The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 2028

Chapter 2028: Legendary Arena Perks

The dinner show ended without any major incidents, but with quite a few additional trade deals in the works.

Everyone wanted to get a piece of what the Darklight Host was producing, even if it was just to try to monopolize the workers so that their competition couldn’t get as much as they wanted and steal customers.

That was the most important part to the vast majority of the Clans.

Keeping their customer base when a new crafting Guild appeared was always difficult. They might be able to get them back when that new stock vanished, but before that, they would suffer.

The issue that everyone saw was the sheer size of the Darklight Host.

They had too many craftsmen, in too many disciplines, and too many powerful backers for them to vanish quickly. If they held out for decades, it would crush the other merchant groups in the region, who survived on small production independent craftsmen, or the crafting division of their own trade Clans.

The New Home made most of what they sold, but still relied heavily on trade to keep things running within the Clan. The Darklight Host took in raw materials, but they didn’t seem to have any need for outside gear, as they had no ambitions to be a merchant Clan, and simply opened shops to sell their products to the merchants who came to them.

And if you didn’t come to them, you would have to pay the markup from the ones who did.

Karl’s table at the show had been all from Merchant Clans, eager to make deals, but more eager to try to cut the Blue Elves out. The Elves had a reputation for piracy and sabotage that made them an enemy to nearly every Clan Leader with a port.

But somehow they always had the good stuff, and that meant that every port that wasn’t run by a Trade Clan loved them.

Having both the New Home and the Darklight Host along the peninsula willing to work with them meant that the Blue Elves now had access to half the shoreline’s resources, and all of the highest quality goods.

If that didn’t stop, they were going to send all the good stuff to auction, and the auction houses would cut the merchant Clans out of the coastal trade regions.

But Karl hadn’t been willing to make any deals that excluded customers, insisting that their money was as good as anyone’s and that if you wanted them blacklisted, you needed to be able to do it yourself.

It was brutal logic, but if you couldn’t force the Darklight Host to comply, that was really your only option.

And the market houses loved the Blue Elves.

They didn’t care if the loot was stolen, or if some random trade ship was sunk. What they cared about was that the items came to them for auction.

Immortals died all the time moving between cities, or on pilgrimages to gain power. Why would they care about strangers who took a risk and lost the bet? That was what trade was in this world. A wager that you were strong enough to be able to complete the trip and make a profit.

One of the Elders followed Karl out after dinner, looking for a private conversation.

"Might I speak with you for a moment about your agreement with the Yizimon Clan? My Clan also has a mining type dungeon among our controlled resources," he began.

Karl smiled. "Oh, that is wonderful news. We’re always in need of rare resources for higher grade items. Please, follow me to the Guild House and we can speak privately."

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