"Mr. Alexander, thank you for helping us." Daniela approached Alexander and bowed. Alexander saw that she was actually sincere and just nodded in response."Mr. Alexander, it might be presumptuous of me, but are you willing to accompany us to Darren City?" Daniela said, going directly to the heart of the issue that has been bugging her.
"Hmm, well I don"t see why not. I"m headed to Darren City anyways." Alexander responded, obviously agreeing with Daniela. To be honest, Alexander was just feeling bored and he knew that traveling alone was quite boring, with around 10,000 kilometers to be accomplished.
After deciding to go along with them, he waited for them to finish salvaging the carriages that were toppled over, which took about an hour. He used this time to inquire about the current state of business in Darren City with Daniela.
Daniela frankly answered that conglomerates, such as her family"s, control the economic market. Usually, when one upstart business gains traction, it is either coerced to joining a conglomerate or they mysteriously close. Usually, one doesn"t start up a business without sufficient backing in the city.
Alexander nodded in response to Daniela"s information. With his plan of establishing a restaurant, it would be good if the business had some background support from higher people. He decided to tell his plan of establishing a restaurant to Daniela and asked her if she was willing to invest 10% in the restaurant.
Daniela, seeing this as an opportunity to get close to a powerful esper, readily agrees. After another hour of just chatting about affairs of the city, the remainder of the carriages were already fixed and Daniela"s people were ready to go.
They began their journey towards the city.
Along the way, Alexander asked Daniela why settle for the long trips and not use the maglev as well as the airships available. She responded that although they were time-saving, it was expensive to use in the trading business. When they calculated whether it would be better to spend 15 days" cost of travel to that of 1 day traveling by maglev or airship, that 1 day cost twice as much as the calculated cost of 15 days travel time, which already involved the calculation of the loss of goods.
Although the general population can ride the train, as the average population was fairly well off, with only 10% poverty rate, they wouldn"t do it on consecutive times as it was fairly expensive. Alexander saw this as something similar to an airplane in earth, like Singapore Airlines and Etihad Airlines. Average people can afford it, but they can"t really use it day to day.
The journey this time was uneventful. There were a couple of times were thieves surrounded the carriage, but I quickly killed them off and the journey to the city continued.
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On the 4th day of travel, we finally arrive at the city.
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"Mr. Banhomme, thank you for helping us during the trip. Without you, it would be quite a disaster for our company."
"No problem. Thank you as well for your cooperation." Alexander frankly replied.
"Would you like a tour of the city? I can help you find the necessary offices and areas where you can get the doc.u.ments needed for the establishment of your restaurant." Daniela offered, but Alexander rejected the offer, saying he already knew where to go first.
They bid farewell and parted ways, and Alexander immediately headed to the auction house to trade in some of the magical cores he had.
The amount he traded surprised the auction house manager that he was awarded a Gold VIP card, allowing him to get less 15% on all items auctioned and sold in the house, as well as receive 90% of the commission from auctioning items instead of 80%.
With him selling all the cores he had, he gained around 100,000 gold Oz coins. To clarify, buying a house in Oz would only cost at most, 100 gold Oz coins. Under 1 gold Oz coin is equal to 100 silver coins which is equal to 10000 copper coins. So technically, he gained 100,000,000 silver Oz coins or 10,000,000,000 copper coins.
He then went to the Central Bank and opened an account, depositing his money. Due to the amount he deposited, he was given a Platinum-rank credit card, which had fingerprint locked functions and authentication. He left around 100,000 silver coins as pocket money to use for day to day basis.
After all, even if the majority of businesses and customers were using their cards for payment, hard currency was still common for the marginalized as well as small shops.
He then went to the Public Buildings Office where he bought a large house that costs 10 Gold Oz coins, then to the Notary Office which notarized his ownership, then to the Bureau of Taxation and paid his tax for the first 5 years, then the Bureau of Immigration where he got his residential ID as permanent resident after sliding in some Gold coins. Next, Alexander went to the Business a.s.sociation Office to pay for the establishment of my restaurant business, which was 10 silver coins.
Alexander then went back to the Public Buildings Office to actually buy a building suitable for his restaurant. He chose the 4th most expensive one, a 2-storey building with an area the size of 2 large houses, ensuring high customer volume.
Lastly, Decorations, seats, tables, and cookware as well as ingredients for cooking were bought and prepared for a daily basis. His restaurant had a vibe of Chinese, Korean, j.a.panese, and Southeast-asian style design, which is to say, he was bad at designing.
He had to hire an interior designer through the bulletin system available in the city and paid 1 gold. The restaurant was then designed according to his imagination, but with an aesthetic touch to it, making it feel unique but not bad, new, but not lavish.
After 3 days of continuously renovating, and hiring servers of the food, the restaurant was ready to open.