Otaku Witch

Chapter 1877 - 964: Overbudget and Business

Within the Shining Territory.

"Ah, the most glorious thing is laboring people."

Dorothy wiped her forehead of the non-existent sweat and looked at the nearly completed huge Alchemy Workshop in front of her, sighing with emotion.

At this moment, she was wearing construction gear, a safety helmet on her head, and a towel for wiping sweat hung around her neck, although it wasn’t much needed.

Her Dragon Witch physique really became more and more exaggerated as her Magic Power grew. Even though she moved bricks for almost twenty hours a day for this past month, even multitasking at times, she truly didn’t sweat much at all.

Yeah, this Dragon Witch physique is naturally suited for construction work.

Fortunately, the hardship of this month wasn’t in vain, as six nearly top-tier Alchemy Workshops were all about to be completed.

These Alchemy Workshops were all personally drafted and designed by her, using the highest quality materials for each one, fully equipped, guaranteeing no quality issues for tens of thousands of years, and she even pre-reserved space for future expansions and upgrades. All in all, everything was quite perfect.

The only little problem is...

"Little Fairy, even though I know your design is definitely perfect, and the construction techniques are excellent, these six Workshops are the best I’ve ever seen, but I still have to remind you once again, we are just at the start-up phase of entrepreneurship, and shouldn’t take too big a step. In the early stages, there’s really no need to pursue a one-step achievement, directly aiming for high-grade equipment."

Senior Mia came to the construction site with the accounting book. She wasn’t bothered by the dusty environment, sitting next to the Homebody Witch, handing her a bottle of water with a face full of helplessness as she spoke.

She couldn’t help but feel helpless because the original factory budget had been exceeded again and again.

Initially, everyone agreed that out of the 100 billion startup funds, 50 billion would be used to complete the Alchemy Workshop’s construction, leaving the remaining 50 billion for production costs, enough for the Workshop to produce the first batch of goods. This way, they could grow bigger exponentially after that.

But the plan was beautiful, execution was brutal.

Now, nearly 500 billion has been spent. Don’t ask where the extra 400 billion came from, the Golden Princess feels a bit tired, as the money she managed to earn with great difficulty this month was all poured into this bottomless pit.

When the budget was just exceeded, Mia thought it unnecessary to disturb the Little Fairy in her performance, as she was both designing and moving bricks, working every day until exhaustion. Notably exceeding the budget a bit? She could just supplement it with her own money.

But as she kept supplementing, she had to face the fact that her earning speed couldn’t quite keep up with the Little Fairy’s spending speed.

After all, she’s no longer the Golden Princess who could effortlessly splash around hundreds of billions. She’s also at the starting stage over here, and doing business requires money in all sorts of places.

This cherished person is somewhat hard to support.

Fortunately, she finally gritted her teeth and persevered until the successful completion of this first phase of the project, now coming over with a gentle reminder to the Little Fairy that she really needs to be restrained.

However, while speaking, Mia looked at the towering and magnificent new Workshops ahead, filled with industrial aesthetics yet not lacking the mystery of Alchemy, and couldn’t help but marvel inwardly.

The Golden Country is adept at Alchemy, and she herself was once the chief of the Alchemy School in the Witch Academy, so she naturally had a discerning eye. Yet, Mia still felt that the semi-completed Workshop in front of her was the best she had ever seen in her life.

Or rather, this thing can’t be described as an ordinary building anymore; it’s the prototype of a Marvelous Architecture.

You could only say, no wonder it’s the handiwork of the Little Fairy, she always astonishes everyone with one stroke.

"So beautiful."

Mia couldn’t help but sigh with emotion.

But the next moment, she shivered as reason returned.

Let’s be honest, a Marvelous Architecture is obviously great, nobody would dislike a Marvelous Architecture, nor refuse it. But as she said before, as a newly founded guild, is it really necessary to start with something that only a giant financial consortium could afford?

This scale of Marvelous Architecture isn’t even common in the Golden Country, yet here you give me six at once, and they can even merge into a super Marvelous Architecture if necessary. This is indeed too ambitious.

"Uh..."

Hearing Senior Mia’s words, Dorothy was also stunned, and then immediately began to sweat profusely.

Oh no, busted, her old habit acted up again.

This past month, she was having too much fun, her construction addiction flared up. Initially, she really intended to design an ordinary but functional, high-cost-effective plan, but as she was drawing the blueprints, her damned inspiration started to run wild, with various whimsical ideas flooding in, ultimately leading to construction results completely different from her original expectations.

She was so busy doing the work earlier, and whenever anything was needed, she would just write a note to Senior Mia, and those High-Level materials would be delivered instantly, even more efficient than a wish-granting fairy, making her completely forget about this budget matter, focusing entirely on creation.

But now seeing Senior Mia personally coming to remind her, she immediately came back to her senses.

Yet now looking at the semi-constructed Workshop in front of her, even someone like her, not very knowledgeable about market prices, realized this thing definitely exceeded the budget, and not by just a little.