Chapter 6: Back to Basics.
((Current time, middle of June, 2 years before canon))
((Rose Fennet))
If someone asked 3 years ago that a street rat from the corner of the slum outside Daedalus Street is going to change Orario, Rose would have laughed at them and say they're imaginative.
Well, Soren Ravencroft is no ordinary street rat… no, a Raven.
In just a year, he gained enough funding to change the slum at the east edge of Orario into a brand new economy center, housing the three great companies that took over the Construction, Security and Agricultural sector of Orario in one fell swoop. Some of the middling gods familia of the same business went bankrupt in just a week, and the major ones was damaged severely and had not fully recovered. They could not keep up with the business and service reforms lead by Orario's The Godfather. The mortal that took in low ranked no name gods under his patronship and raise them to greatness.
The era of gods raising personal familia guilds for fame and prosperity is over. Now is the era of corporations where gods unite under one banner. This is now the era, where gods no longer rule an organization. This is an era, where Man can rule the Gods.
The Godfather, Soren Ravencroft, is one terrifying bastard.
Rose Fennet sighed. Having been the advisor for White Raven Agency, the Guild had made the executive decision to assign her as the liaison between the powerful Corpo Lord with her new position of Executive Clerk of White Raven Group. Rose may have escaped the depression of seeing idiot Miners dying in droves, but now she has the headache of being dragged into the insanity that is White Raven Agency, the parent company of all White Raven's subsidiaries.
Damnit, she should have seen this coming and bailed when he come up with that Rookie Manual idea.
"heyo", she enters the office of the Corpo Lord who is now 18 years old. A middling Level 3 now. The true level of the Four Founding Members of White Ravens is a closely guarded secret, however most assume they're at least Level 5. How did they managed to levelled up despite rarely entering the Dungeon is unknown to her.
Soren Ravencroft as always are sleeping in his office. Not doing any actual work.
The man is an absolute genius. Somehow, he build this massive conglomerate and he ended up having to do no works. He only occasionally survey the operations of other companies and give some directions, but other than that, Soren had let his well oiled machinery to operate on its own.
It didn't take long for him to be a Billionaire.
Rose herself didn't want to work, so she lie down on the opposite sofa, closing her eyes to rest.
"This is nice huh?", Soren asked her, rhetorically.
Rose simply hums.
The bastard is truly an insane genius. Now, he has control over five major companies that dominates their sector. The 2 new companies he established a few months ago, White Raven Pharmaceuticals and White Raven Entertainment took Orario by the storm.
Originally, Soren had been satisfied to just stick with his 3 main business, but then, Ebih Pharmaceutical, a company established by Ishtar and Dian Cecht, starts to monopolize the potion market and cause the insane rise of potion pricing.
Other Medicine Gods had been pleading to open a company under White Raven for a year and some months, which Soren had ignored but one day, Soren came to her and said this.
'I cant believe I forgot Naaza exist. Doggo girl is great. Doggo girl is awesome. You know what, lets open 2 companies. One for potions and one for entertainment.'
And just like that, he bankrupted Ebih Pharmaceutical and also severely crippled the Red Light District. The potions, she can understand, but how did Soren beat the oldest industry in humanity history by introducing beautiful girl's sing and dance groups that you can never touch is beyond her.
And then there's the new literature form called manga he's producing now. The manga edition of Argonaut was a big hit and a game changer, causing a ripple effect called the Art Revolution. He even opened a new department in Entertainment called Illusion Studio and they're working on this mega project called anime and live action movies using the medium of illusion magic to work out their art.
She already seen some samples. Its going to be an uproar next week when White Raven Cinema is open to public.
As for the other Big Factions, they no longer openly fights against White Raven Group expansion. White Raven may not have Miners higher than Level 4, but they have the best private army in the city, perhaps the world.
Over 5000 Level 2s and 2000 Level 3s from many different guilds, united under one banner, equipped with state of the art weapons of the RnD subdivision of Securities and combat tactics curated by The Godfather himself, and commanded by Jaune Arc, The Heavenly General. The Private Army was aptly named as The Funeral Parlor, and to fight them is to arrange your own funeral. As if that's not scary enough, then there's the clandestine division called Shadow Ravens lead by The Shadowpuppy. You never seen them coming.
Apollo had declared a War Game once and Soren declined saying that his patron Malsumis had given him full authority and therefore cannot accept a War Game on his behalf. He however is perfectly open to declare an actual war right then and there.
The Apollo estate is now a crater. Enuff said.
