I BECAME A SKULL IN ANOTHER WORLD WITH THE LABYRINTH MASTER'S WORK.
CHAPTER 42: BUILDING AN ADVENTURER GUILD
Elos nodded, in this world almost all regions are kingdoms or trade alliances so that power is always in the hands of someone or the chamber of commerce. Therefore, the actions of Elos who controlled the entire newly built Animal Man Kingdom were not at all strange. Even they would all refuse if Elos were not in power, after all they are now faithful followers of Elos.
After everyone agreed, Elos again spoke "The problem of government is over, for the election of ministers, nobles or military captains, that's your problem. But remember this carefully, you should always report the people you gave me power".
"Then I will form an adventurer guild, not an adventurer guild belonging to humans or demons but a special adventurer guild of our kingdom. The goal is to attack my labyrinth, as long as you manage to kill the monsters in the labyrinth then you can take the items from the slain monsters to sell".
"The power of the adventurer guild is held by Warren and Tira as his representatives, you have full power over the division of adventurer rank or whatever about the duties of these adventurers".
"Then there are mercenaries, different from the royal army group, mercenaries are not at all tied to any kingdom. Therefore, I will form a mercenary guild that is not much different from an adventurer guild, but a mercenary guild does not go to the labyrinth at all but instead go to the battlefield. Surely every person or kingdom would have to pay an appropriate price to hire these mercenaries".
"Elage, for now you will be the guild leader of the mercenaries. You can take mercenaries from anywhere, even humans or demons. But remember this carefully, whoever refuses the duties of the mercenary guild then their group will be banished or even in the law. Moreover, the guild will not accept any duty to attack our kingdom. While the division of rank is your own business".
"For Wefo, I will also form a murderous guild that accepts all assassins regardless of their race. The assassin guild will also receive all the tasks of assassins aside from the task of killing me or killing our allies or comrades. Assassin rank division is also your own duty, do you all understand?".
Elos gave all those who followed him power, however everyone was already fighting for Elos so they should be given the right credit. Although they are loyal, but if Elos does not give them any task then they may feel unneeded which makes their spirit decline.
"Okay sir! we understand!", replied everyone with firmness.
Elos nodded "Then all of you can go to tell my decision to all the animal humans in the barren land. No, wait a minute! I forgot to tell you that the resident tax will be lowered! They only need to pay 20% of their crops, after all a 50% tax would starve them. Not to mention winter arrived, surely many people would die from lack of food. Therefore, 20% tax is enough from the crops or fruit".
Hearing Elos' words, the smart Zeyi said doubtfully "Master, taxes are important to the kingdom's finances. If the tax is reduced then the kingdom's finances will not be enough, after all we have to give the soldiers a salary, build a city or road in the badlands and various other things. The 20% tax is too small to do any of that".
Elos shook his head "Zeyi, who said that the kingdom will not have enough money if we reduce the taxes of the residents? Most of our population does not have a lot of money, even they are difficult to be able to eat every day. So why should we absorb the blood of the poor? It will only make them more and more dead, I have no interest in making trouble for my own residents. Isn't there a rich man we can tax? Why should we make the poor poorer and the rich richer?".
"You mean sir?", asked Zeyi curiously, after all all the barren land residents have absolutely no wealth, more precisely, there are no rich people here who can be taken money through taxes.
Elos rolled his eyes, a sly smile appeared on Elos' face "Do you still not understand? Didn't the merchants from Kart City often pass by here to trade to Hiam City or Ruher City? The merchant federation was a gathering of wealthy people, those who dared to trade to another city must be quite wealthy. Therefore, to pass through the barren land area and let them go trade to Ruher City or Hiam, let them pay as much as 30% tax according to their merchandise. The more or richer the merchandise, the more expensive the tax they have to pay. Moreover, they are traders from other kingdoms, what is the harm in taking money or merchandise belonging to other kingdoms? These are all taxes to pass through our Barren Land".
But Zeyi again hesitated "What if they refused and chose to go the other way to Hiam City or Ruher City?".
Elos shook his head "From the Merchant Federation to the Ray Kingdom there are only 2 roads that pass through our barren land or the Deathly Forest, do you think those merchants dare to pass through the Deathly Forest? Even if they were brave, they would only die from the aura of death there".
"Unless they are ready to pass through the detour through many other kingdoms, they will surely choose to pass through our barren land. After all, passing through many other kingdoms also requires a lot of taxes that are not much different from our regional taxes, not to mention too much time sold to pass through other kingdoms. I'm sure they will definitely choose to pay 30% tax, as long as those merchants pay the tax then it's much better than the 50% tax% from the crops of our people because the wealth of the merchants is much higher than the produce of the fields, so a tax of 30% of the trade can be many times more than 50% of the produce of the fields of the population, am I right?".
Everyone's eyes shone, they had respected Elos a lot because he was a foretold man and very strong, but they now respect him more and more because of Elos' intelligence.
Everyone shouted excitedly "Master, you're really very smart!".
Elos waved his hand "There is no need to talk any more, quickly go and tell the whole barren land and the surrounding area about all the new rules and government that I have formed".
"Okay sir!", everyone left the room excitedly, even Warren went with Tira to form an adventurer guild.
Currently there are only Elos and Riona still in this room, Riona said to Elos full of doubts "Elos, why don't you give me any work? Can't I work well?".
Since there were only them in this room, Riona called Elos using her name instead of as master.
Hearing Riona's question, Elos smiles on the face of her skull which does not look like a smile because as a skull then she is very difficult to change her face "Why should I give you a job again? Your job is to continue beside me, if I give you another job then you won't be able to do the job right now".
A bright smile appeared on Riona's face that looked like the beauty of a flower, she said "Elos, then then I will always be by your side!".
Elos nodded and did not say much anymore, he was now waiting for the result of all the new rules and government he had made in this barren land.
Especially what Elos noticed the most was the matter of the adventurer guild, as long as these adventurers were successfully formed then the Elos labyrinth could also grow.
