Chapter 498: Business
No one knew that Rana is hiding this much animosity and ambition within him. All his peers only knew that he has no standing in the family, at least as big as the one Gnyan had.
But it seems like that he is more than what they thought he was.
Rana agreed to Fidi's proposal not because he wanted to get his father's attention when he understood Sam's characteristics and the consequences of his actions, he didn't want to use this to propel his position, he wanted to destroy his brother's standing first.
He only targeted the betting section this time, but Yodha's actions made his job easier.
He lost all the compassion towards his peers in the family, his father, and the elders.
The time he was dropped into the Arena he decided to make sure that he would destroy all the chances for the family and make himself the only choice as the family head. Unless they can kill him without a care in the world, they can forget about letting other candidates have a shot at the family head position.
He waited for the right chance because he wanted to get a right breaking point so that he can penetrate the barrier holding him down.
Now, Arena has become big, he can get his own resources and he also destroyed his brother. So, his next step is before the hype dies down, he has to use Sam and the rest of the special fighters like him and make as much as he can.
He has to make the most out of this and reach his goal no matter what.
For that, he would do anything.
All the people in the city knew that he is an impulsive and angry kid with no power and schemes. They are right to some degree.
He cannot scheme behind people's backs with elaborate steps and plots like his brother, but he is not going to.
He only has one scheme and that is to not show his cards until the last minute.
So, he was patient and let them think he is the person they thought he was. Found the right time and it is about time he breaks it up.
He got more than three hundred million spirit stones from his brother at this moment and he is going to get more.
After he returned to the Arena office, he received the spatial ring that contained the bet money from his proxy.
Yodha has sent this back. He sorted the money and took out two hundred million from it and sent it to Sam.
Now, he moved to the documents on his table.
These are the requests from the Gold-ranked and Silver ranked fighters of all the divisions.
They are requests regarding their matches, they also want special attention like Sam, so they also want to fight against multiple opponents of the division.
But the thing is most of them are choosing Iron Level fighters and the Bronze Level fighters.
Nobody wants to challenge multiple silver-level or multiple gold level fighters.
But still, it is great.
Finally, he picked up a document that is kept separately from the rest of these documents.
It is a document regarding Sam's fight request, and it is not just for the next fight. It has a series of requests for the next five fights of Sam.
And the first three are easy to make because they are one against five fights with Bronze level fighters.
But the last two are against the silver level fighters.
He wants to fight even the silver level fighters in the same way. Challenging multiple opponents at the same time.
After some thought, Rana still approved of this. Now that the betting system is temporarily gone, he doesn't have to worry about losing money and can focus on earning money easily.
After approving everything related to fights, he found a note on the table. It is from Sam and he wants to talk to him once again.
He thought for a moment before calling an attendant and asked him to bring Sam here.
The attendant nodded and ran fast as he brought back Sam in just a few minutes.
Sam was offered a seat and Rana asked.
"What do you want now?"
"I have a business proposition."
"Business? What would that be?"
Sam took out a blueprint and a prototype and placed them on the table.
Rana looked at it and went through the blueprint before taking the prototype.
The prototype is a crystal tab and a small crystal that was embedded in a groove on its back.
As he pressed the crystal in, a video was played on the tab.
Sam then gave him another crystal and asked him to replace the one in the tab, when he did that another video was played in the tab.
Rana was stunned, he didn't expect that there would be this type of device. Even though holographic projections are good, they are not really that great when you are watching a fight. Even though they can get a three-dimensional view and such, the recording crystals are not really giving the same experience as the live one.
That is why, the screens are a better option, but the screens cost a lot of money.
But now that he saw this, he was intrigued.
"What is the plan?" He asked Sam.
Sam smiled and started explaining how this thing works.
The crystal is a recording device he made. And it is a variant from the surveillance system of the Bee puppets.
He modified the blueprint a bit and now it can not only record things, but it can also share the recorded things between the same device and the tablet can be used for looking into these things.
The combined job of the recording crystal will be divided into two and even the perspective will be limited.
But this thing gives the clarity of the scene the recording crystal cannot give and at the same time, the cost is reduced by a lot.
Sam's plan is to record the fights in them and copy the fight into some limited number of crystals before selling them to the audience.
The cost will be the same as the entry ticket for the fight and a little more for the cost of the materials. The fights will be exclusive in these recording crystals as the audience is not allowed to use the regular recording crystals.
So, if they really want to enjoy the fight many times, they have no choice but to buy this product, particularly the tablet. With the presence of the tablet, they will be inclined to buy more of these crystals so that they can put this tablet to use.
This is just a simple shopping trick used by corporates on the public.
At first, they will release an irresistible product to the public and makes a condition that they have to buy a not so useful product along with it, they couldn't resist the temptation and would buy it, later after the excitement was dead, they will think that the extra product has gone to waste.
At this moment, the corporates will release something else related to the product that would make it look more useful.
Now, Sam's plan is, they would make an extraordinary fight and make it so that they buy the crystal and the tablet. But after they got bored of the fight, they would think that this tablet was being a waste at that time, they would sell the other fight crystals and they would buy them.
After explaining the idea and getting approval from Rana, it is time to think about the price.
"What do you want for this?"
"A partnership? Five percent on all the profits that comes on this."
Sam said calmly.
"It's a lot, how about three? After all, you are not going to do anything other than provide the blueprint, the raw materials, the production, everything else is my responsibility."
"But I still have to train your workers to get the production and manufacturing right, before this thing can make a profit. So, I think it is reasonable."
After a tense negotiation, they finally agreed on four percent.
Sam shook hands in congratulations and got ready to leave.
"Fidi said, you gave away half the bonus, why are you earning so much then?"
"It's for the joy of earning. I feel excited to earn as much as I want, it is to prove myself that I am capable, as for giving away, there is no point in accumulating so much in my situation and position."
Rana pondered for a bit as if trying to relate to Sam.
Sam left the place and went back to the residence. All his way, he was greeted by the attendants in a friendly way.
Soon, it is meal time and Sam went to the staff kitchen along with Arman.
There some interesting news fell on his ears.
That is about Gnyan's punishments and also the news about Yodha who Sam is curious about.