The Industrialist

Chapter 135 The Promotion

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Lance understood Jaqi's predicament. She's just doing her job to go about all merchant stores auditing smuggled goods. Lance's predicament was he lacked the legalities of such materials.

Then he remembered the dummy business name for the procurement of Quantum Flux Capacitors that he could leverage as a temporary front for his Omnexus Market stall.

He named the business, Berkleys Inc., a company that would connect with legal customs brokers, which was also connected with the rebel faction or the Outsider market for that matter.

Lance went to the Sectoral Local Government Units under the branch of GLD to submit legal documents that were to be forwarded to Jaqi's office.

He used his leverage as one of the representatives of Customs and Border Defense (CBD) as the weapons inventor and a little bit of an 'under-the-table' scheme of about 3,000 units to the Desker back at S-LGU. With this, Jaqi's office sent a response letter to his Market business with a penalty of 20,000 units for selling merchandise that lacked documentation.

'Jaqi had been fair with her work even though he personally knew Jaqi," Lance thought.

The raucous grew about all the stalls in Omnexus market being issued the same penalty. All of them were selling bootleg products. The stall owners aired their frustration to their stall neighbors, not directly to the Committee for Illegal Scrap Use (CISU). They know the kind of power the Lerics hold, preventing further business pressure of almost unknown guidelines of the S-LGU.

His three days' absence in the office of BCD was backed up by his valid reason for raw material procurement. If they wanted to produce a high-powered weapon, then they would let Lance procure Masterworks and Rare-level components beyond the reach of legitimate sources.

He went back to the office as the Capacitors were delivered.

He declared it about 14,000 units each per Capacitor which would give him an extra 6,000 units for his own pocket. The e-blueprints were then handed down to the manufacturing team to proceed with the prototype.

With the available raw materials that he procured from various sources, the prototype building took only three days. The formation and fabrication of the casings were easily built by the available fabrication equipment. What gave Lance a challenge was the stability of the components – adaptive power core, Ion repulsor coils, arc igniters, and other intricate schematic electronic connections, and the fusion of the poisoned nectar to the generation of Kinetic Energy as its firepower. The Beast Bane Railgun supported the name. Its form and size were intimidating enough and could be sufficient for level 3 and level 4 Abominants.

"Now, aim at farther on the side, and let's see how far it goes," Leric commanded.

The operator followed as instructed and fired the railgun again but intentionally missing the wall. The kinetic beam flew right passed the large cliff wall reaching the dark overcast and creating a large hole in a dark cloud, with signs of descent.

"Impressive, Lance," Leric said another applause.

"With your given budget, how many can you make?"

"With a 200k budget, Mister Leric? I can make six of them. But with the available components and materials, we can make ten!" Lance said.

He had to point it out that the production should increase to sell off the collected Quantum Flux Capacitors.

"Let's make ten," Leric commanded.

"Copy on that, Mister Leric."

"Good job, Mister Berkley. With this, as promised. You will become a Weapons Division Supervisor, handling three inventors as your subordinates. Of course, your compensation will be tripled, 15,000 units a month. What say you?"

Lance agreed. He needed to climb up the Government ladder to garner more influence and control. He needed Leric to catapult his career and gain more units in the process.

"You are an Electrical Tier 1 right?"

"Yes, Mister Leric."

"You have the same position as Jaqi, my daughter. If you want to augment more of your scientific ranking, propose this Railgun invention of yours to the panel. I am sure they will be delighted to compensate with rankings and monetary value."

It was amenable for the inventor to propose his inventions. It would provide him a concept of a model citizen in the city of Axe Central.

"What's next, Sup?" Leric teased.

"What do you have in mind, Mister Leric?"

"BioBombs!" Leric said eagerly.