Guild Boss's Ambition

29. The Glory of the Morning Star (Little Blue)

(Ulu-Lannon)

During the long night, the morning star in the sky shines the brightest. Adventurers are looking for their home for the night on the wide streets. They are either alone, in pairs, or in groups of three or five. There are lizard men carrying giant axes, minotaurs with horns, and of course cute half-elves and pure-blooded humans.

"Beauty! Would you like to try our new drink?"

"Hehe, it tastes good, right? It's called Morning Star, the star of Lucifer and Venus!"

Another girl named Annie was trying to promote our new product in front of the Stone House. That was supposed to be my job, but when I picked up the Morning Star that Berlane had tuned, a familiar female voice made me realize that I shouldn't be in the bar area of ​​the Stone House...

[Congratulations! The player successfully broke a high-grade glass tumbler and received 150 character and career experience points! ]

His mother's cheating system!

Because of this weird hidden title, [Tableware Smasher], I had to give up any job that might involve contact with tableware. And because I was still young and everyone was too busy to teach me, a junior, I had to go back to my old job and fight monsters to level up. Oh no! I said wrong! I was going to distribute flyers and earn experience!

[The player successfully recruited a silver-level customer, character experience +1, career experience +3! ]

[The player successfully recruited a silver-level customer, character experience +2, career experience +6! ]

[The player successfully recruited 5 gold-level guests, character experience value +50, career experience value +50! ]

[Player succeeds...]

Since the introduction of the new product "Morning Star", not only has the business in my store improved a lot, but my flyer distribution has also become particularly smooth. The continuous system reminder sounds have forced me to temporarily turn off the system lady's voice. If nothing unexpected happens, as long as I distribute flyers obediently for a week, my level can be upgraded from 3 to 4!

"No matter how I think about it, I feel like the pace of this game is ridiculously slow..."

Having said that, even though I have been complaining about my Miss System, I am still in a good mood. Ever since I accidentally obtained the profession of Guild Manager last time, the guild system has been unlocked. Through the guild system, I can understand the current situation of the Stone House in the most digital way. Even before the President starts to record the accounts, I can understand today's financial performance one step ahead.

After deducting various production costs and interest, the Stone House can finally get rid of the average monthly loss of forty-six gold coins and temporarily achieve a daily profit of three gold coins. If it can maintain its current popularity, it is not impossible to turn losses into profits within the remaining ten days and win the bet with Hai Lao.

"However, the question is...how can we maintain our popularity?"

As time goes by, the freshness of the product will begin to decline, and the formula of Morning Star itself is very simple. Even if some confidentiality measures are deliberately taken, it is believed that it will be copied by other experts within half a month. After losing its uniqueness, the price of Morning Star will inevitably begin to decline following the market reaction, greatly reducing Stone House's profits.

"I have never missed the word patent more than now..."

But what doesn’t exist doesn’t exist. Instead of relying on something that doesn’t exist at all, it is better to focus on the present. If being copied is an inevitable future, then we at Stone House can only try our best to seize this small period of good time of monopolizing the market!

"I hope everything goes well..."

Due to limited human and financial resources, what we can do is actually very limited. Under certain authority, we finally decided on only one short-term activity and two long-term investments. In this early stage, there are too many potential crises. Instead of casting a wide net without knowing the situation, it is better to focus on a few key points and catch the big fish first.

Ding dong!

"Oh, you've successfully signed up another Bronze-rank adventurer! You're worthy of being the guildmaster."

A gentle reminder sounded, and I took a quick glance at the guild system, and found that there was a new name added to the employee list.

For an adventurer's guild, in addition to recruiting employees to maintain food and accommodation services, it also needs enough contract adventurers to complete the bounty missions of the clients. Once there is a shortage of adventurers, the commissioned missions will inevitably fail due to the deadline. At that time, the public's trust in the guild will decline, which will affect the business.

Up to now, the number of contract adventurers in Stone House is only 35, including 10 Black Bronze level, 2 Silver level, and Gold level adventurers. Even if we don't compare it with first-class guilds like Tree of Life, just for small and medium-sized adventurer guilds, this number of contract adventurers is still very ugly. It needs to be at least doubled to be considered normal.

However, Morning Star's recruitment effect was better than I expected. In just half a night, the president successfully signed three black bronze-level contracts. I believe that by the end of this month, the guild's human resources will be greatly improved. By then, we will have more room for maneuver and bargaining chips.

How does one say this?

Well, talent is the greatest asset.

These adventurer contracts, which are like timely help, are the ones that Morningstar brings the greatest long-term returns!

"However, we can actually go one step further and borrow the afterglow of the Morning Star..."

