'Til Kingdom Comes - The Banished Prince Vol 3: The Prophecy

Beauty World

"That's great dear...! So you had managed the meetings very well and right now there would be more items that I might bring in from the realm as well as the memories that I had previously by my other selves."

"You can sort it out since there are things like the beeswax, olive oil, salt of Hartshorn and also coconut milk and coconut oil that would need to be ordered and procured."

"The items may arrive in God knows when and by the time it comes, we would then be able to make a few samples before we proceed, am I right dear?"

I concluded as I am very satisfied with Heather for handling the matters efficiently without my assistance since as there are a whole lot more products that I would like to introduce to the market, thus making Heather be extremely busy these coming few weeks.

She was happy to be able to partake in the tasks that had been assigned for her and she also cannot wait to see the samples that would be brought in once the main blender machine had been successfully constructed.

"Well dear, you had already begun to get the samples done for the items that you had concluded in the meetings for the past days and get ready there would be more things to be introduced. So, tell me, what kind of items do you want me to bring in?"

I asked Heather since she is the best person to let me know what are the items that would best to be introduced into the markets.

Since she had never been out of town since we had set up the settlement before, she might not be exposed to the items that were currently being sold in the upper market places in some of the towns and cities.

No matter, I do not blame her but only myself since our town had been exporting most of our products to other towns and only import in those essential ones that would be used by our Bakeries and Greasy Spoon. Other than that, we limit our imports thus our exports outbalance the profits for our Treasury.

"I'm not so sure my dear, but I think the encyclopedia revenge C would have some tips on cosmetics, I believe."

"This would be used to give guidance on what we would be needing to introduce into the markets."

"I think Marcel or Maricel would be able to let you take a look at their personal journal of products sold in Corral and you could at least have an idea on what you would like to produce."

I mentioned to Heather as she nodded her head in agreement. There had been 7 items that would be waiting to produce a sample and once the items are ready and approved, the factories would then be constructed and manpower would be sourced out somehow from our community that had not been deployed as well as neighbouring ones.

"So dear, you plan to expand the populace here as well, I presume?" Heather inquired and I agreed with her since the adventurers had long gone to chart the maps and people would be curious to know.

Definitely, there would be throngs of people coming in to be part of the citizens here after taking up a temporary residency here first.

Besides, we have a lot of houses to be filled up by the current 700 odd new residents that made up of the households of the militia invalids, Romani Gypsies and the new batch of the Irish Travellers as well.

"Alright dear, I guessed that you would be heading to the study to enter your realm afterwards? Be seeing you soon dear, don't take too much time over there, okay?" Heather advised me and all I could do was smile back at her.

She grabbed me and kissed me hard on my cheeks and I giggled like a small girl while returning her kiss as well. She then sauntered inside the bedroom and dimmed the lights as she got to wash up and change into her gown.

I cleared up my journal and I went to the study where I had cleared the area before and saw my 'SHOUT' skill book literally untouched and set it aside on the study table properly instead of leaving it lying around.

I sat down cross-legged on the floor and began to meditate and do some breathing exercises before Ceres sounded in my head and asked me if I wanted to know more about the products that I had produced before.

"Proceed, Ceres. Thanks for asking..." I replied as I entered a vortex and a few set of flurry images past me until I got to the one that had been picked by Ceres.

I was once again in my other Audemars self and I could see him tinkering around and was seen at the production plants nearby the castle. There was an outdoor kitchen area too and it was well more organised than mine.

However, the layout of the grounds was unlike ours since my other self had to purchase the lands and construct the buildings accordingly.

I saw my old self talking to a rather young man and I guessed he was also part of the family circle as they both were quite affectionate to one another.

It was just like the time when my old self was a rather young boy and had a young man as a companion and they both acted like brothers in arms.

"Prius, my brother in law, we need to have this list of ingredients so we would embark on our expansion of products and services for Beauty World. I had gotten Pointus and Joan to work together so that we would be able to achieve the list of products that we need."

I saw my other self talking to his brother in law in this parallel universe and they seemed intent on making more products than ever before.

The name of Beauty World strikes a nice chord since it rhymes with beauty products. Maybe I could use the word Beauty World to represent our town's products, no?

I listened to them carefully and discovered that they were actually discussing the upcoming products as well as the ingredients.

