While the Guild worked on their first few projects, Karl began to write out more basic designs on the board.

There were a few that always sold well, no matter where you were or who you were dealing with. The strength and skill damage combo was a given. That’s why they started with it.

But enchanting items for mana storage was even less common and more valuable here in the Immortal Worlds than it was back home. In the Mortal Realm, everyone just assumed it was a mage thing, so if they needed it, they went to the mages.

Here, entire Sects were based around a single combat style, and they viewed this sort of energy storage item as a rare relic that the dungeons rarely dropped.

They never considered that there was likely someone out there who could make it.

In fact, many of them wouldn’t even think to ask, as they hated the thought of relying on another Sect for goods.

That was a hurdle that the Darklight Host was going to have to overcome if they were going to build their clientele. Having what people needed was great within the New Home Merchant Clan. But that was only about ten thousand people who would actively want new gear.

If they truly wanted to expand their market, even as much as the Drodh Guild House, they were going to have to attract other Clans.

Drodh, at its peak, was nearly two hundred thousand people.

Sure, they were on a whole different power scale, but when you were looking at volume of sales, they had it covered.

Even with competitors all over town, The Darklight Host had done amazingly well.

That’s what Karl wanted for the branch here.

It didn’t seem like too much to ask that they should be able to get customers at least from the city of Condim, and perhaps even from the other major towns in the region. As he recalled, they should be Forvemiras and Cacheirinha.

Whoever named that last one was a masochist, he thought. But the majority of the New Home just called the Immortals there the Irina Sect, which was much more pronounceable.

Asking for customers from the Almeixei Sect was likely too much. They weren’t too much further away than Telheusto, though they were on the south coast of the peninsula. But they were a massive clan, and claimed over a quarter million Immortal residents of their city, all ostensibly in the same Sect.

They spent a lot of time training, and kept a standing army to enforce their will over the region.

That had been questioned recently, in their opinion, as the Gralpedrin Templars marched straight through their territory to get to the New Home Clan, and it had made them touchy about the subject.

They took that as a direct slight to their authority, especially when other Clans were going to join in without so much as speaking to them.

They didn’t care to protect the New Home, as they had only a surface level agreement with both sides. But they simply couldn’t tolerate that anyone in the region would think that they could do as they pleased and entirely ignore their power.

"Are these our next assignments?" One of the Lycans asked.

Karl shook his head. "Not exactly. They’re the items most likely to be bestsellers in the store, instead of the best items to ship off to the Clan for export."

The Elders smiled at each other, and one of the old men cleared his throat.

"You know, we have a number of young men in need of employment. Do you perhaps have the ability to impart weapon and armour making skills the way that you did for Runecrafting?"

"I can do leatherworking. I don’t have the forge skills to impart blacksmithing, but we do have Guild Members in a mortal world that can help make the gear if we supply the materials. I know that’s not optimal for the pack, but I can certainly get you some Leatherworkers to make light armour."

The Elder smiled. "That will be perfect. Many of us have carving skills, learned from passing time whittling wood on the porch. So, we can make quality wooden goods with magically produced wood.

An advantage of having many druids.

But our Leatherworkers are not at the same sort of level, and they’re not in the Runecrafting group either. So, helping them keep up will be important."

Karl nodded. "You can also work together. If they finish a piece, and then don’t finalize it with the System, you can add runes to it to improve the quality and specify certain buffs."

"Oh, synergy. A very proper Druidic concept, I like it. Should we call them here now? They’ve got lots of leather prepared, so if you can train them, they will be able to turn out whole new armour sets for the New Home in only a few days."

Karl nodded. "I will do the skill transfer, and then Lady Rae will help them with new designs. She is the specialist in both design and armour making."

The Lycans looked a bit dubious about it, but they had seen the silk that the spider had produced, and she definitely had the knack for fashion. If that could extend to making leather armour, they would be incredibly popular.

Most people wore a robe over their armour because the best pieces were usually mismatched, or just plain ugly.

If they could make improved sets that actually looked good, people would show them off, and it would help their reputation. No longer would people look down on the Blackwoods Pack, and their safety would improve along with the reputation of the Darklight Host.

The armourers came in moments later, accompanied by Rae, who had heard Karl’s thoughts as he was talking.

Unlike Opal, who was busy making sure that the people in the Tiny World were doing well, and enjoying the chaos that had resulted from giving random skills to bunnies, Rae had been focusing on her crafting.