The Bustling Sugar Refinery

After Victor left the Agricultural Technology Institute, Rabik from the Commerce Department, who had been waiting outside, came forward to meet him.

"My lord Marquis, would you like to visit the Sugar Refinery or the sugar beet fields first?"

Victor thought for a moment. "The beet fields. Haven't a lot of merchant guilds from out of town come to buy white sugar lately? The Sugar Refinery must be full of people. I'd better stay away!"

Rabik nodded in wholehearted agreement. "The Great Merchant Guilds across the Vela Region have gone mad trying to buy our white sugar and the brown sugar we've just started making. The Sugar Refinery in Iron Birch Territory hasn't expanded its capacity yet and can't begin to meet demand, so most of the guilds have come to our Two Rivers Territory.

"Every day, the entrance to the Sugar Refinery is packed with people from outside merchant guilds. The moment a new batch comes out, they scramble for it, whether it's white sugar or brown sugar!"

Victor said, "Fill the orders we signed earlier first. We can't break our word in business."

Victor placed great importance on these merchant caravans that had come from afar, especially since a considerable number of the guilds had come because of his reputation.

After Victor captured Blackwater City and took charge of Wright County's defense, he had done business with many guilds from the Vela Region and even the eastern part of the continent. He had held the city for only half a year, but it had once been a major commercial and transport hub of the Grand Duchy. Though both sides had kept their dealings strictly to business, they had worked well together.

Thanks to those connections, Victor had also used that time to promote his territory's specialty goods to