Inheriting a Lost Bloodline, My First Task is to have heirs?!

Chapter 93: Chapter 93 - Time flies when one is busy

I have lived on a routine schedule for a month now. I have occasional meetings with my team to guide the course of the money-making projects we have as well as talks about how to improve the city as a whole. I do some adventurer tasks every weekend too and now I am almost due for a rank upgrade. After doing tasks for a few weeks, my adventurer points is now at 450/500. I have been earning a steady amount of income from the room of questions too by answering about five questions whenever I’m outside the academe. For some reason, it seems that the questions stuck on the board in that room doesn’t lessen one bit even when I answer an average of at least ten per weekend. I am not complaining about the amount of questions though, it was just weird. On the other hand, the more questions there are, the more money I can earn anyways. I also continued cooking in the community kitchen and have become better friends with the people from the slum area and the stall owners.

The buildings in the property are fully furnished now and I have planted all the plants, shrubs, herbs and grass that I want in the places I wanted them to be. I improved the security of the stone fence we created and of course, put an attack and defense barrier in each individual stall and building. I did a little tweak on self-cleaning and self-repair magic as well to maintain the place. Don’t want my investments to turn to rubble with just a little fight or trouble in the area. We also started hiring appropriate employees for the shops. I entrusted my team to do it since they will be the ones managing and working with the people that they’ll choose. I also asked them to hire retired soldiers as guards for the place as well for safety purposes and also to give them a source of income.

As for being a student in the academe, I have studied diligently and finished some of my basic elective courses for alchemy, cooking, farming and botany. I immediately took the apprentice certification exams afterwards since that was my goal from the beginning. I was able to pass all four of them easily. Ioannis is also an apprentice cook and farmer now just like me. I have enrolled in the intermediate classes right after the exams so I will be eligible to take the next level of certification exams after finishing those classes. Ioannis and I started pushing for these due to the our discovery that additional points can be received every month once we have the certifications. It was like being paid a salary or an allowance just by having a certain job certification. As for us, we have the choice to practice or do the job or not. Since we are still students, we are actually free not to work at all but still get an allowance any way. My long term goal is reaching the master level as soon as possible. This will in turn provide me higher academe point allowances every month. As for Ioannis, he is only vying to get to the master level in his fighting and self-defense classes. To make up for it, he is planning to enroll on other electives and take apprentice level exams for them. He went for quantity over quality to make up for it. As for me, I will go for both quality and quantity. To support the fact that I have knowledge of several jobs, I decided to take some other elective courses in painting, clothes making (sewing) and geosciences (study of minerals, stones, gemstones and precious stones). Since we have already made a deal with the headmaster to cancel off the debt that Ioannis needed to pay for his freedom from the academe, our goal as a couple changed to more of saving more points to convert it to as much money as we can by the time we leave this academe. As per agreement, the academe will take care of Ioannis’ fees for all the classes he is taking while in this academe. Thinking about this, I don’t have many things to spend my points on as of now. Since this is the case, Ioannis and I started thinking of getting a bigger living space than the dorm room we are already in. There are indeed options to get a villa inside the academe for personal use but that has to be rented via points. Most of the students living in those villas are ones that are already in their second year since they have been earning points for quite some time and they can afford it. It will be very shocking for the others to have a freshman like me live in the villa but I value our security and comfort over anything that other people are going to say. I told Ioannis that living in a villa won’t be so bad and we can even entertain visitors or even rent out some of the extra rooms to the spoiled children of the rich and elite. He readily agreed with this plan. We are planning to move to the villa we have chosen by the end of this quarter which is roughly two months from now.

Recently, I have also fully furnished my personal chambers at the library to my liking. I barely had a bed and a few tables and chairs before but now, I designed it to include areas for resting (a fluffy and comfy bed for two), the studying area with good quality wooden tables and cushioned chairs, I set up a cabinet for food and cooking ingredients storage and another area for my experiments for alchemy and food recipes so I technically have a mini science lab and a mini kitchen that has a complete set up. We also installed a bathroom for our hygiene and physiological needs. Since only the two of us can enter, nobody would think that me and Ioannis have set it up like our personal bunker. I can’t help but be thankful for the librarian again for assigning us the biggest study room she could find.

As for my experiments, I already have the apprentice certification as a chef and alchemist but technically, my knowledge is already at the master level so I started creating several products from my memories back from earth. I think I was also somewhat influenced by the fact that I miss the modern products that I used in my daily life especially the ones for hygeine and some of the food items I am craving for. I also thought of some products that men use (We have for men and for women products, right?). For now, I will simply keep them in my personal storage space as prototypes for further improvement once I find higher quality raw materials. Once I get a hang of it, I will definitely patent it and start selling them. The products I have listed and started working on include hair shampoo, hair conditioner, shower gel, body wash, bath bombs, toothpaste, lotion, perfume, facial wash, mouth wash, face cream, lipstick, liquid foundation, nail polish, dishwashing liquid, laundry detergent and softeners, rubbing alcohol, iodine solution, bleaching agents, anti-bacterial solutions and even deodorants for the armpits and even foot deodorizing powder. As for food products, I am thinking of better dried versions of meat, seafood, fruits, vegetables, edible fungus and even noodles that can be kept during winter. The idea of canning food also came into my mind but I have to find a good source of the can itself first. I also thought of different type of sauces, seasonings and condiments that do not exist in this world as well as the ever so reliable meat broth powder that I always use back when I was living alone. Who even has time to boil down animal bones to make soup all the time? And lastly, alcoholic drinks are needed like beer, fruit wine, tequila, gin, brandy, vodka and rum! Ale and beer are quite popular here but that’s because they have not tasted anything better! These are of course not my original ideas but if I sell them first, they are as good as mine in this realm, right? I don’t see anyone using it here so it is almost the same as me inventing it in this world.

As for raw materials, like the scents for the perfume, the fruits for the wine and other materials, I have a whole notebook of lists of the right ingredients of each of the products I wanted to create as well as the step-by-step processes on how to make them. Eventually, I might need to set up a factory or a laboratory for these things since I can’t keep creating all these products on my own. I want to be rich and I understand it starts with a lot of hardwork but I don’t plan to do that for the next decade, slaving away in the corporation I built. I can just hire talented and trust-worthy people to work for me and make sure to pay them well so they don’t quit their jobs. That’s a far more efficient and a better way to use resources specifically, money. How will I have children if I am slaving away at work? Not that I can’t mix business with pleasure or do a quickie or two but, you know what I mean. Which brings us back to the fact that I really have to explore this world more so I can find more men- *coughs* raw materials for my creations. I couldn’t help but laugh since even if I changed the things I need to find in the previous sentence, it still sounded totally green and dirty. Men are raw materials too, that is for creating babies.

As of today, I could say that this day was very productive and kind of fulfilling on my part. I was able to accomplish a lot from my checklist. I am also starting to see the fruits of my hardwork even if it was just a little bit. I am dead tired everyday though. For someone who has a mystique’s body, this is rare so you can imagine what my level of tired is compared to a human’s definition of tired. I think I need to drink a revitalizing potion today or maybe even two of them before coming home. You know what, let’s do that for my exhausted mind and body. I think even my soul is tired. At last, I would finally be able to sleep early today or so I thought...