Someday Will I Be The Greatest Alchemist?

Chapter 487: Work is coming together

Leaving Akane and Maria in Volton, Sophia and I returned to the Sanctuary mansion.

Thats because, Im clueless about clothing designs.

As I sat on the living room sofa, I drank the tea brewed by the maids, and Sebastian came with a huge bundle of papers.

umm, is this everything?

No, a portion of it.

Thought so

Sebastian, who came from Volton, brought with him a whole bundle of papers. Theres no way I wouldnt have known what those meant. Of course, I was just escaping reality.

Master, Ill take it to your study.

After Sebastian, Mabel came to the living room with what seemed to be a heavy stack of papers, and with a single statement said that she would bring it to my study.

Then, please attend to these as soon as possible.

Urk

Sebastian also said as such and promptly left, carrying the bunch of papers.

Not to boast or anything, but ever since I came to this world, I had developed several tools and magic devices, starting with the water pump. Aside from those, I am aware that I honestly may have dabbled in too many things, like I had diversified womens underwear in this world, constructed a city and established roads, traded with the nations in the Demon Continent, and had developed the Savage Lands.

Thanks to these, I have way too much money flowing in. But vast amounts of money come hand in hand with a lot of documents.

Initially, there were a lot but few in variety, and Papeck-san took care of tax calculations and drawing up contracts for me. But adding in an increase of sellable items and a lot more official documents concerning the autonomous Sanctuary which was unrelated to Papeck-san, so Im at a complete loss.

In a sense, managing the territory of the Sanctuary, which was comparable to a small country, was more trouble than I ever imagined.

Haa, it wont end if I dont go, huh.

Sebastian couldnt bear to keep watching me be buried in a mountain of papers and made a suggestion.

Someone specialized in business work, huh I most definitely want a capable person, but its difficult because our case is peculiar.

I do think it would be more difficult than hiring maids and butlers. However, I believe the paperwork would increase even more from here on, and we would be over capacity.

Even now, its already disastrous without Maria who had always helped around, so I decided it would be better to have more people. However, someone who handles documents of great importance and flow of money needs to have more than just the skills. They must be honest and someone we can trust. I dont have the eyes to see through this at the first meeting.

Ill have to ask Undine and the others again, wont I?

If you want a highly skilled person, you wouldnt need to worry about betrayals with slaves, but

There are no slaves in the Sanctuary now. I dont want to be the only one who has a slave.

I have bought slaves, but Sophia, Maria, and Marnie[1] who became my wives, as well as Laeva who I purchased to help me with my work were all already released, so there were no slavs in the Sanctuary.

Among the people who were accepted by the Great Spirits, there will never be anyone who will fall into debt.

Excellent civil officials are scarce even in countries, it would be difficult to find one.

Even so, it would still be great if we had at least one person specialized in business.

In this world where dangers to ones life like monsters and thieves are so close, there are many outstanding military people, but very few civil officials.

King Valkyra would not have been called the Wise King without Lord Portfort.

No, we cant give up. There must be a good, skilled person lying dormant out there.

Without stopping my pen, I continued to discuss with Sebastian about hiring someone to do business work.

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Footnotes:

1. Marnie wasnt mentioned but I thought she should be here