Necron: The Legend Of Rezar DeathWind

Chapter 149: Merchants (X): Negotiations

The village chief's abode was a lot more cozy, there wasn't that much lighting to it, but it was comfortable enough to house Rezar's current guest, but given the look they had on their face, it was pretty obvious they didn't think much of the place. But then again Rezar couldn't blame them, these were severely rich people and comfort was something they were invariably used to. Gynaika was now present, along with Screet, and Lenore to add that intimidating factor, Alistair and Priest were there as supports, but then again they were his advisors. Kitagawa was outside by the door, ready to burst into the house should his king require his aid.

Well now that we've gotten the introductions out of the way, let us get down to business. We will give you an offer, and you can come up with a counter offer. Seeing as we've been doing this for a very long time, it stands to reason if we take the lead, this is a negotiation and anything can be put on the table. Are we in agreement your highness?" Tyrene asked as she stared at Rezar with a piercing look, holding his gaze without backing down.

And Rezar himself was not willing to back down as he held her gaze, his piercing blue threatening to shift into an annoyed red and gold, but he held himself and watched her with a wary gaze. Both her and her brother seemed extremely comfortable and he really didn't like that considering he seemed to have developed a quirk of having people be uncomfortable around him. It made him feel powerful, but then again that might be as a result of a sort of insecurity, but Rezar couldn't be sure, neither did he have the time to dwell on the intricacies of his psyche.

"Well that sounds like a pretty sound deal, as long as you don't try to pull one over my eyes or disrespect me, we will all lead this room in one piece." Rezar said with a small smile.

"Are you so vulgar and bras that your response to everything is with violence, I don't know what your standard might be, or those of the people that follow you, but that is normal redeeming or decking quality of a good king." Tyrene said with a sneer, and then Rezar raised an eyebrow at her and said.

"And what gave you the impression that I wanted to be a good king? You don't know anything about me or my, and just so we can avoid any more misunderstanding I would suggest you shut the fuck up and let your brother do the talking, seems like he's meant to be the talker as your bitchy mouth is making my violent tendencies itch for a worthy release, and believe Tyrene Crowe you will do just fine." Maybe that was a little too much on his part, but Rezar did not care, this woman after like she had a huge chip on her shoulders, and her stick up the ass attitude was pissing him off.

"My humble apologies for my sister's words, she's not really accustomed to hanging around royalty. But never the less we can begin the negotiation now, I trust we are all in the proper minds set for this meeting to commence?" Tyrese asked, to which Rezar nodded and said.

"Carry on."

"Very well, I will begin. The Crowe Merchant company would like to have vested stake in the city of Necron, you can think no of it as an investment of sorts to become shareholders of sorts, or at least be in a position to have a little monopoly over the city's commerce. As such we would like you to sell us land where we can build a market district. We would be in charge of the commerce of the city and give you stipulated tax of 15% monthly. Also we would transport materials to other cities, kingdoms and empires and give you access to people willing to buy for 40% of the overall profit.

Of ever better yet, you can sell the materials to us at 10% above the market price, and leave the reselling of it to us. That way you wouldn't have to stress yourself and we can take of the grunt work and the profits will just roll into your coffers. So that's our offer, what do you think." Rezar sat back down with a raised eyebrow, if he had to be honest he had no idea what all these percentages entailed, but he got the feeling he was being super. He turned his head to Gynaika and Alistair and it seemed those two had much to say and gave them the floor to do so.

"My apologies but that's extortion and you know it. Simple put we will offer you land to build a headquarters, it would be big enough to have a few stalls and a massive building, but nothing else. The commerce of Necron would be handled by it's officials, but we're willing to give you a place to carry out your trade. The monthly tax will still be 15% for every 3 months, on the fourth month the tax goes up by 10%.

We can sign a 5 year exclusive deal with your company to be the only merchant company we will sell our materials and resources to. And for natural resources we will sell it to you at 10% the market price, anything that has a magical nature would be 20%, and if we need you to transport goods, we'll pay for the transportation services as long as it's not ridiculous, at least before we star building ships of our own.

The deals can be improved to one that's more lucrative and much more enticing, but in order to get such from us you have to be willing to part with a few things that are extremely valuable to your company." Gynaika said as she finished giving a counter offer. Tyrene looked up at her and asked.

"And what is that?" but it was Alistair who gave her an answer.

"Land!"