War Online

Chapter 75: Mayor of Deloris town part-3

As soon as White Tiger heard the notification regarding his arch-enemy, he dashed towards the three-headed dog in anger and madly attacked it with all of the skills without caring about anything.

As he killed it and the drops fell on the ground, White Tiger thought, "Is this a coincidence or a planned strategy against me because I put a hefty bounty on him?

Hmpf, this isn't East Ocean city. I have taken over not only this city lead position but even the so-called also our rival, pinpoint guild with money. I even planted several subsidiary guilds in the city. Now, more than half of the players inside the city are actually under me. Let's see what you can do this time.

And, this time, I won't foolishly raise the bounty on you. I know it'll be useless because of your level. That's why... I'll wait wait until the average player level increases to 200.

After that, neither the default guards hired by the system nor the ones you'll hire for your protection will save you.

Just you wait. I'll demolish the city you'll painstakingly develop before your eyes."

Meanwhile, in the Mayor's office, Wil took his seat after realizing the badge won't budge until his working hours are done and sent a message to Aster after sending Syvis away. 

Time Traveler: Aster, we are shifting our base of operations to an NPC town named Deloris. I'm now the mayor of this town. Tell everyone in the guild to shift to this town. Our Scarlet guild will settle here permanently. As for Silvershapers, they'll continue to develop in the city.

Time Traveler: I'm sending you 500 gold coins. Silvershapers should be expanded into all other eight cities. Each branch manager will have the same salary as Fiery Snake. They should sign the contract in real life.

Time Traveler: Let MountainRock take care of the selection and sign up process. After all, he is the guild leader. If there are any issues, you can help out but that's it. You'll stop involving in that guild's business directly from now onwards. If he can't do that and thinks he's incapable, tell him to step down. We'll choose someone else as the leader and make him a branch manager in another city.

Time Traveler: Oh, by the way, tell Mountain Rock to make an application to open a guild branch here. And tell Flame Emperor and Snow Dew to contact me if they have any problems with my arrangements.

After messaging him all the orders at once, Wil then opened the Mayor's panel.

Name: Time Traveler

Nobility rank: Earl

Designation: Mayor

Place: Deloris town

Free System announcements per day: 3

Deloris town statistics:

Area: 15.02 square km

Total number of residents: 3781

Number of native residents: 3258

Number of players: 523

Number of Guilds: Two

Number of Associations: 9

Number of Stores: 8

Smithy: 2

Lab: 2

Restaurants: 5

Street Food Stalls: 26

Agricultural fields: 7895 

Agriculture tax: 2%

Commercial Tax: 15%

Current tax rate per week: 52 gold, 36 Silver, 52 Copper

Tax rate to the palace: 50% 

Current Funds: 83 gold, 12 Silver, 10 Copper

"No wonder, the income is so low. It's funny that there is a double number of agriculture fields than residents. Most of the town area is occupied by fields. What can I do with a mere 52 gold?

It's just 52 gold per week and in that, 26 gold will go to the palace. I don't think it's possible to develop this town with it. 

Oh, I guess, this is how I can give announcements huh"

At the end of the panel, there's an option of the announcement, which lets him make a system announcement inside the town or give a personal notification to the resident of the town whoever or wherever he might be.

Once the free announcements were over, he had to pay 5 gold coins for every system announcement and 10 gold coins for every personal notification.

After getting to know all the information about his town, Wil exited his office and came to the ground floor where he saw the only three employees of the Administration building were busy lazing around.

As soon as they saw them, they stood up and greeted him formally since they didn't have the time to do that before.

As an elf named Cellica offered him a chair to take a seat, Wil smiled and waved his hand, "it's fine. I'm here to enquire if there are available lands to buy. I'm an Earl, by the way."

Wil showed them his nobility badge as above Earl, a player can buy the locked plots and even stores.

Another elf replied quickly, "Absolutely, Mr. Mayor."

A map of the town appeared before him as she started explaining, "As you can see, this is our town. Outside of this core region of the town, where residents live, the north and eastern regions are filled with entirely agriculture fields.

The southern region is a way to go to other towns and cities. The western region has a total of 250 plots of which only these 25 are allowed to be bought. As an Earl of the Kingdom, you can buy 25 plots of the remaining 225. The plots cost 5 Gold each and for you, it's 2 gold 50 silver.

Oh, there are also 12 stores that are built inside the town which are currently empty. Others normally can only rent them for 1 Gold per week. As an Earl, you can buy such stores for 10 Gold. There's no discount on this purchase.

Wil smiled, "I'll buy everything."

"Everything?" The three of them were stunned on the spot as they didn't expect it. They were astonished by the fact that their new Mayor is someone who had lots of gold. After all, to buy fifty lands and 12 stores, he had to pay more than 200 gold.

As they were about to get a huge commission for selling the lands, which is greater than their salaries, they forgot a simple logic that the money he paid will end up in his own pocket at the end of the week. After all, Wil is the mayor of this town.

But, even if they discover it in the future, they weren't able to do anything as Wil was buying the lands officially and he's an Earl while they are simple commoners who are working as civil servants.

Before they get out of their shock, Wil took out the land deed he got from the King as a gift and showed it to them, "this is a deed of 60,000 sq.meters of land on my name. His majesty gave me the liberty of choosing the area. Considering the area of each plot is 1500 sq. meters in a town and I'm buying 25 of them, I'll be taking all of this 97500 sq. meters of land in the restricted section and the other 25 plots of land that's available.

Bring the deeds of the fifty lands I showed you, 12 stores, and register this land deed in the reports. Here's the money.

Wil casually handed out a pouch containing 245 gold to Syvis while the youngest elf named Nuala hurriedly went to the 2nd floor to bring the stack of land deeds.

As the process is going on, he received a message from Flame Emperor.

Flame Emperor: I heard that you want to shift everyone to Deloris town? Do you know that the town the closest thing to the border? Once the barrier between the Kingdoms is lifted and incase, a war broke out, the town will be the first one to get destroyed.

Time Traveler: Well, I have my plans for safety too. I took everything into consideration. Oh, by the way, I found the item that can purify the corrupted gold coins.

Time Traveler: However, since I can't implicate you to follow my decisions unconditionally, I will immediately purify the corrupted gold coins that you have with a 1500 gold commission if you want to leave the guild.

Time Traveler: But, if you decide to remain, you will have freedom like before but you can't question my decisions.

Flame Emperor: 1500 coins? As I expected. You sure increased the amount you offered me last time as soon as you found the item. 

Time Traveler: Don't get me wrong. I invested quite an amount to get the item very quickly. As you can see, it's not even a week since we get our hands on the corrupted gold. So, what do you say? Will you follow me and risk it without asking any questions or will you pay the commission and return to being your former life?

As he was waiting for the Flame Emperor's answer, Wil received a system notification.

*Ding. Someone from the outside world sent you a text.

As he opened the notification, he saw it was from his old number. This time, she sent a threatening message.

XXXX: Meet Cericia before tomorrow's sunrise or else you will pay for it.