Any company that wants to stand out among its peers must have an advantage that can break the balance. Morningstar Cocktail is undoubtedly one of them, but this advantage will soon disappear due to the emergence of copycats. At this stage, one of the ways to fight against copycats is to create high-tech products that are difficult to imitate, such as Bloody Mary, Channel Commander, Icebreaker and other cocktails whose recipes are far more complicated than those of a screwdriver.

pity……

Due to some inexplicable broken system, once I touch eating utensils while working, those poor utensils will meet a devastating end within three minutes. Therefore, in terms of cocktail research and development, I obviously can no longer complete it alone. Therefore, I must find a loyal and smart assistant. For this position, President Ehard recommended a candidate to me.

That person is Annie, one of the three poster girls of the Stone House.

Anne is a very compassionate half-elf. Although the stone house has long been crumbling, she still insists on staying amid the many people leaving because of their past friendship. She is determined to complete the last leg of the journey with the guild that has been with her for twenty years. Such a trustworthy and righteous character makes President Ehard have great trust in her.

Furthermore, the staff information provided by the game system also made me very satisfied with this candidate.

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Character: Anne Princeton

Race: Half-elf

Role/Occupation: Archer/Poster Girl

Character/Professional Level: 20/40

Personality traits: spiritual mentor, scholar, elf aesthetics

[Spiritual Mentor]: Her considerate and friendly personality allows her to quickly approach the hearts of most living beings. After maintaining contact with them for more than an hour in a peaceful state, she will be able to establish a [Friendship] relationship with the target party. Afterwards, her friends' unilateral favorability towards Annie will gradually increase as they spend more time together.

[Loremaster]: She has the lifespan of an elf, but is as eager for knowledge as a human. After working for a long time, her skills often improve, and she occasionally has some surprising insights. Be careful! Be careful of the crystallization of wisdom that combines the characteristics of humans and elves, because they are sometimes crazier and more terrifying than the inventions of goblins!

[Half-elf's Aesthetics]: Annie has a unique understanding of beauty. All items created by Annie have a unified +1 Art Value. As the price of elegance, her production speed will also decrease by %.

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As soon as I saw Anne's character information, I couldn't help but feel that President Ehard was wasting his talent.

According to Annie's personality traits, she should not just serve dishes and hand out flyers. Both her scholarly qualities and her half-elf beauty point her towards a creative career. Add in her spiritual mentor qualities and she meets my requirements perfectly. I believe that with some training, she can become an excellent bartender!

Ok……

At least he is the first professional bartender in the history of the other world?

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1. The Afterglow of the Morning Star (Little Blue)

(Ulu-Lannon)

However, although we want to train the half-elf Annie to be the bartender of the Stone House, it is not something that can be implemented in a short time. Before that, we have to hire a new poster girl first, so that we can free Annie from her original job. In addition to replacing Annie, we also need people to organize promotional activities.

Yes, in order to increase the popularity of Morning Star, Blanny and I have specially conceived a promotional activity. As long as President Ehard recruits enough new employees, this activity can be immediately scheduled and implemented the next day!

"Hello, what happened in the stone house?"

At this moment, a pale-faced, black-haired girl appeared silently behind me. She was wearing a pure black robe, a terrifying dinosaur skull on her head, and all kinds of hideous bone decorations hung all over her body. I was so absorbed in my thoughts that I was startled by her voice, and then I was frightened by her strange scarred appearance and screamed loudly -

"Help! There's a ghost—"

I was so flustered that even the flyers were scattered in the air, and the bone girl seemed to be very accustomed to my reaction. She sighed helplessly, turned the scepter in her hand, and cast a spell on me.

System: The player enters a muted state and remains silent for 300 seconds until the caster removes the spell.

So, I temporarily turned back into a mute, which made me feel inexplicably at ease.

"Don't be afraid, I'm not a bad person, I'm an adventurer from your stone house."

She held her forehead in pain and explained her identity to me. After becoming a mute again, I naturally used the sign language of the past: "What do you want from me?"

I don’t know if the bone girl understood my sign language. She lifted the mute spell on me and asked, “I want to ask what happened in your stone house? Why did it suddenly become so lively?”

Watching the flow of people in and out of the stone house, the bone girl did not show any joy. Instead, her tone was filled with anxiety and impatience. Therefore, I was deeply surprised and simply described the current situation: "That's because our store has launched a new cocktail called Morning Star. It is very popular among adventurers, so it has attracted many customers."

She frowned and asked, "Morning Star? Mixology? Is that a type of alcohol?"

"Well, it's a wine."

"It's terrible. Why do humans like these things that numb their rationality?"

She looked at the crowd following the wine with disdain, then turned to me and said in a deep voice: "Okay, little strange poster girl, tell your president that I, Bai Ye, have always had few requirements, only three: a quiet environment, absolute privacy, and food and lodging services that can meet basic human needs. So, you'd better stop selling this stupid thing called Morning Star!"

white night?

As soon as I heard the name, I felt something was wrong, so I quickly opened the guild system to check the contract adventurer information...

