Reincarnation of Audemars - Who Am I...?

Setting Up Beauty World

The abandoned house had got a new name now on the minimap. I had also paid 25 credits to register the business and had left all the other details empty since I hadn't gotten any employees yet.

The 'Beauty World' has been properly christened and had already undergone its renovation of the patches on the roof and the birds had been relocated to a place to properly roost. The Piped Piper of Hamelin, Germany had been called in and all the rats were following him wherever he went and played the pipes and brought all the rats out of Ingmery as well.

The furniture had been burnt outside since it was already been infested with termites and bed bugs. One of the connecting walls of one of the bedrooms had been torn down to make it as a single room.

One of the doors had been taken down and replaced with a glass window with a film of a one-way mirror. A set of louvres were installed all around the room and the house to let the draft in and was covered with a mesh chicken wire so no birds and rodents would be able to enter the premise anymore.

The roof had 2 sunroofs of light blue colours to let in the sunlight and eliminates the use of any lighting during the day. With the louvres installed around the external walls, the house seemed airy and fresh.

The exterior of the house was painted with a water resistant, enamel type of off white coloured paint. It took 4 men about one day just to complete the whole works of renovating the house and this labour was paid and provided by the City Council.

Once everything was done, the next thing is furnishings and the only place that I need to buy furnishings from was either in the Northern or Southern District and they were all equally priced.

Patricia had prepared lunch earlier and we invited the workers to have lunch together before they head back to their office. After lunch, Patricia and I walked over to the decor shop in the Northern District and enters a place called Dawood Decors.

"Good day, sir, ma'am. What can I help you with? We have 3 ranges of furniture, the basics, contemporary and exquisite designs. Three levels of class and three levels of prices." the owner greeted us as we enter.

"I need a basic long table with 5 chairs and 10 square cushions that are filled with Ceiba Pentandra  Do you have those?" I asked and as a furniture man, he should know that Ceiba Pentandra is a Kapok Tree that has cotton-like seeds.

"Oh yes sir, we do have in abundance. Its the 2nd cheapest material fillings for cushions, pillows and mattresses. The first I think you would be smart enough to know because it's filled with air..." replied the owner named Dawood.

I was shown to a long table that would be used as a production table and several chairs and cushions as I paid them after haggling with the prices with delivery on the same day.

"Don't you need any other furnishings? Just a table with 5 chairs and 10 cushions?" asked Patricia after looking at the minimalist needs of mine.

"Yeah, that house is normally meant for production, other than that it would not need anything else. Furthermore 'Beauty World' has quite a large space on both sides of the house and I intend to grow some flowers which would be used for the production. Lavender and citrus would do just fine." i said as I had marked out 4 plots on both sides of the house for both of the plants mentioned.

"So you would still be staying with us right? And how about the children?" she asked since I do not buy any beds or any equipment for the kitchen.

"Those children would be the employees and you would be supervising their work. Is there pottery or glassblowers here that makes small bottles?" I asked and Patricia led the way towards a pottery store.

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"Good day, what could I help you with?" Paul the owner greeted us as we entered. "I'm here looking for samples of your pottery pieces and was wondering if you mass-produce them," I said as I looked at his pieces of pottery the at was displayed around the store.

There were quite a lot of variants and types of curing these clay and since I had the knowledge in the past series, I am able to differentiate the methods of curing these pottery clay pieces.

"Oh, the available pieces are here. What do you need it for?" Paul asked as I held a piece and placed it back again and started to peer around for the kind of pottery bottles that I need. Some were of fine porcelain while some were of finer clay with all the glazing and such.

Then I found one, a very simple small-mouthed jar, almost flat and it looked like the modern everyday shampoo dispenser shape without the dispensing unit of course. In place was a stopper.

It was greyish white in colour and looked like an ornamental piece since it was beautifully glazed and had a design of small flowers at its sides near the bottom. "Is this piece porous or non-porous?" I asked since we would be using it to hold the product in there.

"Ah... It is non-porous sir, it is our last piece here, and we don't really mass produce for these pieces. Its an offer for you sir, 75 credits." Paul said as I haggled the price down to 50 credits which he eventually agreed.

"Just one is enough? I though you need like a hundred or two?" Patricia eyed me again and was surprised I ended up buying just one piece. "Well, as what the good man said here, it's the only piece left here."

I reasoned with Patricia and little did she knew that it would be multiplied soon enough. Hah Hah Hah... I had an evil grin on my face and I had horns coming out from my forehead and I looked somewhat like 'Hellboy' already minus the cigar.

