Chapter 46: The Black Market
The next morning, I held an emergency meeting with ViTech’s first employee. Our meeting took place in the gun range where Jane’s father used to work before his expulsion.
"Miss Jane, now that you are done with your finals as well, are you ready to make me the most advanced guns of this era?"
"Hopefully, my Lady. However, there is a problem I can’t bypass on my own."
"Please, do tell. I love solving problems."
"While I worked hard on redesigning and adjusting the schematics you gave me, I lack the means to create it."
"How so?"
"I am a gunsmith, my ability to make things related to guns is limited to what is in the market. What you want here, my lady, is original custom work. Something that hasn’t ever existed and has no pieces in the market that I can pick and put together."
"So you need a metalsmith, is that it?"
"And he needs to be as crafty as Saint Hermes at that. We can’t afford a single hitch in a gun if we are going to make something completely new. We will be risking the hands of whoever tries it first."
"I get you. But where can we get a metalsmith with such a skill on such short notice? I imagine that most skilled metalworkers already have busy schedules and a list filled with clients. Also, these guns are a secret between you and me only."
"That’s indeed the case." Jane agreed with me but it seemed that there was something she wasn’t letting out.