An Extra’s POV

'A-ahh… I understand now'

As Rey looked at Rebal and Asher, both of them having eyes that pleaded for myth, he had a considerable grasp of the situation.

'They invested a lot of capital on producing the items, but they can't deliver it to the Elves in time.'

This meant they couldn't recoup the resources they poured into the production, which meant less liquid cash for them.

However, that wasn't all.

'In business, punctuality is key. If they don't keep their end of the bargain soon, it's possible that the Elves could go to another Company, which would be bad for business for the KariBlanc Group,'

Not only would they never recoup their profit, but it would take an extremely long time to dispose of the items in their stock.

Ultimately, this was the major issue that was ensuing.

"The Eastern Continent is quite a long distance away. Do you know why the Elves are interacting with humans now? Why are they seeking so many Enchanted Items in the first place?"

"They didn't tell us. But I suspect it's because the war with the Dragons has made them desperate."

The moment Rebal said this, Rey nodded in agreement,

That was his first guess too.

'Elves aren't technologically advanced and have no clue about industrialization. They are even often depicted as nature-loving entities who live apart from the corruption of beings like humans.'

To see that Elves were going as far as dealing with Rebal—-a Black Market leader—made him suspect that the difficulty had been cranked up in their domain,

"I suspect we are being intentionally sabotaged by the other three Obsidian Council members who joined Scylla's side. We've lost contact with the warehouse located in the East, and our packages delivered through any route outside the Southern Territories immediately become unaccounted for."

If this continued, their loss would be unbearable.

'They're in quite the pickle.' Rey thought to himself as he listened to Rebal go on.

'I can't say I blame them for being desperate. No matter how much capital a company has, profit is the lifeblood.'

And profit was gotten through sales.

Rey doubted the KariBlanc Group could make a lot of money just from exploiting the Southern territories.

A company whose scope of business was suddenly reduced to one-third of their usual commercial domain was bound to experience massive loss.

unaccounted for, and the whole

was inevitable that the company

they need my help.' Rey could feel a small smile forming

the Black Market to collapse, there was no way

the only place he had formed proper connections

the Black Market might still exist, but

see the appeal in helping KariBlanc.

I get caught up in a scheme that I do not understand, then

very smart. He wasn't that great of

very inexperienced and only knew very little about how

be getting used by the

at the moment, but Rey knew he couldn't

support them, he would be

to

he couldn't help but blurt out his

"Expansion?"

up and smiled a

enough capital. This might seem a bit strange coming from me, but… the Black Market is a really terrible

to hear all of this indeed. He genuinely couldn't believe what

and violent. It isn't a

about what he meant, Rey could

business perspective, it was much better to perpetuate trade in a more structured and orderly

but it was also incredibly risky and highly

mistake could cost

made a few auxiliary branches in mainstream to test out the market, and after

incident had to

moving to the mainstream, then it makes more

a second incentive for

However…

am curious about one

is it, Sir Ralyks?" As soon as

with him, making it difficult to distrust any of the

do you not

"…"

immediately, so Rey

your business would be protected and

Council Members probably figured

did the same, surely things would end well for

the Slave Union, she was always said to be the most ruthless. She's unprincipled, and I would never be able to work