"Trish, I need a cart, a large cauldron that can fill as much as 100 l****s, four lavender and four citrus plants, five 10 litre barrels of coconut oil, four 10 litre barrels virgin unscented olive oil and one 10 litre bags of lye."

"Could you get this for me and have it delivered to 'Beauty World' please?" I requested and I passed her 5000 credits so she could purchase them and keep the balance for the operational costs.

"I will meet you back at 'Beauty World' alright? I would be doing something in the room later on and I will give you a surprise soon after you get back." I said as I made my way back to Central District as she made her way to get the purchases ready.

I reached 'Beauty World' and locked the main door as I entered. I went to the room and sat down cross-legged on the bare floor and meditated and went to the Realm of Mind. I entered the Fusion Chamber and placed the porcelain bottle inside one of the slots. I pushed the slider to DUPLICATE/MULTIPLE and chose to make 1 on the counter.

I closed the door and cranked the lever. "Hah... If I knew I could have a fusion chamber when I was Himura Kenshin, I don't need to spend so much to contract the pottery and glassmaker." I thought to myself as this is considered as a 'hack' and not a cheat.

*Ding* Duplication Process Complete. 1 no of Porcelain Bottle Attained. Progress +1%

"Haha... It is a success..! One bottle... Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah..." and I expected the clouds to turn dark and lighting to flash across the skies accompanied by thunders just like Count Dracula from Sesame Street.

The duplicated piece was automatically sired in my storage and I took it out and examined it with the one inside the fusion chamber. "Wonderful... One piece 1% progress. I'm going to make 999 pieces first then." as I kept the porcelain bottle back in my storage and adjust the counter to 999 and pulled the lever.

*Ding* Duplicate Process Complete. 999 nos of Porcelain Bottle Attained. Progress +999%. Level up 555/100,000. Level up Intermediate Crafter 1/100. Allocated point +100.

I heard the announcements and it would take more than this to Level up to just 1% of my overall level. The whole process took approximately two and a half hours in the Realm of Mind and when I had completed the process, I took 20 wooden crates leftover at the Refined Steel Plates production zone, immediately logged off and went back to the real world since the time at the Realm of Mind is 3:1 compared to the real world.

I set 50 porcelain bottles in each slot of my storage and then I place them all inside the wooden crates. And once I've done that, I materialise them and stacked the 20 crates in the far corner of the room.

The moment I leave the room and unlocked the main door, Patricia was already standing there and the delivery of all the goods that I required had arrived. I instructed all the items to be placed at the preparation room which was the main section of the house, while the plants were placed at the designated plots on both sides of the house.

"Thank you so much, Trish... You're really great help." I praised Patricia for a job well done within an hour and took the details of the men who had delivered the raw ingredients. I reached out and patted Patricia over the head and she purred like a kitten.

"What about the balance? There's still more than 4k left."

"Just keep it for Operational costs in the future. This is only the first batch that I would like to test. Furthermore, the surprise is already waiting for you in the corner of the room." I simply showed her the 20 wooden crates stacked at the far corner of the room and she entered and let out a shriek of surprise.

"Audemars...!!! How did you manage to get so many of these porcelain bottles? You bought just one piece and now... You've got crates of them...!!! How did you that? Are you a sort of magician or something?" she asked as she went from one crate to another like a buzzing bee and checked out the crate boxes and counted each one of them.

"Ssshhh... Keep your voice down, Trish. I am in between of an alchemist and a pharmacist and I made Pointus famous overnight. This is also part of wizardry and I could be able to duplicate items as large as body armour that I had worn the other day."

"Its a trade secret of mine and I could virtually duplicate almost anything but not precious items like gold and gems or anything as big as a goblin planked shield."

"If I am able to do that, I would be the most hated cheater in this world. Just imagine I just spend time duplicating like 20,000 of those goblin planks and sell them for a total of 1.2 million credits. There are things that I could manipulate but there are things that I simply can't." I explained as to why sometimes I would meditate and would be able to conjure these items easily.

"Ok, I don't want to know what you would be doing when you meditate, but you could duplicate things right? Then, in this case, you could make one and then you could duplicate thousands of pieces, right?"

"You don't need to have employees to do at all. Hmmph... If I were you, I could duplicate it and watch the credits roll in." Patricia looked at me with her hands on her chin and I can see imaginary credits floating above her head right now.