Dominic looked through the reports. It was good to see that the food business was making some good enough money. The mana stones created by him added to this revenue. Essence food was indeed something good that any race would like as eating such food would directly increase the strength of the body from the basic atomic level.
He had also planned to invest in many companies to get a stake which was first forced upon him by the nobles who bought goods from him in bulk in a routine manner. They needed safety and without any marriage alliance or proof that he would stay in Rome, they could only give him some stake in their business for exchange of goods so that he would not break his promise unless he really wants to lose money. Contracts signed using magic does help reduce betrayal unless someone is willing to pay the price of violating the contract to stab the knife from behind at the right time.
This did open up a new idea to him which was to invest in others. As most of the investment was done through magical contracts, this did ensure that no one would lost out the investment unless the one who invested wanted to get punished. The best method for an investor to ensure the lack of betrayal was to write the clause that upon breaking the contract, they shall lose all they have gained due to that investment.
So he planned to invest in many wizard apprentices as he did need to many connections who were not his slave. If he wanted to conquer this world through enslavement, he could simply have enslaved every human present. There would be no need for any politics or social or economic actions. He would just need to lie down and wait till he is strong enough as his strength was expanding in an exponential manner without any limit. His dream of human supremacy can thus be obtained easily. But that was not the case for his life as after he enslaves the whole world, what was he to do. Was he to just lie down and eat all the food? Was he to sleep with the best women present? Was he to try to torture them if he wanted to be a sadist when the slaves would have no feelings of anger towards him at all?
Although the very reason he wanted and walked on the path of human supremacy was since he was a human. If he was born an elf, he would have walked on the path of elf supremacy. If he was born a dirty goblin, he would have walked on the path of goblin supremacy. But that does not mean that he wants to destroy humanity. Humanity full of slaves is not humans. Humans need to fight each other. Humans need evil ones and good ones among them. Humans needs fools and humans needs smart ones. Humanity was one of the few that came into being due to them having a human body. For him humans were not someone who had a human body and humanity was not a collection of beings having human body. The world had bloodline corruption and bloodline modification spell which was purely based on blood attributes.
For him, humans were someone who had the human body, was born in a natural manner to a human that exists in the current human society, grows up in any manner and even if he is a traitor, he shall be a human. He surely knows that if he goes to another world beyond the 7 planes and finds beings who match human genome code, have similar appearance and behavior, they will not be humans for him as the possible combination of behavior that can rise for any being existed in a human body was limited, Humans for him should be someone who had grown up in the civilization full of knowledge, character, rituals, superstitions and languages of the current human civilization. Even if a man and women miraculously go to another world and starts a new lineage and returns after millions of years, he would not consider them humanity.
This was one of the reasons why he was not willing to corrupt and enslave those who betrayed him. They are humans and they lived as humans and they betrayed as humans. They shall suffer for the rest of the life as humans.
So when the idea of forming an army had come to him, he had not thought about forming an army of intent slaves as he wanted them to have fear, wanted them to fight for their lives, wanted the possibility of rebellion and then lead them by manipulating them with a stick and carrot.
So he decided so and made a lot of plans to invest in many talented ones and form an army of humans. As for his army of intent slaves, they shall exist as a backup option in case of betrayal. As after they betray, they shall be enslaved in body, they shall be tortured in both body and mind,
So when he saw a lot of possible talents, he planned to invest in them by signing the contracts. He thought about that girl he had met that day. He thought about why she had not come to him. She was once a student of the academy and if he was to play by the rules, she had to be sponsored. He hoped she would come to him as otherwise; he might have to enslave every one of her relatives other than her to manipulate her towards him.