Chapter Ninety-Six: Reopening the Potion Workshop
In the deserted castle on the outskirts, there are hundreds of mercenaries training, and the one who commands the training is one of the original forty or so elite mercenaries of the Avengers mercenary group. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
During this time, the Potion Workshop was still in preparation, but the Avengers mercenary group was constantly expanding, but the effect of the expansion was not ideal.
Although the treatment of the Avenger mercenary group is very good, it is not very attractive in the royal capital, and the mercenaries need honor in addition to the treatment! And the Avengers, as a newly established mercenary group, where will there be any honor? The mercenary group without honor is a blank slate, and it is not well-known in the mercenary world, and it will be very difficult to expand into a medium-sized or even large mercenary group.
Desai, Celie, Uncle Reiner, and Retdo are all trying to expand the mercenary group in the royal capital, but they are not satisfactory.
Only Reiter recruited one hundred and thirteen more mercenaries and became the first captain of the Avengers mercenary group. According to Ark's vision, the mercenary group is composed of squads, squadrons, and brigades.
Originally, an ordinary mercenary regiment had ten people in a squad, and a squadron had three to five squads, with a maximum of fifty people, and a brigade was the same, with three to five squadrons, with a maximum of two hundred and fifty people.
But Ark's formation of the Avengers mercenary group was ambitious and destined not to be an ordinary mercenary group, so Ark was formed according to the framework of a large mercenary group from the beginning.
A squadron is still only ten people, but a squadron can have ten squadrons, and the number can reach 100 people. A brigade can also have ten squadrons, up to a thousand people.
There were more than a dozen old mercenaries before Retdo, and then he recruited another 113 mercenaries, and the mercenaries under his command had exceeded 120. As a result, Retdo has successfully assembled a squadron of mercenaries and is currently forming a second squadron, and Ark immediately fulfills his promise and appoints Retdo as the leader of the first brigade of the Avengers mercenary group.
Most of the mercenaries under Retdo's command are currently being trained in the manor.
As for Celie, Desai, Uncle Reiner, etc., the most recruited mercenaries are only about forty or so, so they can only be squadron leaders.
Yak is absolutely fair in this regard, which is also conducive to the competition within the mercenary group, at least now Celie, Desai, Uncle Reiner and others are holding back their energy, wanting to recruit a hundred mercenaries to become the captain.
As for Lorraine, not a single mercenary was recruited, this is because Ark has more important things, that is, the preparation of the potion workshop, Lorraine is Ark's senior brother after all, and he is also a pharmacist, who can prepare many potions. Ark and Lorraine were preparing a large number of potions in preparation for the reopening of the potion workshop.
At this rate, it will probably take a long time for the Avengers mercenary group to have a full team. However, Ark is not in a hurry, the potion workshop has not yet opened, and he does not have enough financial resources to support a full team of mercenaries.
Yak has been preparing for a long time, and has also prepared many kinds of potions, even special potions, after all, this is the royal capital, unlike a small city like Kansley, where most of the nobles of the entire Duchy of Fennan are concentrated, and there are many, many people who can afford special potions.
Therefore, Ark must be ready before he can reopen the potion workshop!
Three days later, Ark finally chose a shop, the location was very good, the original owner was ready to leave the royal capital, so the shop was transferred. However, the price is not cheap, after all, this time is different from the past, the Kingdom of Feinan was in danger in the past, but now the Kingdom of Feinan has become the Duchy of Feinan, with the support of the Blue Star Kingdom and even the Alliance of the Twelve Kingdoms, and the Wesk Empire will not be able to defeat the royal capital in a short time. As a result, commerce in the royal capital has gradually recovered, and shops in good locations are naturally very expensive.
But Ark doesn't care, the potion workshop sells potions, which belongs to a profitable business, as long as the potions continue, then the potion workshop is a cash cow that can make money continuously.
The potion workshop opened, and Ark had no foundation in the king's capital, and there were no big people to cheer him on, and even Mr. Mercury did not come in person, but only sent some gifts.
But as a person in the era of the information explosion in another world, even if he has never done business, how can he not know some means of doing business?
Ark's solution is also very simple, he sent all the Avengers mercenary group to build a huge ring in front of the apothecary workshop, and then let the mercenaries fight in the ring.
A brawl between a few people is not a big deal in the king, but dozens or hundreds of mercenaries fighting in the ring is a new thing, and such a movement soon attracted many onlookers. Some of the mercenaries would immediately leave the ring when they were injured, and then use the potions of the Potion Workshop in public, and the good medicinal properties were also displayed in front of everyone.
Although such a big movement attracted the patrol of the royal capital, and then dispersed the mercenaries, and strictly ordered the potion workshop not to hold similar events, Ark did not care, because his effect had already been achieved.
Sure enough, with this ingenious event, the popularity of the potion workshop expanded rapidly, and at least ushered in a good start, and the potions on the day were all sold out, even those expensive special potions. Jean Arc lamented that the royal capital was indeed the richest place in the entire Duchy of Finan.
If it were in Cansley City, not many people could afford to buy these special potions.
However, as the business of the potion workshop got better and better, Ark had new troubles, because he was the only one who made potions with him and Lorraine, and even if he didn't rest all the time, it was actually in short supply. How many potions can two pharmacists make?
Ark posted a job posting for pharmacists and potion apprentices, but it didn't work, and even potion apprentices were very rare.
Ark and Lorraine can't bind themselves to the tedious work of dispensing potions every day, Ark also needs to research all kinds of special potions, also needs to collect information about spellcasters, and also needs to exercise mental power, and Lorraine doesn't want to mechanically prepare some simple potions every day, he also wants to become the captain of the mercenary group.
Therefore, recruiting some smart teenagers and training them to become pharmacy apprentices has become the most important thing in the pharmacy workshop at present.