Born Almighty Warrior novel Chapter 292

It was a busy day for the people in the Manor Palace as they progressed with their casting business. Slowly but surely they pushed through with their merchandise and took a high market share in the whole of the Chaotic Region. Meanwhile, the Dahlia Palace was on the move, too. Even though they never had an experience with weapons and casting, they surely did a risky move to open a shop and compete with the Manor Palace.

Just like any other newbie in the business scene, most people would underestimate one's products and assume that they were in a much lower quality than that of the prime merchant. To the customers' eyes, the Dahlia Palace's weapons were much inferior to what the Manor Palace, Ricky's organization, made. Only a few people trusted and bought weapons from the Dahlia Palace because in the field of casting in the Chaotic Region, Ricky was lauded to have made remarkable masterpieces that anything that he did not make was marked as rubbish.

People started to get curious on what the Dahlia Palace had to offer. More and more people came over to check on the new weapons mainly for two reasons. One, some others went to them only because they could not afford the prices set out by the Manor Palace and two, they just wanted to check out how horrible and flimsy their products were. But to their surprise, they might have just hit the jackpot. A weapon of the advanced Mortal Level made by the Dahlia Palace was far cheaper and was in far better quality than the ones offered by the Manor Palace.

The people experimented to settle the quality check. Some warriors engaged in combat while using a weapon of their choice from each palace. And to their surprise, the weapons from the Dahlia Palace were far stronger and had only sustained minor damages.

Soon after their discovery, more and more people began switching their patronage from the Manor Palace to the Dahlia Palace when they needed to buy high grade and high quality weapons. After all, the deal was quite a steal-- cheaper and better!

This was bad news to all the weapon shops controlled by the Manor Palace because less people came to them after finding out that there was a better option.

This sudden increase in market and the superior quality of Dahlia Palace's weapons alarmed many large organizations. They sent out their men to find out why and how could the Dahlia Palace develop extraordinary weapons when in fact, they had never done one before. This competition between the Manor Palace and the Dahlia Palace was such a juicy gossip for everyone in the Chaotic Region. It was like a suspense movie that everyone was all ears on any updates regarding the inspection.

Some people had a generally good theory--a stronger casting master, more skilled than Russell, created the weapons in the Dahlia Palace. They never knew who this master was, and they never had a name for her. Whenever they talked about her, they referred to her as 'Miss Who.'

But the mystery was difficult for everyone. Even people from the Dahlia Palace never talked about their new casting master. Some of them didn't even know how they were able to sell such high grade weapons and they didn't know where they came from and who made them. The investigation became harder since they weren't able to dig up new information on this certain 'Miss Who.'

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Meanwhile, Ricky and some core members gathered around in the meeting room of the Manor Palace to sort things out. All of them discussed the issue with such heavy hearts for none of them really expected things to work this way so suddenly. All of them bore the same visage--furrowed brows and frequent fidgeting as stress engulfed their minds.

"Ugh, damn the Dahlia Palace! They are obviously against us. How could they steal away our business? This is our livelihood. I checked our weapon stores today and guess what? There were only one or two customers during the whole business hour! And what's even worse is that they compared the weapons in our store with that from the Dahlia Palace and finally left and went to their shop. We can't just sit around and do nothing!" Tyson exclaimed as he banged the table with his fist out of anger. "I've done some research and found out that they had never run the casting business before!"

"Listen, our priority for the time being is to figure out a solution to this problem. Any more complains won't help this issue and will make no difference!" Kristen said with a serious expression.

Suddenly, all of them placed their eyes on their leader, Ricky. They trusted his opinion more than anyone else in the group especially with these kinds of situations.

"So, what's your idea, Russell?" Kristen asked.

"Why don't I pay a little visit to the Dahlia Palace and see what's going on?" Ricky replied before he lowered his head, lost in his thought for a few moments, and finally raised up his eyes to take a glance at everyone.

A few days ago Ricky sent out one of his men secretly to purchase a weapon of the advanced Mortal Level from the Dahlia Palace. He just wanted to check if the rumors were true. But when he examined the weapon, he could not believe that the people were right--the weapon was even better than what he could cast at the same level. He wasn't ashamed to admit it to himself for he knew that there was always someone better than him and that this would only make him want to be better.

And from what he knew upon examining the weapon, he was so sure that the casting master from the Dahlia Palace was more than just a casting master of advanced Mortal Level. Miss Who was indeed more powerful of a caster than he was.

It was almost too impossible to regain the Manor Palace's market in an instant. Even if Ricky tried to improve his casting, it would surely take him a lot of time and even if he used his two Supreme Skills, he wouldn't be able to make the progress that he needed instantly.

However, the Manor Palace's maintenance and livelihood depended on the weapon business. They couldn't afford to lose the business or else, they wouldn't be able to sustain the needs of the Manor Palace. And it all boiled down to one thing--paying a visit to the Dahlia Palace might be their way to solve their problems.

"What? Paying a visiting to the Dahlia Palace? Do you think it would work?" Everyone in the meeting room quite understood what Ricky was up to. But not everyone was in on his plan. He just wanted to negotiate with the chief of the Dahlia Palace so that there would be a less violent solution to end their woes.

They thought that the Dahlia Palace would just shut their doors on Ricky before he could even say anything. They didn't think that Ricky could even make it to the palace's gates. They didn't want his plan to be in vain.

"The Dahlia Palace had never run the weapon business before, but they suddenly began to enter this market with such a bang. I'm sure there is a reason for this abrupt change. I'll go, anyway. We won't know whether they would shut their doors on me unless I try," Ricky explained with a determined look.

"All right! I'll go with you then," Bastian offered his help when he saw the determination in Ricky's eyes. All he knew was that he would like to be of help to the weapon business.

"Thank you for your offer, Bastian, but I think I'll take Soar this time. Stay here with the others and wait for my news. It would be easier for me and Soar to leave there safely should there be any unfavorable thing happening." Ricky knew Bastian was just being kind and wanted to be helpful. Yet he refused the offer because he deemed it unnecessary.

"Well, now that you've made up your mind, go for it!" Kristen put in. "But, yeah, you are the casting master. I can't think of anyone else who could solve this fiasco except you. The rest of us can't help so...just please be careful, okay?"

"Ha-ha, you know me well, Kristen. And of course I will. Thank you." Ricky laughed out loud upon hearing Kristen's agreement.

"Ha-ha!" The rest of the group couldn't help but spurt out a laugh from the contagious laughter by Ricky. And at last, everyone felt a little lighter.