Chapter 456 – Time-skip
A lot of things happened in the next 2 months , as Ethan and Rudra seriously discussed about the direction in which the guild needed to grow and a lot of changes were made to the guild structure in these two months.
The Elites had evolved from being just a guild anymore and they were a brand now , a household name for everyone in j.a.pan who played Omega , and naturally the most sought after guild that newbies wanted to join. Especially after the valuation of the guild rivalled the valuation of grey international.
The Elites were now one of the largest valued group in j.a.pan , having an incredible networth . Making Rudra the second richest guy in j.a.pan after Ethan Grey .
Not that Rudra cared about it , but his word carried much more weight in the country now , as even the government would go out of its way to accomodate this guild.
Many fake guilds with similar names like , Westbrooke Elites , Purplehaze Elites and even Real Elites started to pop up , as the commoners just could not resist the urge of calling themselves an elite.
However the biggest change that happened in these two months was the decision to go public in a month.
Rudra wanted to quickly fortify the region he was incharge of , and for that he needed capital , and 20 trillion dollars worth of that . Making extremely ambitious infrastructure projects and ma.s.sive army recruitment projects , Rudra wanted to push and make the most of the 10 months he still had in improving the guild.
Making ma.s.sive roadways , having patrol stations , restaurant and lodging at every 20 killometers to make travel easy and safe. To connect every single village and town under his control to the capital of Purplehaze city.
Rudra also wanted to make 2 additional forts like fort Magma , one at the border of Hazelgroove kingdom and Aquahose Kingdom , and the second only 120 kms away at the eastermost tip of where Nineclouds kingdom and Hazelgroove kingdom started their border at.
Rudra absolutely wanted to eliminate the possibility of being cornered at multiple Battlefronts in the future , hence wanted to eliminate the possibility of that happening by making these two ma.s.sive forts.
This roadway and fort development needed nearly 6 trillion dollars of money. While the reconstruction of Purplehaze city needed a trillion dollars , as Rudra planned on completely changing the city"s layout.
With the inner city as the centre , Rudra wanted to eliminate the disctrict system , dividing the entire city into 4 sectors instead. Residential sector , entertainment sector , commercial sector and industrial sector.
About 50% of the city fell under the residential sector , while the rest made up the other 50%. With the mage tower , royal library and other buildings being in the inner city and the teleportation array being in the commercial sector.
About 6 trillion more was going to be spent on military recruitment and training , and wages of this ma.s.sive military , as a Rudra wanted a minimum of 20 million tier 2 level 110 or higher soldiers within the next 8 months.
Finally 7 trillion dollars worth of welfare scheme was announced by Rudra for all the citizens that were under him , which covered everything from healthcare to building parks and sanitation , to providing subsidies on grain and cotton.
This was a releif measure as well as a token of his goodwill to the citizens and also an attempt to mask the heavy 22% tax-rate he announced alongside this economic measures.
And as expected the citizens too awed by the short term gains of the ma.s.sive economic scheme did not object to the ma.s.sive tax levied upon them.
While putting in the mathematics , these 7 trillion would be recouped within 1 year from taxes by Rudra.
Out of the 20 trillion dollars he needed to implement all these measures, 10 were being funded by Ethan Grey while Rudra had about 3 trillion worth of liquid a.s.sets to be used at discretion in terms of gold holdings and profit from the Elite lifestyle store sales.
The rest 7 trillion , Rudra was going to raise by public funding , as he and Ethan Grey would both dilute 2.5% of their share of the guild to liquidate it and list it as IPO on the stock-exchange.
Although the book value of the elites was nearly 40 trillion dollars , there was no way their stock was going to trade at book value , with Ethan expecting a grey market premium of 3.35 times the book value . Meaning nearly 138 trillion dollar valuation .
Rudra took this chance to also create a housing scheme and completely eliminate slums from Purplehaze city , as he wanted to make the city the way he liked.
Wide streets , big houses and less congestion. As the streets are lined with trees and the walls have creepers climbing on them.
A representation of what a French town would look in the early 1900"s is how Rudra wanted to build his city. While he took the royal residence for himself.
Inside the royal palace which was now Rudra"s personal residence , Rudra could not help but wonder how he should redecorate , but his mind always went to things like , he would let Ruby decide about how she would like to redocorate when he brings her here.
Rudra had not forgotten Ruby , but with him becoming a Duke , he was very close to fulfilling his promise to her. Rudra wanted to build strength quickly and launch a conquest on Nineclouds kingdom and Aquahose Kingdom and slowly expand his territory untill he became a king.
Once he became a king , Rudra would finally have the qualifications to ask for Ruby"s hand in marriage and make her his queen . Then and only then would he be a man worthy of her in his eyes , as she deserved someone like that.
Rudra set a one year time limit for himself , as he did not want Ruby to wait any longer . The moment he would build enough strength Rudra wanted to go on a spree of conquests to further expand his land.
The last change that Rudra brought was to the guild recruitment system , as the Elites academy was doubled in size , producing a batch of 60,000 graduates every 3 months , making a total of 240,000 graduates by the end of the year being added to the guildforce.
Slowly but surely the guild was expanding and shaping into a proper superpower , from the measely 300 members it once was. As now even the worlds top powers had the elites in their list as someone to be respected within the game.
Rudra felt proud of his accomplishments in this life as his hunger for more was rekindled . Having tasted success he did not want to stop just here , as if before today the dream to become the strongest guild master seemed like a pipedream and a faraway notion , it was now something he could actually achieve and wanted to at all costs.
/// Special shoutout to Adrian_Hardin for the 2000 coin gift and to Andrew_Micuci for the 1000 coin gift!
Thankyou soo much for the patronage guys , the gesture means a lot to me.
Current GT at 770 , next target for bonus : 1000 ///