Someday Will I Be The Greatest Alchemist?

Chapter 487: Work is coming together

Chapter 487: Work is coming together

Leaving Akane and Maria in Volton, Sophia and I returned to the Sanctuary mansion.

Thats because, Im clueless about clothing designs.

As I sat on the living room sofa, I drank the tea brewed by the maids, and Sebastian came with a huge bundle of papers.

umm, is this everything?

No, a portion of it.

Thought so

Sebastian, who came from Volton, brought with him a whole bundle of papers. Theres no way I wouldnt have known what those meant. Of course, I was just escaping reality.

Master, Ill take it to your study.

After Sebastian, Mabel came to the living room with what seemed to be a heavy stack of papers, and with a single statement said that she would bring it to my study.

Then, please attend to these as soon as possible.

Urk

Sebastian also said as such and promptly left, carrying the bunch of papers.

Not to boast or anything, but ever since I came to this world, I had developed several tools and magic devices, starting with the water pump. Aside from those, I am aware that I honestly may have dabbled in too many things, like I had diversified womens underwear in this world, constructed a city and established roads, traded with the nations in the Demon Continent, and had developed the Savage Lands.

Thanks to these, I have way too much money flowing in. But vast amounts of money come hand in hand with a lot of documents.

Initially, there were a lot but few in variety, and Papeck-san took care of tax calculations and drawing up contracts for me. But adding in an increase of sellable items and a lot more official documents concerning the autonomous Sanctuary which was unrelated to Papeck-san, so Im at a complete loss.

In a sense, managing the territory of the Sanctuary, which was comparable to a small country, was more trouble than I ever imagined.

Haa, it wont end if I dont go, huh.

I will do my best to help, as unskilled as I am.

Thank you, Sophia.

Even Sophia who wasnt good with paperwork was saying shed help, I cant postpone this forever.

I got off my butt and headed to the study.

In the study, Sebastian and Mabel were sorting through the official documents. And Sophia joined in on that.

The types of documents that I just need to look over were the sales.

There were documents that need to be reviewed before decisions could made like requests for patent licenses.

The most difficult ones were the documents with requests for items they needed, how many and how much we would sell them for.

The alcoholic drinks like distilled liquors and wine of the Sanctuary were a given, and even the fruits and medicinal herbs were in great demand.

Of course, we cant meet the demand, so many compete for the limited number we could sell.

Deciding who to sell to and who to decline, was, of course, my job.

Moreover, the issue of taxes is troublesome and complicated.

The proceeds from sales made in Volton have taxes that need to be paid to Valkyra Kingdom, but the Sanctuary was not under any country. At present, it could be said that it doesnt belong to any country.

Thats why paying taxes from proceeds one of the most troublesome things to do.

And taxes werent the only issue.

Every country wants the items from the Sanctuary and compete to buy it, but on the other hand, the Sanctuary doesnt need to buy much from other places. In other words, theres a trade imbalance. I was a salaryman, and being concerned about stuff like this after coming to this world like a politician is just

Until now, Sophia, Maria, Laeva helped settle the documents, but the amount of work recently was just unbelievable. This is me paying for my mistakes for not having thought about the consequences of my actions though.

Master, may I suggest that you hire someone specialized in business work at this time?

Sebastian couldnt bear to keep watching me be buried in a mountain of papers and made a suggestion.

Someone specialized in business work, huh I most definitely want a capable person, but its difficult because our case is peculiar.

I do think it would be more difficult than hiring maids and butlers. However, I believe the paperwork would increase even more from here on, and we would be over capacity.

Even now, its already disastrous without Maria who had always helped around, so I decided it would be better to have more people. However, someone who handles documents of great importance and flow of money needs to have more than just the skills. They must be honest and someone we can trust. I dont have the eyes to see through this at the first meeting.

Ill have to ask Undine and the others again, wont I?

If you want a highly skilled person, you wouldnt need to worry about betrayals with slaves, but

There are no slaves in the Sanctuary now. I dont want to be the only one who has a slave.

I have bought slaves, but Sophia, Maria, and Marnie[1] who became my wives, as well as Laeva who I purchased to help me with my work were all already released, so there were no slavs in the Sanctuary.

Among the people who were accepted by the Great Spirits, there will never be anyone who will fall into debt.

Excellent civil officials are scarce even in countries, it would be difficult to find one.

Even so, it would still be great if we had at least one person specialized in business.

In this world where dangers to ones life like monsters and thieves are so close, there are many outstanding military people, but very few civil officials.

King Valkyra would not have been called the Wise King without Lord Portfort.

No, we cant give up. There must be a good, skilled person lying dormant out there.

Without stopping my pen, I continued to discuss with Sebastian about hiring someone to do business work.

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Footnotes:

1. Marnie wasnt mentioned but I thought she should be here