Chapter 117 - 115: Competition Teams_1
The Golden Oak Chamber of Commerce was an organization similar to a merchants’ association. Merchants could join by paying a membership fee and subsequently enjoy many preferential treatments from within the chamber.
Sometimes, merchants engaged in similar businesses would collude, amassing fortunes by manipulating the prices of specific goods. It was a prime example of concentrating resources to achieve significant results.
With support from the Silvermane Principality, the Golden Oak Chamber of Commerce was the dominant force in the Wildwind Highlands, wielding influence that could not be ignored.
Therefore, as the head of the Golden Oak Chamber of Commerce’s branch in Nuta City, Branch Head Gale generally received considerable deference, even from the nobility.
However, at yesterday’s Temple meeting, Count Theodore had chased him from the conference table, leaving Gale feeling utterly humiliated. He had also seized the opportunity to inflate the price for repairing the road between Nuta City and Storm City, intending to profit from the war.
When the Lord’s Mansion sent someone to find Gale, Branch Head Gale was mobilizing the chamber’s road repair team. He was arranging manpower, preparing tools and vehicles, and also performing a checkup on the Heavy Tamping Golems and preheating their Magic Energy Cores.
Gale was convinced that Count Theodore had no choice. He believed the Count could only accept the road repair fee he quoted: 5 Gold for every hundred meters.
Therefore, when meeting the soldier sent by the Lord’s Mansion, Gale stood arrogantly beside a four-legged Heavy Tamping Golem. He believed Count Theodore had finally bowed his head to him.
But he had never expected that the message the soldier delivered was not the Count’s agreement to the Golden Oak Chamber of Commerce’s price for them to start work immediately. Instead, the message stated, "Tomorrow morning, in the southern suburbs of Nuta City, Count Theodore is organizing a road repair competition and requires the Golden Oak Chamber of Commerce’s repair team to participate on time. If you are late, it will be treated as a forfeit."
What a joke! Gale thought. Where on the entire Wildwind Highlands is there another proper road repair team? No, who in the Wildwind Highlands, so lacking in awareness, would dare to snatch business from me, Gale?