"Are you planning more upgrades for the Guild House?" Governor Shin asked as he looked around the yard.
Karl shrugged. "I might. The place is nice, and it’s got almost everything that we could need. But with the workload, I suspect that Ashbringer could use a larger forge and some more apprentices.
So, I might upgrade the outdoor workshop to give them more space.
Now that I’m at Totem Rank, and so is Miss Opal, we can make rather powerful Illusionary Stones, and those can be used to set an Illusionary Domain in the workshop.
That would give them all the space that they could need.
It would also give us more storage space because I expect that soon we will have a lot more loot coming in. The ladies are all Overlords, and they get a cut of the trash loot, which we sent back home for the crafters to rework."
The sector leaders of Drodh sighed enviously.
"Perhaps we should have been more ambitious and joined one of the Raiding Guilds near Lake Naraleddum. But I never wanted to move too far from home." Governor Shin lamented.
Karl shrugged. "Things are different there. Everything is combat focused, everything is a competition. The tax to live in the area is so high that unless you’re doing Totem and Mythic Ranked Dungeons as part of a Guild, you can’t afford to stay.
There are mercenary camps outside the city, but even at Totem Rank, they’re mostly struggling to find decent groups.
The Warrior Phenomenon is too strong."
The Demons all laughed, and Governor Shin gave Karl a wry smile. "I feel that on a deeply personal level."
Karl frowned. "Oh, Drodh has it good. There are actual classes other than Warrior here, naturally. It’s so bad there that they have to recruit from the outside to get anything else. Every Totem Ranked group is over half warriors, not counting the advanced classes, just warriors.
And that is after their efforts to get other classes in and recruit Dragon clerics.
From what I understand, out of over six hundred Overlords in our Alliance, there are fewer than twenty healers. It’s so bad that they literally kicked people out of a group so that ours could join, and they didn’t even ask if they were any good at their jobs first."
The Demons chuckled. "Is it really that bad?"
Karl nodded. "The group that they went with had fifteen warriors in a twenty-five-person group. It’s insane.
Especially for poor Ashbringer, who has to make all the metal armour that they’re requesting. We need more Master Smiths.
More than just the ones he’s already hired, that is. Because he’s got at least two different forges hired to make armour for us to upgrade with runes already."
Jones chuckled. "So, that is what is going on. I’ve seen every forge on the south side of the city suddenly ramped up to full production, and I couldn’t figure out where it was going because nobody had any stock to sell to the trade caravans.
Governor Shin winked at Karl. "So, even the Immortals know that your entire existence is created to break the comfortable balance of the world. But he’s also an old friend of that dragon. So, he knows better than anyone what disruptive existences look like."
"It was his Seer who said that we were going to be become so wealthy that even our common members would be able to crush Guilds who irritated them. That’s the reason he put the restriction on.
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