I sauntered near them and knowing that they can't see or sense me at all, I began to take out my journal and began to write down the notes furiously as they began to chat.

"Prius, do take note that we have the following products to be churned out at the production plants once we have the ingredients ready. These are the makeup foundation, eyeliner, lipsticks, eye shadow, blusher and nail polish."

"There would be a single colour for the makeup foundation, a single colour for the eyeliner, 11 solid colours for the lipsticks excluding 2 shades lighter and darker, and the same goes to the eye shadows, blusher and nail polish."

"The colours would be violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red, white, black, gold and silver. So overall, we would have 6 new products which come in 46 varieties of colours to choose from."

I had taken down the basic notes that were being narrated by my other self and were surprised that this era had so many health and beauty products. I wondered if they carried any food products like the one with my other self who was much younger.

Since the term Beauty World was emphasised, I guess the products were mainly aimed at beauty and non-food products.

I didn't manage to go through the production plants much but from the scents coming from the production plants, I knew that my other self here concentrated mainly to make things more beautiful. Hahaha.

I started to wonder if my other self here involves himself with battles or small confrontations like Robin the Hood. If not, he would be such a bore in this parallel universe as he only deals within and around the town.

The more I reflect on the other-self, I discovered I was like him too and found out that I had more special abilities and more activities to do rather than concentrating on beauty products, am I right?

Besides, I have Heather with me to handle such matters and she seemed to be the best candidate so far.

I watched the other self and his brother in law and happened to walk away. I decided to follow them and see where it would lead me thereafter.

"Audemars, certain products would be hard to procure in the real world. But you could make do with the type of ingredients that's available."

"Rather than to find out how thugs work and so on, it would be best to concentrate on readily available ingredients that the Alchemist would be able to help you out."

Ceres advised me as I replied to her telepathically. I wonder what kinds of ingredients they would be talking next since I am following them to someplace God knows where.

"They are heading to the botanist and alchemist, Audemars. This parallel universe is much more advanced just like the ram world of the future."

"Somehow they could manage to procure certain items and the ingredients that you may stumble upon are in their scientific names."

When Ceres mentioned this, I discovered that I really need the references required to dig up more information.

True enough, after walking through sone buildings and alleys, the duo had reached a place that looked like a garden filled with herbs and a bespectacled man was inside it tending to some plants. This must be the botanist Ceres was mentioning about.

"Good day, Pointus. So far how is the colour pigments that we require from you to make the necessary beauty products? Those are the basic colours and that would be able to make a wide variety of products sought after by the ladies."

I heard my other self addressed the botanist as they chatted. They were talking in some unknown measurements which Ceres later helped me to calculate and define what they were talking about.

After some time, I knew I had to find someone who would be able to do these colour pigments when suddenly Ceres highlighted to me that Hendry is the best person to find out the herbs that would be able to produce such colour pigments.

I let out a jubilant cheer when I heard about it and I knew in one step closer to the target that I wanted to achieve.

Next, they went to another building across the botanist and Ceres mentioned that it belonged to one alchemist by the name of Joan and is somewhat eccentric in nature.

"Good morrow, Miss Joan, how are the ethyl acetate and an organic polymer that we had asked from you? Do you have the sample for us to test?" my other self greeted the lady and she was literally flitting around her messed up place that was filled with beakers, test tubes and other kinds of apparatus. No wonder she is such an eccentric...!

She was mumbling to herself and I observed she had taken out 2 small beakers and I could smell the wrong acrid smell that was emanating from it once she had opened up the lid of one of the beakers.

"Be careful...! Don't shake this content unless you want the whole place to go kaboom...!" when I heard that I stepped away slightly even though I knew that I won't get hurt in any way when I'm in this realm.

Besides, Ceres didn't mention to me of the possible dangers and hazards in the realm that would affect me since what she had shown me was all a set of images and the scene that was playing before me was part of my memories that was still locked in the back of my mind.

I saw my other self tested one of the contents and discovered that he was contented. He then checked the other contents of the other beaker and rubbed it on the top of his finger and discovered that that's the product he was looking for too.

"This is going to be great for the perfumes since a little bit of this would diffuse the scent of the perfumes and also make it more lasting."

"Combining heavy base notes and the middle notes of a perfume, these ladies would really love to have them ready in their little handbag of theirs."

I don't know who the ladies by other-self was talking about but I'm sure my other self is not that romantic person after all.