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

to contact her with regards to possible cooperation with her

ranked

what better backer was

diamond-ranked guild, no one would dare touch my company. Especially not when it was sponsored by the number one

wouldn't really pose a problem for me as I knew her character well. As I've

me one. After all, I did

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

an easy

hard since she would also gain another source of income. After all, financing her research

after contemplating for a long time, I headed back to my dorm to sort out

do a

...

-Click!

"Huuu..."

to my dorm, I quickly slumped down on the white mattress of my bed. The way

my bed, staring at the white ceiling of my room, I

I

as that was exclusively for the top 10 students, perhaps there was a chance I could be upgraded

did rank highly, I would stand out even more. A

the world play for a second-rate team.

of my rank, I needed to change my room. Even if I had to pay for the

needed my own private

stand the training grounds anymore. Especially since I had to hold back whenever I trained there as I had to be careful not to reveal the sword art

art was extremely sought after. Probably on the same level as

I needed to

'magic card', set up company, somehow contact Kevin with regards to going to Immorra, Reach

"Ughh...Shit"

head with both hands, I couldn't help but

of the things I needed to get done by the end

"Huuuu..."

minutes of self depression, letting out an exhausted

let's just solve one problem

about life. Might as well get everything over with fast so that I had fewer

of all the things I needed to do, I first chose

it, I wouldn't be able to

"Where is my stuff..."

I rummaged through some of my drawers and took out a

I quickly drew the

behind magic cards wasn't that

cards that had spells engraved on them. Moreover, what made them special was the fact that they weren't a one-time-use

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

on my phone and

the production for each card. 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

"30,000 U..huh"

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