Published: March 12, 2025
Chapter 174: The Sin of Holding a Jewel
Zhao Hai and the others were exploring the marshes, while Casa City was also experiencing unrest, not due to any issues with the Versailles Family, but because of Laura.
Laura's business had grown significantly compared to before. Her Blood Lotus Shop now accounted for over fifty percent of the daily necessities market in the entire Versailles Principality, which was quite an astonishing figure.
For a principality, even though the Versailles Principality wasn’t very large, its daily necessities market was a substantial piece of meat. Now, that most desirable part of the meat had already been consumed by someone. Just imagine how much money that person could make daily; describing it as "earning gold every day" would not be an exaggeration.
A piece of fat meat just sitting there makes anyone want to take a bite, but this piece of meat also has bones, and not everyone can chew through it.
However, just because outsiders cannot bite into it doesn’t mean that family members can’t. This time, the ones targeting Laura were none other than members of the Magedel Family.
Although Laura's father was the second heir, their family’s elder clan leader was still alive, which was Laura's grandfather, Soth, who was Klein's father.
This grand clan leader ruling over the vast commercial empire of the Magedel Family was not someone easy to deal with. He was a pure businessman; every person and every situation, in his eyes, was business and merchandise. As long as the price was right, he could sell anything.
Furthermore, this grand clan leader had a business sense beyond common imagination and employed extremely ruthless methods. Since he took over the Magedel Family, the family's business had expanded significantly.
Even though the Magedel Family's business was quite substantial, it was still unprecedented for someone like Laura to almost monopolize half of a principality's daily necessities market. It could be said that Laura’s income was considered quite high among the heirs of the Magedel Family.
Such a situation could not be overlooked by this grand clan leader. To be honest, he was not very fond of his second son, simply because Klein disliked doing business.
In the eyes of this grand clan leader, if you were born into a family like Magedel and didn’t learn how to do business, what did you want to do? If Klein only wanted to study magic and excel at it, that would be fine, but Klein was not one to be interested in magic itself; what he liked to study was magic circles.
If Klein had a passion for magic, there would be nothing wrong. Even if he didn’t like doing business, he could still become a powerful mage, which would be a great help to the Magedel Family. Instead, he merely preferred researching magic circles but lacked considerable strength, at most only reaching the level of a seventh-level mage.
A seventh-level mage was already quite remarkable for an ordinary family, but for a prestigious family like the Magedel, it fell short.
Precisely because he didn’t value Klein, coupled with Klein's disinterest in doing business, he had lost the possibility of inheriting the family head position early on, allowing him to be assigned to such a remote place as the Versailles Principality.
The geographical location of the Versailles Principality in the Aksu Empire wasn’t optimal. It was situated to the north, adjacent to the orcs. Although the orcs weren’t causing trouble now, there was no guarantee that a major disaster wouldn’t happen one year, prompting them to cause chaos again. Moreover, the orcs themselves didn't have much money, and the commercial development in the Versailles Principality wasn’t very advanced. Compared to the entire Aksu Empire, the Versailles Principality was merely a remote little place.
However, even in a remote area, people still needed daily necessities, and Laura was excelling so much that the products from Peach Blossom Spring were no longer limited to the Versailles Principality but were sold all over the Aksu Empire.