"Report, Governor, I have a question!"
After finishing John's exploration scam plan for the ruins, a flickering-eyed Lunebo did not chime in right away. Instead, he pushed up his glasses and said in a deep voice, "While the feasibility of your plan is quite high, if we only offer pie-in-the-sky rewards as initial gimmicks, we probably won't reach our goal of attracting a massive number of adventurers."
"After all, Faoken is still a bit too far from the human kingdoms, and adventurers are notoriously people who won't scatter the hawk without seeing the rabbit—"
"That's why we need to build momentum~"
Before Lunebo could voice his worries further, the expecting John raised a hand to interrupt him, then wore a meaningful smile on his face. "Currently, we have three large multinational chambers of commerce cooperating with us, along with well over a dozen small and medium ones. In the future, I will commission Ostan Family, West Family, and Perus Trading Company to promote Faoken's ruins exploration project externally during trading activities to achieve our initial publicity."
"Once the preliminary publicity is in place, that will be the time for Mage Soldiers to step in. We'll train suitable Mage Soldiers in advance so they master basic adventurer knowledge, then use their flight capability to head to major taverns across various countries to spread rumors that a complete ancient ruin has been discovered in Faoken, reinforcing the authenticity of the exploration project."
"At the same time, we'll arrange a few "lucky dogs" to loudly display ancient magitech jewelry found in the ruins"—just whip up some random magitech devices and make them look aged, then have those lucky dogs pull off a few sky-high bidding wars at underground auctions controlled by our partners."
"By then, those adventurers attempting to reach the pinnacle of