The Big Factions had finally attempted a final gambit to take Soren down from dominance by Loki and Freya Familia joining forces to assemble an army to destroy White Raven HQ.
Soren proceed to say, nope, and take his own products as hostage and refuse to supply it to public until Loki and Freya Familia sign peace treaties under his demand.
Orario populace proceed to riot and force the two 'strongest familia' to step down and stop ruining their economy and Familia is so out of fashion.
That is the day that officially mark the end of Age of Adventurers. The traditional Familia system had been thoroughly beaten by the new Corpo system of the Age of Corporations. That was last week.
Soren Ravencroft has the Power of Economy on his side and there's nothing you can do about it.
Its rather ironic that a man that has no interest in hoarding money has such power over money. The reason why Soren business went so well is because he has new ideas, better products and superior service. And he is not afraid to reinvest his profits because he simply doesn't care about money. Which in turn give him massive profit in return and so he reinvest it again.
The Factions that's unable to join the White Raven Empire now conglomerate to make their own Corpos to rival White Raven, especially in sector the White Raven did not partakes in the market. However, Rose doubted the new Corpos can halt the White Raven conquests. Soren's strength is his insane, almost alien ideas and he has the capital to make it happen. He has now owned 1/6 of the city and he is projecting to stop at , where he took over the Central District.
"why did you call me, boss?", Rose asked.
"I dunno? Booty call?"
"Urghh, just because we slept together sometimes doesn't mean you can just call me anytime for a hookup. What we do outside business stays outside business.", Rose scolds him for his lack of professionalism.
"oh yea. Now I remember. Now here me out. The Tower is so far from Raven District. Like 30 km. And I got tired of riding shitty stagecoaches. So I'm going to open a new company called White Raven Motors."
"Let me sleep on it. I will deal with your insanity later." Rose close her eyes.
"Aight. I'm gonna sleep too."
(((Soren)))
My engineer team work quick.
In just 2 weeks, they came up with this prototype car. I've been testing it out and its pretty neat
I still blame Hephy for putting me on this path.
To moment Syr had greeted me on that fateful day, I had to make the executive decision to save my ass to prevent myself from being conquered.
So, before I get conquered, I conquered them first. Preemptive strike is the name of the game.
Now this fanfic plot is totally probably ruined.
Maybe I can find a Time God to send me back in time to prevent my stupid ass from that cursed pitch meeting and saved myself from thr insanity that is me being a Corpo Lord in Orario.
I tried everything to get bankrupt. Trust me. I throw out so many stupid ideas and money and somehow that turn into a genius economic move and give me back even more money. Somehow I had become a billionaire. I am so rich now that I can make fucking Freya and Loki back off by just holding my products hostage.
You fuckin Orarionese idiots! You're supposed to riot against me, not them! How the fuck you even made them back off?!! I was so confused when I meet Loki and Freya for the peace treaty signing!
Loki just go, 'I give up! You have the intellect beyond the divine!'
While Freya went catatonic the moment she sees my soul. Something about a Color Out of Space. Damnit. Does that mean I am part Outer God or something? That would explain why no gods can tell I was scamming them.
Everyone, am I…. am I…..
A master of Outstupid Maneuvers?
Nah, can't be. This isn't Surviving as a Nobody in Naruto. That's Makoto Hotaru's thing. Not me. My power is Ironman. I chuck money at everything to solve the problem.
I had already gave up to go bankrupt and become poor again. It just seem to make me richer instead. I definitely get the same curse as Jaune Arc. I keep failing upward.
Soren Ravencroft, suffering from success.
Should have know this fanfic would turn into nonsense the moment The Writer set Humor as this fanfic main genre. Can't believe he pulled it off. I thought he said he couldn't think much joke to crack Danmachi about.
But somehow, he did. He really is an insane motherfucker.
"the shock absorber system need some work. The springs are too soft", I give my comment.
"affirmative sir! We will make adjustment!" the chief engineer salute me.
Once Bell comes here, I think I read somewhere that the One Eyed Black Dragon…. Fuck that is a long name lets just call him Alduin. Anyway, Alduin will come in a year after Bell become a Miner.
That gives me three years. Supposedly Bell need to reach Level 10 to beat Alduin.
So you know what, fuck it. I'm done waiting for the fucking protag and hoping to follow up Canon. Forget butterflies, I had released fucking Mothra and the canon had went to hell a long time ago. My only choice for survival is to unite and modernize Orario, and optimize the Orario Dungeon Mining Operation and prepare the most broken army in Genkai.
Afterall, White Raven Agency started off as a mining company on the first place. Its time to get back to our roots.