Guild Boss's Ambition

Witch.

Facing this completely unfamiliar Miss Lan Nong, this term suddenly emerged in my mind, making her look more youthful and charming in my eyes. However, she is not a flower that takes root, but an elusive shadow. But since I want to get her help, I have to put forward a reasonable condition.

In other words, it's a game of valuation.

As an operator, I certainly want to hire this employee at the lowest price, and conversely, Miss Lan Nong also hopes to gain the greatest benefit. Both of us should have an acceptable bottom line in our hearts. Once this bottom line is exceeded, the transaction will not be established and will eventually end in a break!

Therefore, if I can make a bid that is closest to the other party’s bottom line within two chances, that will be my victory.

But that is by no means an easy task.

"Please give me some time to think about it," I asked her.

"You have fifteen minutes." She did give me a pitifully short time.

I suddenly became anxious and uneasy. Even a powerful figure like the Royal Knight Commander had never made me feel a heavy sense of crisis. But at this moment, the unarmed Miss Lannong made me sweat profusely, because the stakes in this game were not just my own life, it might be the key to the survival of the Stone House.

"Calm down now! Meng'er!"

I yelled at myself in my heart, trying to make my brain clearer, and stuffed all the salaries of various poster girls on the market into my mind for comparison and analysis. What made me deeply frustrated was that the amnesiac girl in front of me could not be directly compared with other poster girls. In other words, her value was not that of a simple poster girl!

"Perhaps, I should think of it from the perspective of a screwdriver—"

The first question I have to consider is how much profit can this new product called screwdriver bring me?

Since there was no actual sales data to refer to, I had to use alcoholic products with similar properties to estimate the price and sales volume of screwdrivers. Furthermore, if the ideas in the proposal could be implemented smoothly, based on my experience, Stone House could at least make an additional profit of 50 gold per month. Obviously, this business was like a golden bird egg falling from the sky!

However, the main selling point of the screwdriver is still its uniqueness. If I cannot control its creator, its uniqueness will most likely disappear due to Miss Lannong's job-hopping. The worst case scenario is that all competitors in the same industry will receive a proposal identical to the one I have. In this way, even if there is a new product, the Stone House's customer flow will not increase much due to other advantages.

Yes, I must keep Miss Lannon.

At this point, I had my own calculations in mind, and I made an offer: "A short-term contract for one year as a poster girl with a monthly salary of thirty gold coins. During the term of employment, you are not allowed to leak any information about the screwdriver products, otherwise it will be considered a breach of contract, and you will not receive any compensation."

However, even though she was offered a whopping monthly salary of thirty gold coins, the amnesiac girl in my eyes was not moved at all. She still kept that tepid smile. She was silent for a while and simply replied, "No, I deserve more."

"This amnesiac girl is too greedy!"

I immediately frowned at her greed and said coldly, "Although it's very despicable, you have shown me the formula of the screwdriver with your own eyes. Even if you take the formula to other adventurer guilds, you will never get a better treatment than here. If I were you, I would definitely agree to this price immediately!"

She was stunned for a moment, holding her forehead as if she was about to faint, and shouted in a disappointed tone: "I can't believe you are angry with me? Don't you realize the nature of this game yet? Dear President Ehard, you can obviously trick me into buying a whole fried rabbit that I can't finish, but why can't you see through this simple trick?"

"I don't care about you..."

I was almost about to burst into a swearing out loud because of the sarcastic tone, but at this moment, Berlani, who was standing behind the amnesiac girl, secretly raised her index finger to my lips and gave me an urgent warning look -

Fortunately, I had that flash of inspiration and finally realized the mystery of this game.

"Xiao Lan, shouldn't this game be called Two-Price, but One-Price?"

Xiao Lan smiled slightly, took off the demonic nature that she pretended to have, and said sympathetically: "Yes, no matter how much you bid the first time, I will only ask for more. Therefore, the first bid itself actually has no meaning, but you made it have extra meaning, letting me, who doesn't understand the market, know my minimum value - at least 30 gold coins per month."

Yes, Xiaolan is right...

I shouldn't be angry with her...

Because I should be more angry about my own stupidity!

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20. The game seems to be more interesting (Little Blue)

(Ulu-Lannon)

Originally, I planned to let the Miss President simply apologize and be done with it, but because it felt a bit too boring, I added a game called Two-Price Game. I didn't expect that the Miss President would take this game seriously, and I also got into the game. However, since I have already promised Berlani, no matter what the result of this game is, I will still stay in the stone house.

"So, what's your second bid? You don't have much time left," I asked her.

The failure of the first bid seemed to have dealt a heavy blow to President Ehard. However, in order to respect the nature of this gambling game, I continued to press on and urged the president in a deep voice to make a decision as soon as possible, so that the tight time would cause her to make more wrong decisions, thereby increasing the extent and possibility of my target price being overestimated by her.

However, things did not develop as I imagined.