Sure enough! This bone girl who called herself Bai Ye was exactly one of the two gold-level adventurers. Her profession was a necromancer. She could complete twelve gold-level tasks on average every month, bringing in hardware agency fees for the Stone House.

"At this stage, losing any gold-rank adventurer would definitely be a huge loss for the guild..."

After referring to what the bone girl said just now, I can more or less guess her situation. Perhaps it was because the old depressed stone house had a quiet and peaceful environment that she, a gold-level adventurer, signed the contract. But now, with the emergence of the new product Morning Star, the stone house began to recover, and the peace she requested was destroyed...

First of all, there is absolutely no way Morningstar would give up.

Secondly, I also want to keep this gold-level adventurer.

Therefore, I straightened my body and introduced myself to the bone girl Bai Ye: "Hello, I am the new partner of the Stone House, my name is Ulu Lannong. As for the matter about Morning Star, maybe we can go to a quieter place to have a good talk?"

She thought about it for a while before nodding and agreeing to my suggestion.

"plz follow me."

I gave her a soothing smile and turned to lead the way for her. Considering her preference for quietness, I deliberately avoided the crowd at the main entrance, turned into the back alley of the stone house, and entered the stone house through the back door.

"Excuse me, Miss Bai Ye, which room are you staying in?"

"Room 444 on the second floor."

"How about we talk in your room?"

At this moment, she suddenly gave a cold and sinister smile: "If you are not afraid of death."

My shoulders stiffened, but I pretended to be calm. "Ms. Bai Ye likes to joke around. Even if you are a rare necromancer, you wouldn't harm anyone, right?"

"I've done a lot of human experiments."

I glanced back at the bone decorations on her body and suddenly found several shocking human heads. The fear in my heart doubled. In order to prevent myself from losing my mind due to fear, I began to make excuses for her: "Using corpses as experimental subjects sounds horrible, but I don't think it is completely immoral. Even killing people is sometimes for justice."

"You're so funny that I want to dissect you." She seemed to have told an unfunny joke.

I smiled stiffly, stopped in front of her room 444, and offered advice to the necromancer beside me: "In this society, you have other less risky subjects for dissection, such as sick passers-by, cold-blooded robbers, and unfair bureaucrats."

Hearing this, Bai Ye smiled playfully, took out the key to the room, and opened her little world to me.

"Welcome to my death hut. Before you step into this magical space, please be prepared to die—"

Room 444 of the stone house had obviously been illegally renovated by the necromancer. Standing outside the room, I could only see a phantom purple light curtain blocking the entire door, and I was completely unable to see what was going on inside. Coupled with the death threat from the bone girl, I suddenly felt like I had just finished listening to a ghost story and had to get up in the middle of the night to pee...

But as a grown man, how can I be afraid of these monsters?

For some unreasonable reason, I summoned up my miraculous courage and rushed into the necromancer's private space without even a second thought. What greeted my eyes was a terrifying scene like a nightmare!

The spacious room was filled with numerous iron cages, containing both living and dead creatures. As soon as they saw me appear, the whole room erupted in a raging primitive roar, and the iron cages around me made a series of tooth-grinding and headache-inducing metallic clanging sounds due to the struggles of the trapped animals. I just stood at the door like a fool, not knowing what to do.

"What do you think? About my little house?"

I don't know when, Bai Ye also returned to her own little house. Looking at me standing there like a fool, she smiled with satisfaction and joy, then snapped her fingers, casting a wide-area silencing spell, turning the noisy room into an eerily quiet one.

then……

I saw a man with only half of his flesh and blood screaming madly, but there was no sound...

Two blind mastiffs kept bumping into each other, but no sound came...

A man and a woman continued the most primitive movement of life in the cage, without any joy...

"This place is full of cruelty, yet empty and quiet."

Because of the silencing magic, the terrifying sounds were gone, and everything before my eyes seemed unreal, as if I was watching a documentary not suitable for children through a TV screen. No matter how disgusting the scene was, it lacked the urgent fear of crisis. Also, because of the lack of fear, the rationality of my spiritual side began to function normally, making me gradually think about the meaning behind this documentary.

"Bai Ye, what are you pursuing?" I asked the necromancer behind me.

The bone girl revealed a lonely and proud smile: "Truth, the truth of eternal life."

Hearing this, I raised my eyebrows and responded with an appreciative smile.

"I am happy to see your success at any cost."

The bone girl also laughed because of my answer: "Don't even think about it."

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2. The Silence of the Immortal (Little Blue)

(Ulu-Lannon)

Because of fear and danger, I was extremely calm.

Although Bai Ye smiled at me, the issues between her and me have not been resolved yet. If the Stone House can no longer provide her with a quiet resting environment, I believe that as soon as the contract expires, she will immediately terminate our employment relationship. Before that, I must understand what she really wants.