Chapter 150 - The Dorian Construction Company
When Lucius learned of all this, he was quite impressed and had asked what kind of a gift did these workers have as it seemed to be quite useful. He was sure that it must have been a rare ranked gift at the very least.
But then he then found out that it was actually only an uncommon ranked gift called Stone Meld. This was actually considered to be an inferior version of a rare ranked gift called Earth Meld.
The Dorian Constructions company that Kiana had talked about was actually the one that hat people with this kind of gift. They had at least five people with the Earth Meld Gift and several tens of them with the Stone meld.
This was the reason why they were able to finish building things so fast and efficiently. In fact, they were a benchmark in the private construction business in this world and a lot of masons and carpenters wished to join it.
But the requirements for joining them were far too high such that even if someone had a high manual skills, they may be denied due to not having the right kind of gift. But if someone was not skilled yet, they had the kinds of gift the company liked, they would be quickly recruited.
They could, after all, train that person once they were done with everything. The Dorian Construction company had no lack of talented workers that were considered to be one of the best at construction and had built various buildings across not only the Grantz kingdom, but even the other neighboring kingdoms.
Their history spanned over two centuries and they were a very prominent name. It was even said that the original founder of the company Dorian gained the then Grantz kingdom King’s favor when he built a long wall spanning over three kilometers in less than two days that helped defend a pass during a war.
The king had even offered to make him a noble, turning his family into officially ranked nobles. But surprisingly, the man had denied the king. While most people would have taken the offer and lived a life of comfort as a noble, Dorian himself had a different outlook for the future.
He had the foresight to see that becoming a noble of the Grantz kingdom might not be good for him and his company in the long run. What would happen is, that while he would be able to freely work across the Grantz kingdom, and perhaps would have even built a monopoly on the construction business, he would not have been able to take work contracts for the other kingdoms.
Being a noble of the Grantz kingdom would shackle him and his company to this very nation, as no one else would trust them with building anything that was of strategic importance or had a great value.
Having guessed this, the founder of the Dorian Construction company rejected the offer and chose to stay a commoner. But his choice turned out to be for the best as merely twenty years after that, he managed to get so many contracts that he got richer than any other noble of that rank.
Even now, his descendant’s wealth was comparable to a lot of nobles and their families. In fact, if Lucius were to compare the entire fortune of the Land Of Etara, perhaps it would not even come close to half that the Dorian construction company had managed to earn.
There were many others who had tried to replicate his success, gathering gifted that had gifts that were suitable for construction, but all of them were unsuccessful. First of all, to all the workers who were in the constriction business, the Dorian Construction company was one of the best places to work at that paid handsomely.
Thus, if they were worth their salt, they would be recruited by the Dorian Construction company first. As for the other construction companies, they would either have to pay these popes twice the amount that Dorian paid or have to bet on loyal employees.
Lucius had read up about them and researched on the Dorian Construction company quite a bit since he had found them to be quite interesting. Thus, one could imagine his surprise at finding workers that actually had the Stone Meld Gift.
Lucius just hoped that the brewery would be done as fast as possible. John hoped the same as he was spending most of his time there and only went back to his wife and daughter at night time.
But till then he was dead tired and his wife had complained a few times that he did not need to work this long. The thing was, John was not even being compelled to work this long. It was completely voluntary on his part.
Whenever his wife asked him to relax his working time, John would simply laugh and say that he was doing this for their bright future. After all, the owner of the brewery was going to be Alessa in the end… at least on paper.
Plus their new identities as nobles would be tied to this and thus John wanted to do everything in his power to ensure that everything went smoothly.
Thus, one could imagine his feelings when some thieves tried to break in and steal from the site. Had it not been for the steward there, the thieves might not have been alive right now. Still, it was not like they were fully safe, as John had cut off their hands without hesitation.
The thieves now rotted in the prison and from what Lucius heard, were interrogated quite well. This was to ensure that they really were just normal thieves and not some spies in disguise sent to look at what was being built.
This was all done according to the strict orders from the Count and thus the city guards complied with it. Besides, it was not like they would worry about the human rights of some petty thief, either.