’s time.

And now, time was what William lacked the most.

Whether it was the assassination at the Annual Holy Festival in over a month’s time or the subsequent series of major events, William felt an underlying sense of urgency.

Considering everything, William chose the path of civilian enchanting goods.

William had his reasons:

Firstly, this path was feasible and highly profitable.

In his past life, a player who innovated special magical runes made a huge fortune, becoming the wealthiest player, surpassing even the professional guilds.

Once William’s business in civilian enchanting goods developed, the market for these goods would reach millions of gold coins. And this was just within the Fis Kingdom; other countries had similar demands.

However, the subsequent developments were unrelated to that player.

Nevertheless, William wasn’t completely helpless. With such a vast market, William certainly couldn’t monopolize it entirely, but by rallying allies and sharing the profits, William was confident he could secure his fair share of the pie.

Secondly, it required relatively less of William’s time.

Although initially, William would need to invest a significant amount of effort, once the production and sale of civilian enchanting goods were on track, it wouldn’t require much of William’s time. William’s good friends like Mora could easily handle the business.

Moreover, studying magical runes was already one of William’s plans, an essential path in arcane research.

Through practicing with these simpler runes, William could gradually progress to learning and advancing in the more profound fields.

Thirdly, William’s current network of contacts could be put to good use.

Mora’s family owned the Golden Vine Chamber of Commerce, while Jason’s family controlled the Canlight United Chamber of Commerce. With cooperation established, they could ensure the sale channels and provide shelter for the civilian enchanting products.

As for the “technical support” for rune development, there were Bernie and his teacher, the rune master Joseph Dahr.

William had some new ideas that required Joseph Dahr’s assistance.

With all this in mind, there were many things waiting for William to do!

William crumpled up the parchment roughly inscribed with his civilian enchanting goods plan and burned it.

Then, he took out a new piece of parchment and began to contemplate.

The assassination incident at the Annual Holy Festival meant his personal safety was no longer a concern, but this matter was not yet concluded.

Until William fully understood the plans of the second prince, Julius, he wouldn’t rest easy.

Julius’s choice to assassinate William during the Annual Holy Festival, where all the noble ministers of the capital were present, puzzled him.

It couldn’t just be bad luck, could it?

Even so, Second prince had arranged for Camus to test William multiple times. William wouldn’t tolerate any threat to his existence.

Where could there be a breakthrough?

William was certain that Julius had been planning this for a long time. With only a little over a month until the festival, apart from actions like purchasing food and weapons, other plans might already be well underway.

William reviewed the major events that had occurred in Canlight City over the past few months but found no usable opportunities.

He put down his pen, furrowing his brow.

Would he have to wait for them to come to him?

Camus had been “sent away” by him. Julius probably wouldn’t give up directly and would send others to test him.

If all else failed, would he have to expose hiss plan at the festival?

But someone as cunning as Julius wouldn’t leave any evidence connected to that assassin.

Doing so would only cause trouble for himself, and he wouldn’t be able to explain where he got the information.

Army, chamber of commerce, manpower.

William wrote down these words on paper.

After a moment of contemplation, he circled the chamber of commerce.

It seemed he could only try starting from here!

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In a secret location in Canlight City,

A man with an ordinary appearance bowed and saluted towards the front, saying:

“Lord Robert, I’ve already searched Camus’s home and academy, but I couldn’t find him.”

“According to his classmates, Camus hasn’t been seen in the academy for many days.”

Sitting in the secret chamber was naturally Robert, who had met with the second prince last time. At this moment, he listened to the report from his subordinate with a furrowed brow, feeling somewhat vexed.

What was Camus up to? Playing hide and seek at this time?

Delaying matters for the lord, let’s see how he deals with it!

Robert carefully inquired if there were any other discoveries from his subordinate. After confirming there was no other valuable information, he waved his hand to dismiss the subordinate.

After the second prince instructed Robert last time, he took this matter to heart.

Originally, he planned to wait for Camus to show up again and talk to him, but when Camus didn’t show up for two consecutive scheduled meetings, Robert realized something was amiss and sent his subordinate to find Camus.

But Camus had vanished!

Robert was somewhat annoyed. Could it be that Camus, this guy, ran away because he couldn’t complete the mission? It simply didn’t make sense!

Even if the task wasn’t completed, at most, Lord Julius would be disappointed in him. But to defect?

Or did something happen to him?

Regardless! The tasks assigned by Lord Julius must be completed. It’s the foundation for all subsequent plans.

It seems I’ll have to arrange this myself!

William Cain?

I’d like to see what you’re capable of!

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Thank you for your support, everyone.

By the way, does anyone have any character art they find attractive for the main character and various characters?

I’m not satisfied with the ones I found.

If anyone has good-looking ones, you can post them on the comments or my discord.

I tried generating images using AI, but still i find somethings missing. So I need some for reference. I will make an auxillary chapter for character description.

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