"...Sigh~ I knew you would mention this," the sage paused for a moment and then continued, "Our agreement was to move the Saints of the Royal Family to kill your enemies, did we refuse to do it when the time came? is it my problem that you managed to deal with the two families yourselves? We the Royal Family didn't break our promise, you just didn't choose to use it."
"That doesn't mean you don't owe me!!" Robin replied, "Of course, I can't force the royal family to do anything, but it will certainly affect our future business if you can't even pay for what you already took."
"....." The sage remained silent for a few seconds, "What exactly are those resources that you need?"
"I need energy stones worth at least 15 million gold coins, 50 kilograms of ice silver metal, 100 kilograms of a fortified gold metal, twenty liters of Illusory Winter Lotus Extract, a 250 kilograms of…." Robin kept recounting at least twenty other names and then added, "And I want them as soon as possible, the project must be finished within one year."
Robin didn't get a response for about five minutes, after which a voice echoed in his head, "Little friend, what did you get yourself into exactly? When you said 30 million you put the normal market price and didn't take into account that these resources don't *normally* sell at markets, these prices can only be useful in starting auctions on them, even 50 Million gold coins might not get you everything!
Secondly, the last of your problems is money, even if you have all the gold in the world, you may not be able to obtain these quantities of these rare minerals and resources.
you must search for certain people in this world as these quantities must be accumulated by their owners for thousands of years, or you should begin to buy piece by piece from dozens or hundreds of sources to collect them.
Third, our kingdom does not even contain a number of those resources and it is impossible to find more than 5% of the amount you need from those resources inside the Black Sun Kingdom,
at such pace, you won't be able to gather all of them even in twenty years even if you double the gold needed!"
"This…" Those words were what Robin had feared the most since he read their names, if even Sage Albert was saying this, then what would he have to do to gather them?!
"...Listen, I have a solution that will work for both of us," After another few minutes of silence a message arrived from Sage Albert
"What is it?! Please speak." Robin replied quickly, he had started planning in his head to postpone his journey to Nihari for at least another ten years at least!
"Of the 30 that you originally requested, the royal family will directly contribute 5 million gold coins, and, the royal family will also bear any increases above the 30 million, so even if the total amount at the end reaches 50 million gold coins we will bear the additional 20 million... This means that you are only responsible for providing 25 million gold coins. And I will take care of the rest, does that sound good?"
"25 million gold coins..." Robin muttered for a few seconds, "That's still too much to collect by just selling talismans and weapons... Also what about the resources themselves? Didn't you say some of them don't exist in the kingdom? how much time will it take to collect them all?"
"The Eight Kingdoms have had commercial and political relations since the world war age. Our relations with the Lying Water Kingdom and Dolivar have recently worsened after the strength we have gained... But our relations with the remaining five are not half bad, especially with the Kingdom of Garia, which lies on our northern border, they can be considered an ally even.
Using our relations with the royal families of those kingdoms I will be able to collect all those resources for you within a year, you don't have to worry about it, as long as you need them badly I will bring them for you.
As for the coins that will buy all of this... Sigh~ ok I'll make an exception for you since you are a strong ally of the royal family... tell me, you can make Minor Heavenly law Techniques whenever you want, right?"
"Yeah.. what does this have to do with our matter?" Robin asked surprised, Robin was already extremely pleased with the sage assurance about collecting the needed materials within one year, but the gold...
"From today, I will allow you to sell techniques for using the Heavenly Laws within the Black Sun kingdom without any restrictions from the royal family! but of course, you will give us taxes from those sales." announced the sage
"Really..?! I Can sell them to anyone I want?!" Robin felt as if lightning had struck him, his eyes widened, and stood up quickly
"That's right... to anyone." The sage replied curtly, as if for a moment he regretted what he had said but could no longer take it back, "The world has changed at a rapid pace since your appearance, and the emergence of a number of knights to preserve our new lands is not a very bad idea...."
The sage's last words seemed as if he was trying to convince himself of the decision...
Although he spoke the truth and wasn't lying to convince himself, the extent of the decision is certainly not limited to the emergence of new knights only!
The circulation of Minor Heavenly Laws techniques has always been under severe restrictions from the royal family, even families that produce a genius cultivator who can make a technique for his own family, the royal family forbids them from selling it or giving it to another family without permission or else they will face consequences they can't afford
Sage Albert allowing Robin to give techniques to some families in the new lands *even if under the influence of an oath* was indeed a huge exception for Robin, one that did not happen before in history,
The nobles rule the commoners.. that's how things have been since ancient times
And to *ensure the stability of the nobility system*, Minor Heavenly Laws techniques were always the preserve of a certain class of the people, and that class *nobles* governed the rest, if everyone had those techniques it will make them no different from the nobles, how would the kingdom run its society them? Who will listen to the noble families and respect them afterward?
The Sage's announcement was not limited to a way to bring in money... It is an announcement that will change the entire kingdom, and most likely he had already talked about something similar with the King before, or he wouldn't have dared take this decision on his own.
"Then everything has been resolved haha, thank you very much!" Robin almost jumped with happiness, this will be the most direct resource for quickly raising money
and it isn't even just about money anymore, this was his plan ever all over, this was part of his dream!
Finally, he can publish his works to the public without fear...