Kill the Sun - Chapter 390

Chapter 390 Chapter 390 – The Yearly Meeting

Sadly, there wasn't much Nick could do about that since every Manufacturer was required to do that.

The only positive aspect was that neither Nick nor Julian needed to join guard duty due to their executive positions.

After all, Dark Dream needed to be able to run.

Assignments of guards were done in intervals of one month, and the first shift of guards would soon start.

Nick decided to send Clayton, Petra, and Jason for the first month.

According to what Nick had heard, working for the city was considered boring, which was often preferable to dangerous.

Most of the time, the guards only needed to walk around, stand in front of entrances, and do a couple of errands.

Sometimes, they also just needed to stay inside a room and be ready for any kind of emergency, which rarely happened.

Even more, working for the city meant working for ten hours a day, only five days a week.

Apparently, the Extractors got two free days per week, which was crazy.

Because of all these things, many Extractors preferred working for the city instead of Manufacturers.

Sadly, becoming stronger was impossible since none of the temporary guards would work with the city's Specters.

However, only the temporary guards had such an easy life.

The people who actually dedicated their lives to working for the city didn't have it as good.

They had to work more, and their responsibilities very often forced them into positions that were hostile to some powerful Manufacturers.

Guards rarely died, but it still happened.

Even more, below the surface, a lot of dark dealings were going on.

Clayton, Petra, and Jason would be sent to work with the city after Dark Dream moved into their new building.

The governor talked about a couple more topics, but they were not as relevant as the previous ones.

Eventually, it was time for Kugelblitz to talk.

The main thing they talked about was the blood tax.

Apparently, since the shortage of metal had ended, the amount of blood they were receiving had dropped sharply, and they needed a new way to gather blood.

Today's meeting was essentially just the baseline for any future negotiations.

Anatomy brought up a couple of topics, but none of them needed a lot of deliberation.

Ghosty's Lab once more announced some new equipment.

Gemini was asking a couple of questions, which led the conversation in a direction that suggested supporting stronger Manufacturers was better for the city than supporting weaker ones.

Of course, they were talking about finances.

While Gemini had led the conversation to the topic very naturally, everyone in the room, except for the three normal people, were experienced business people, and they could all tell what was going on.

Gemini was trying to make it harder for Solace and Dark Dream.

Solace's recent advancement had probably scared them, and they wanted to keep their lead.

However, the governor very quickly shut that topic down.

He would not consider financially supporting one Manufacturer favorably without something equally valuable in return.

Unfortunately for Gemini, they didn't have any leverage when negotiating with the governor.

They were not Kugelblitz, and they were not Anatomy.

Solace just talked about their newly advanced Specter and their expanding network for light and heat.

Nick just talked about Dark Dream's approaching relocation.

There was nothing else that Dark Dream needed to talk about.

And with that, the yearly meeting was over again, and everyone left.

Except for Nick.

After everyone left, Nick talked for a while with Ramona and Hera.

They were very close to each other, and this was a good opportunity to talk about a couple of details regarding their cooperation.

Eventually, Nick also left.

Within the next month, nothing of note happened.

And finally, it was time for Dark Dream to move.

They would finally move from the Outer City into the Inner City.Updated from novelbIn.(c)om