"Indeed, Xiaolan, you are right."

There were only five minutes left. President Ehard slowly raised her head, as if she had already won the game. She smiled confidently again and said loudly: "Of course the second offer cannot be only thirty gold. You really deserve more, so much that even if we use the funds of the entire Stone House, we cannot fully control it. So, I have thought of another way."

Then, my eyes suddenly blurred. She gave me a table bang with one hand, lowered her head and stared into my eyes like a hero, and asked with a smile: "I will give you one-fifth of the stone house now, and you stay to manage your own assets, how about it?"

“I…I I…I I I…”

Facing the beauty so close at hand, my virginity system suddenly crashed, and the heat dissipation and thermostatic components of the entire machine also went out of control, making my face red and my speech incoherent: "I... I have only known you, the president, for less than a week, and you are giving me your property so quickly. Isn't the progress between us... a bit too fast?"

"Not fast! I really can't live without you! Blue!"

At this time, she held my two hands tightly again, holding them against her chest like treasures. Listening to her passionate words and feeling her longing eyes, I immediately concluded that I had lost the ability to resist. What a bullshit gambling game of one price and two prices, it was completely no match for the foul tactics of this woman in front of me...

Seduction and the like are truly shameful!

What’s even more shameful is that a useless old man like me obviously falls for it.

"Um……"

I responded in a mosquito-like voice, nodded slightly, and agreed to her request.

So, she immediately showed a childlike bright smile like a man who had successfully proposed to me, and was so happy that she hugged me in her arms. Then, in front of the guests, she played the spinning game that could scare single people to death. I was so embarrassed that I could only lie on her shoulders and didn't dare to raise my head for a moment. It was really too embarrassing...

Obviously, I am the male party!

Why is it that my current role is completely that of a little bottom?

There must be some misunderstanding!

No, it must be an age thing!

but!

"Miss President's breasts are really soft and big..."

"And your hair smells great too. What brand of shampoo do you use?"

Sadly and regrettably, in the face of unprecedented benefits, the so-called male self-esteem seemed to be worthless. However, under the influence of the remaining moral sense, I still struggled to break free from President Ehard's embrace, put on a serious look with my face that should have been red, and made a final gesture of reserve: "Don't be happy yet! Before the contract is signed, I am not your employee."

"Yes, yes, then let's sign the contract quickly!" The president touched my head and said with a smile.

Sadly, after the antics just now, I have obviously lost all my dignity. Not only President Ehard, who always treats me as a child, but now even Berlane's calm eyes are faintly smiling at me. Oh! God, even if this body is really a little childish now, I don't want to be regarded as a professional cute person by the world!

"Damn, professional! Uru, you must show your professional marketing skills!"

In order to restore my image and to prevent acting cute and childish from becoming my profession forever, I shook my body, found a one-foot white paper, a three-inch feather pen, and five ounces of ink, and then I concentrated on writing and wrote more than two thousand words on the spot.

"It's done. Do you think this is okay?"

After checking the entire document twice and confirming that there were no mistakes or omissions, I confidently slapped the contract on the table. Seeing this, President Ehard and Senior Berlane both lowered their heads to take a closer look. Half a minute later, the president's daughter raised her head first.

"Oh, it's as detailed as the proposal—" she praised.

I raised my chin proudly.

Suddenly, the paralyzed girl also expressed her opinion: "It's just that the font is really ugly──"

Ping pong!

The praise and criticism from the two sisters were like fire and ice, and the polarized temperature difference shattered my glass heart into pieces. However, they did not seem to want to let me, a person from another world, go easily, but continued to stab me without mercy.

At this time, President Ehard also nodded and agreed with what Blanny said: "Xiao Lan's handwriting is indeed a bit apologetic. In order to facilitate identification in the future, it would be better for Blanny to copy the above content."

"Well, that's fine. My handwriting is just ugly anyway..."

After getting my resentful consent, Berlani didn't waste any time. She immediately started to write. Just by looking at the way she held the quill pen, I intuitively understood where I was ugly. To describe it in the simplest language, she was the talented woman from a scholarly family, and I was the naughty child who scribbled on the wall with colored crayons. The former was elegant and beautiful, while the latter...

Innocent and cute?

I really don't want to use this word to describe myself, but I really can't think of any other more positive terms.

Being directly criticized for having ugly handwriting, I was undoubtedly a little unhappy at first. However, when I actually saw Berlane's handwriting, I was completely convinced. Since it was a formal document, she did not deliberately write in a personalized way. Instead, she simply copied a whole piece of white paper with neat and clean strokes. Even without any auxiliary lines, the whole article still looked as neat and consistent as if it had been processed by a computer. This is by no means a skill that can be achieved through hard practice, but a God-given gift.

"It's so beautiful. It can be placed at home as a decoration──" I expressed my admiration sincerely.

