Dubois made his way over to Annixon"s table, "Master Annixon…""Annixon is fine. What can I help you with today, Marquis?"
"A simple meet. I wish to converse with you in private. I hear I have to ask you personally for that."
"Well, truth be told you would have to go through her, my a.s.sistant." He pointed towards Anastacia. Anastacia smiled and nodded, "I handle his day to day activities, even though he neglects it from time to time."
"That was only the past four days! How long are you going to keep it against me!? My apologies, if you cannot find her you could also speak with Sinah. She is my second a.s.sistant, sort of. She is more in charge of intelligence. Then there is Athena, she is in charge of security and oversees Physical side of the School. Naitra over there is in charge of development as well as D"verg over there. The little one next to him is his a.s.sistant. Maania over there, is the jack of all trades, but is also in charge of Health and Agriculture. This here is Juliza, she"s in charge of the Technical side of Schooling, and Finally, Amara. She is in charge of the Arts in Schooling, which also puts her in charge of recreation."
They all nodded as they were introduced, "I have one more, but his on a trip, doing trade. I am not sure as to when he will return. It will still be a few weeks."
"You are a well organised outfit. Are they all n.o.bility?"
"Yes, my n.o.bility."
"Of course. In any case, when will it be convenient to speak?"
Annixon looked towards Anastacia. She took out a book, "You first need to meet with the Baron, for obvious reasons. After which you have a party to attend, after which you need to spend some time with your advisors."
Ah, there it is. Annixon smiled and shook his head. Guess he will have to do the Baron as quickly as possible, "Meet me at the Baron"s house. I can arrange for a private room. Don"t worry about eavesdroppers. I will magically secure the room myself."
"Guess it will have to do, then. See you soon, Master Annixon."
Annixon nodded, as the Marquis left.
He decided to meet the Baron quickly, the Marquis could be his ticket into the Emperor"s inner circle.
He went towards the baron and met him in his private quarters. There were a few chests of gold Ducats in his room.
The Baron smiled, "As promised, a grand total of 1 110 000 million ducats. Enough to feed an army of 10 000 almost indefinitely."
"Did you take your cut?"
"Indeed, it amounted to 110 000 ducats which leaves you with 1 000 000 ducats."
"Is there no way to make turn these into smaller amounts of coins, we are talking about a million here."
"You could always exchange it for emperor coins, which is worth a thousand ducats."
"That would still amount to a thousand. Do you really think the emperor would give me that many. Truth be told is I don"t think there is a lot of people who owns these stupid amounts of coin."
"While I don"t think the emperor will give you a thousand coins due to your relatively unknown status, he might give you about a hundred."
"You do know this requires me to create a dedicated room form money alone. That is not a favoured idea of mine, security wise."
"I will personally be present to bring it over."
"You know what will happen if even a single ducat is missing?"
"Yeah, I rather not incur the wrath of a man that can take down a beast of the decay as well as the necromancer possessed by six decay hunters. The Marina Family is already plating with fire in that regards."
"Good, I will have Athena escort as well, as she will be overseeing the operations."
"I still need to attend a meeting before the party. Do you currently have any empty room I could use?"
"Of course, I will have one of my servants show you the way."
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"Also send Marquis DuBois over if you would. He wanted to speak with me in private."
Kedrick nodded as the servant took him to an empty room. He didn"t have to wait long for DuBois to show up.
He entered the room as Annixon immediately used script to sound proof the room, "Alright, now why is it that you wanted to speak to me so badly?"
"Master Annixon, you are the one who found the secret to extract the Robium?"
"Why does that matter to you?"
"It is a simple question. A question that could probably give you your t.i.tle."
"Sorry, I am not interested in t.i.tles. Perhaps something else."
"You are withholding secrets. That isn"t going to go over so well with the emperor."
"What can you truly do? There is only one man in existence that can actually get the metal from the ore. Risk him dying with torture or a.s.sa.s.sination?"
"I doubt you are the only person who can do it. You must have had a witness."
"Of course I did, but that person is no battle mage and doesn"t know scripting like I do, or even enough mana to pull it off. See where I am going with this?"
"What is it you want?"
"Temporary allies, and someone who can get me into contact with the emprorer."
"Temporary allies? Strange request, what can one get in return."
"A custom made super weapon. Probably the most powerful weapon in all of Landenium. A weapon probably worth millions of Ducats."
The proposal was seriously enticing for the Marquis, "Okay, it sounds like a good deal. What do I have to do?"
"You have the ear of the emperor. I need all n.o.bles to stay out of the coming conflict with the Marina Family."
"Marina Family. They are considered one of the twelve great families. Their influence is far reaching."
"But you can still make it happen?"
"Of course, I can. I might not be a duke, but I do have the ear of the emperor as you say, but you would require aid in the coming conflict then. You just want us to stay out of it."
"Yes, I intend to take the Marina family, and everything they are worth."
(Author note: The ducat was based on the doubloon, a currency of the pirate era. One ducat would then be worth four hundred American dollars in modern currency, which means Annixon in the story is worth a total of 400 000 000 dollars after just one auction. That should give you an idea on just how rich he became after this short stint.)