Ch45.Death Match Preparations.

After arriving home, I quickly call Birdhead into my office to get an update on the situation. Although I haven't been gone too long, I see that I already have 20 VIP's that are interested in the fight tomorrow. This is an unexpected result because from my previous experiences, although some VIP's have come to attend a couple of my cage fights, they have mostly just come because of the free tickets that were given to them. Only one or two of my VIP's actually got hooked on the event and come almost every week to have fun and watch some fights. These guys are what you would describe as typical 'Young Masters' who rely on their parents' wealth and are constantly looking for exciting and interesting things to do.

I have made a point to have some of my clan members to befriend these types of people. There are multiple reasons as to why I have made this instruction but mainly, it's because they don't understand the value of money so I can get their money by simply playing to their ego. By granting them an illusionary benefit like 'image' and allowing them to look important in front of crowds of people, allowing them to view the visible envy of those crowds. The other more hidden reason that I have given this order is because in many of the novels I have read, these are the people who get away with anything, since their parents are willing to bail them out from just about anything.

If I can get these guys under my control, in time when or if they actually grow out of their Young Master phase, then I would have built up a solid ally and can greatly increase my network of connections.

I have a few long term plans laid out with regard to these people and I will start working on the mediumly powerful families I have multiple plans laid out to first use my connections as well as blackmail, that may or may not be related to me or caused by me, to slowly take control of these families and thus build up a great background strength for my clan. I know all my plans are at the very very initial stages and that I will have to wait many years before I can even think about actually gaining this 'power'.

Now moving on, ever since my men have contacted some of these young masters, most of them have been very interested in such an intense show. I have made sure to emphasize that this event is very exclusive, limited to only VIP's and invites from VIP's that we know. After finding out how this new event is going to be, these Young Masters have become even more enthusiastic, going so far as to invite quite a few of their friends in order to appear 'special' since their 'friends' can only be granted by them. Although I am not too keen on them just inviting some random people, as long as they pay the exorbitant price and my plan for the event goes smoothly, these extra 'unknown' people shouldn't be too much of a problem.

After realizing that I may have more people attending than I had previously planned, I have decided to take advantage of this event to earn an extra large amount of profits. I quickly went over to the brewery that has been expanded quite a few times in the last few months, I then contacted Nafets and asked him whether he has recently made any new type of alcohol, that had both a very high alcohol percentage as well as is limited in the quantity available.

After hearing my question he thought for a while before leading me to a certain storage area. He then directed me to one area while telling me that he has one batch of a wine type spirit that he created a while ago wile experimenting with different brewing methods. He then further explained that, according to his standards, this is a failed batch and he created it while he was experimenting with some rice wines.

The particular batch he created has a very high alcohol percentage, being around 85% vol. He then explained that the reason he considered this a failed batch, was because it doesn't tastes great and that although it is drinkable, it makes you drunk too fast and therefore prevents him from being able to drink it all day. He then put the batch he created aside incase he anted to use it in the future to mix with something else.

I don't really mind that this alcohol tastes bad because after I had a little sip, I discovered that it is just very bitter and not completely undrinkable. With a little bit of flattery and false advertising, I will make sure all the VIP's attending my event understand that this is a very high quality alcohol and that this is the only batch that gets created every six months. I will further promote this by saying that it is an acquired taste and only the true wine connoisseurs will be able to appreciate this 'extravagant' wine. I will then move on to provoking them by saying that if they don't like it, it is either because they can't handle their liquor or they are too poor to understand the greatness of high quality alcohol! 'I honestly can't believe I haven't thought about this sooner!!'

After hearing Nafets finish his explanation on the various specifics and about how this is not a good alcohol to be sold, all I can do is sigh, 'geez, anything that makes him drunk after one or two bottles is considered a failed batch, which is crazy because he is a dwarf with a crazy high alcohol tolerance, so anything that makes him drunk on one bottle will make a weak human drunk on one or two glasses or even less.'

Since I have been able to find an acceptable alcohol, I tell him to send the batch over to my house and to make a note next to the formula he used to create it. If my promotion works out well, I will be able to start selling this as a very high quality alcohol, reserved only for the rich. Although he only made one batch of around 100L, it is more than enough for what I have planned.

After gaining confirmation from him, I then quickly contacted one of my protection clients that works with pottery and with the help of some extra funds and some magical equipment, she has expanded quite a bit under my protection. I will therefore take advantage of her improvement by having her create some high quality clay jugs, cups and bottles. I gave her some designs that look like the jugs you get sake in as well as some other designs I have thought would appeal to the rich in this city. After ensuring that they would be done by tomorrow afternoon, I left her shop and started planning for the event.

For the rest of the day I was running around arranging everything for tomorrow, I went so far as to go and find one of the students at my academy, Royoisy, who is decent at artifact creation and Rune inscriptions to make me some specially designed invitation tickets for tomorrow's event. I didn't want to waste too much money on the invitation tickets as I needed to make a profit on the sales of them. I therefore, just asked Royoisy to make sure that invitations could be bound to a specific person and could not be transferred to anyone else after they were bound. The binding process is a fairly simple process and uses quite a common Rune. The Rune works by linking someone's magical energy to the Rune, and it is completely useless if you don't have any Magical Energy. I have decided not to cater for anyone who doesn't have Magical Energy because if they can afford a ticket, then they should at the very least have one Rune created.

Other than organizing the tickets, I slightly adjusted my arena to accommodate more people and have started training my clan members on how to act when the serve these young masters. I want them to flatter them and make these rich VIP's feel 'special'. Luckily this wasn't too hard of a task and as long as we act accordingly and make sure to always keep out clients happy then everything will proceed smoothly.

My only concern is if any of the rich youngsters get drunk on the attention they are getting and go too far . Now in the event that a anyone acts unreasonable and 'acts out', I have multiple plans in place to deal with them. These plans include inducing a type of sleeping alchemic solution into the VIP room, after knocking my guests out I will then forcibly feed them an excessive amount of alcohol, strip them down and throw them into some random alleyway. After they wake up they will find themselves very drunk, unable to walk straight and basically naked. They should still have the ability to stumble home, but after getting home they will either be too embarrassed to mention what happened or they would not even remember due to blacking out.

I have multiple other plans in place to protect my benefits and can react to almost any situation. I just hope I don't actually need to use them, as most of them involve wasting quite a large amount of money on the resources required to carry out these plans.