The president put her hands on her hips, full of pride. "Hehe, that's natural. My stepsister's handwriting is famous for its beautiful handwriting. For example, most of the menus at the Stone House were actually written by her."

"Oh, that's amazing." I said admiringly in an exaggerated tone.

"Hehe, don't you see whose sister she is?"

The president covered her mouth like a thief, chuckled and whispered to me: "Since you are about to become a core member of the Stone House, I will tell you a secret today!"

"What secret?" I was immediately very curious.

The president rolled her eyes, looked at Berlani and said with a sly smile, "Actually, my good stepsister is very, very, extremely, super, very concerned about how others view her handwriting. If you occasionally ask her to write one or two pieces of calligraphy or paintings for you, she will be very happy all day long!"

In this world, there are always some people who like to commit suicide all the time.

And the president Ehard in front of us was simply using up all her life to stick to the principle of courting death. Just as she finished listening to her words, Berlani over there had an iron glove emitting cold light in her hand. Then there was a bang, and a blond figure flew out like a human cannon...

[Critical Hit! HP-520! ]

I glanced at the team and saw that my captain Meng'er only had one-fifth of his health left.

Then, Brannie looked at me "calmly" again, and then looked at the contract on the table.

"Senior Berlani, I'll have to trouble you to take care of me in the future!"

I bowed 90 degrees and signed my name on the contract.

Then, Miss System's voice rang in my ears again -

"Congratulations to the player for obtaining one-fifth of the shares of Stone House and becoming one of the major shareholders!"

"Hidden condition triggered, opening the second job: Apprentice Guild Manager!"

"Professional requirements met! Adventurer's Guild management interface officially opened!"

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21. On the Importance of Skill Point Allocation (Xiao Lan)

(Ulu-Lannon)

The same night I became the poster girl and major shareholder of Stone House, I lay on the bed, looking at the system selection with a gloomy posture with my head down at a minus 45 degree angle, which contained a huge amount of information...

I have to praise that the designer of this game system is really attentive. Both the professional skill tree and the guild system have rich and clear content, and the balance between the two professions is also quite good.

Therefore, I am also worried about the direction of skill point distribution.

Although the shares of Stone House gave me a new profession, after some research, I found that the levels of the two professions are actually the same, which also means that the skill points of the two professions are also shared. But just like many online games, the skill points given by the system to players are often not enough to max out every professional skill...

Therefore, players must make personal choices.

Greed will only lead to an awkward situation where neither side can reach the destination.

Regardless of whether it is the poster girl or the manager, the advanced core skills on both sides' skill trees have a large number of prerequisite skills, and the most efficient approach is definitely to max out one of them first, and then allocate the remaining points to the other tree.

At this time, after a long period of thinking, I actually came to a rational conclusion that left me speechless...

"Is poster girl the most reasonable choice?" I smiled bitterly without saying a word.

In fact, the difference between the poster girl and the guild manager is not difficult to distinguish. By analyzing the ultimate skills of each of them on the skill tree, I can directly come up with a simple and specific concept.

First of all, the ultimate skill of the poster girl has a very embarrassing name, called "Alluring Beauty". Its skill effect is to directly increase the popularity of the poster girl by 50%. In other words, if I could have attracted ten customers for the Stone House, as long as I have this ultimate skill, I can bring in five additional customers, thereby increasing the guild's turnover!

As for guild managers, there is an unreasonable skill called "technical tax evasion". With the help of this ultimate skill, I do not need to report all the guild profits I earn to the government, thus exempting myself from the 13% tax!

It's a pity that I only own one-fifth of the shares of Stone House. Even though the tax exemption effect is very tempting, the other "Alluring Beauty" that can directly and significantly improve the guild's performance obviously has more practical influence. Therefore, for me at this stage, it is undoubtedly economically efficient to make up my mind to become a poster girl!

"But, no matter how I think about it, it feels awkward..."

I was full of conflicts in my mind, but rationality still made me reluctantly give up the manager's skill tree. After a pause, I slightly suppressed my unprofessional resistance and refocused on analyzing the poster girl's skill tree.

According to my observation, the skill tree of this game has a rule of making a skill selection every five career levels, and all of them are multiple-choice questions with one out of three choices. Once one of the skills is selected, the other two skills will never be learned!

In addition, the upper limit of each skill level is uniformly level 5. Unless I upgrade the skill to level 5, I will not be able to learn the next stage of professional skills.

For example, my poster girl profession is currently at level 2, so I can decide to learn one of the following three professional skills: [The Bandit King's Tip], [The Beauty of a Hard-Working Family], and [The Secret Skills of a Lazy Man].

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[Bandit King's Tip 0/5] (Learning conditions, one skill point, career level 1):

Skill description:

No matter how bad your service is, as long as you have a big fist, everything will be fine! Please inherit the will of the Bandit King and make all adventurers with lower force than you pay you extra tips! The price of the tip depends on the player's skill and occupation level as well as the adventurer level of the service object. For details, please see the fee table page.