The Author's POV

Unaware of the attention I was getting from a certain instructor, I walked back to my dorm.

My mind was currently preoccupied with something that I had been meaning to do since back in the northern district.

...start my own company.

I had long realized that financing myself through one-time cash endeavors wasn't going to cut it.

I needed a more long-term solution. Something that would last me for a long time...

Hence why I was currently in deep thought.

I already knew what I was going to sell. It was a product that was still not out yet. A revolutionary product as some might call it.

'Mana cards'

A concept that only appears in the latter half of the novel, and sweeps through the market like a storm. Something that both villains and heroes crave.

An item that enables people to manifest spells without the need to actually learn the spells...

According to the timeline of the novel, it was currently only in the developmental phases. No, rather, it was probably still not there yet. Perhaps only the idea was there, but no one actually decided to go through with it yet.

Though I didn't know how to fully create them, as I never went into too much detail in my novel, I knew a general concept.

What resources were needed to create the cards, and the general concept behind how it worked.

Moreover, I didn't actually need to know all the details with regards to how to make them.

That wasn't my job.

...That was someone else's job. I would provide them with the concept and they would develop it for me.

That was the first part of my plan.

Of course, having a product wasn't the only thing required in order to set up a company. Though crucial, there were other things I needed, such as an outlet to protect and add value to my product.

Something that would give my company both protection and publicity.

...fortunately, I had already thought of a solution to my problem. Get a backer.

A backer that could both protect my product from competitors as well as bring a good name to it, and I knew just the right person in mind that could help me.

Thus, in order for me to carry out my plan of creating a company, I needed to get in contact with two people.

Melissa and Amanda.

They were the two people that would play an instrumental role in creating the foundation of my company.

I needed to contact Melissa with regards to the creation and development of the cards as she was the only person I knew who was smart enough to develop the product

Amanda, I needed to contact her with regards to

Diamond ranked

mean, what better backer was

would dare touch my company. Especially not when it was sponsored by the number one ranked guild. An almost

a problem for me as I knew her character well. As I've said before, Amanda always paid

me one. After all, I did save her

that she owed me one, I was sure that the deal would go through as it would also

an

she would also

the end, after contemplating for a long time, I headed back to my dorm to

do a lot of

...

-Click!

"Huuu..."

white mattress of my bed. The way back to my dorm was uneventful. Nothing really

the white ceiling of my room, I couldn't help but

I would be granted a better

in the 'Leviathan' building as that was exclusively for the top 10 students, perhaps there was a chance I could be upgraded to the Manticore or Hydra buildings?

if I did rank highly, I would stand out even more. A top 100 student in

footballer in the world play for

my room. Even

my own

I had to hold back whenever I trained there as I had to be careful not to reveal the sword art I was

Probably on the same level

of all the things I needed to sort out by the end

up company, somehow contact Kevin with regards to going to Immorra, Reach E rank,

"Ughh...Shit"

my head with both hands, I couldn't help but groan out

to get done by the end of the month gave me a massive

"Huuuu..."

ten minutes of self depression, letting out an exhausted breath, I sat

one problem at a

in me complaining about life. Might as well get everything over with fast so that I had

I first chose to complete the basic

all, without it, I wouldn't be able

"Where is my stuff..."

my

I quickly drew the rectangular

concept behind magic

cards that had spells engraved on them. Moreover, what made them special was the fact that they weren't a one-time-use item. They could be used many times before needing to be replaced by

powder...Tulif leaf extract...Orc bone

I turned on my

This way I could get a better idea of how much I needed to invest for the creation of the first batch of cards which I would present

"30,000 U..huh"

thirty minutes of research, I managed to get an approximate calculation of the cost of creating a card. The spell on the card was