Time passed quickly in this busy process, and the two hundred thousand dollars disappeared heartbreakingly in the process of constant spending.
As the ordered items arrived one by one, there was still no progress on the decoration of the grocery store. John had to help again and found a cheap and reputable decoration company to discuss the future decoration style of the store.
When everything was over, half a month had passed.
At home, in the basement.
The renovated basement is different from before. The rough cement walls are covered with white tiles. The placement of a series of processing tools such as machine tools, furnaces, engraving tables, and chemical supplies makes this place look like a small processing base.
Colin was standing on the right side of the wall at this time, holding a spray paint specially made by him, and applying the final color to a gorgeous and handsome Scarlet Queen's greatsword placed on a shelf.
Except for the first few particularly busy days in the past half month, he spent almost all of his free time every day on training his deputy job.
As he was creating and mixing several props and models, he successfully found the feeling in his dream.
Not only were the models he forged becoming more and more gorgeous and beautiful, even the last two-handed greatsword he forged could become a real magical equipment as long as he infused it with magic power and reconnected the alchemical patterns that he had deliberately severed.
At this point, even in the world of inherited memory, he can be called a qualified caster, and a relatively powerful one at that.
"Hey, I knew you were hiding here again. Today is the opening day of your new store. Can you please be more careful?"
The nagging voice came from the stairs. Colin turned around and looked at Joseph and John who were walking down. He smiled and said, "Aren't you two here? Since you are working for me for free without asking for money, I have to squeeze you a little bit."
"Fuck! You bastard are simply the reincarnation of Grandet!"
Listening to Colin's shameless words, Joseph cursed angrily.
Colin smiled nonchalantly after hearing this, turned around, and completely exposed the painted sword to the two men, and said with a little pride: "How is it? My best work so far!"
The sword body was made of metal and the handle was made of mahogany that could be twisted. After Colin pulled the sword out from the shelf with one hand and twisted it hard to imitate a game, making a loud noise, the two people who had known about Colin's craftsmanship a few days ago and were surprised by it for a while widened their eyes again.
"Oh! God, no no, how did you do that?"
Looking at the red sword blade, which looked almost identical to the one in the game, John asked in amazement.
"It's just some tricks, but it took me a lot of brain cells to make this thing. How much do you think it should sell for? This is the treasure I prepared for my store."
Colin swung it twice vigorously, making a sharp sound of breaking through the air. After carrying this pirated Scarlet Queen on his shoulder, he cosplayed as Nero and said.
"Such a realistic prop, I think someone would buy it even if it costs $20,000. Anyway, I am tempted. What do you think, Joseph?"
John, who didn't look like a Devil May Cry fan, stroked the sword which was obviously warm, then turned around and asked excitedly.
"Well, even though I think this thing is pretty cool, I honestly don't understand why you're so excited. Um, it's famous?"
John's face froze at Joseph's words. After seeing this, Colin couldn't help but laugh and said, "Okay, guys, let's stop talking about this. The price is $20,000 as John said. You should help me move all these things to the upper shelves now. I don't want to wait for customers to come in before we start to get busy."
Colin pointed his hand toward the wall. Including the Scarlet Queen, he had made seven props in the past half month.
However, he did not make other props according to existing models, but just used his own ideas.
After all, copyright is also an issue that cannot be resolved.
As for the Scarlet Queen
In this case alone, the company probably wouldn't bother to sue. Besides, he was planning to create a real magic equipment when he was making it, but later gave up, which led to the current situation.
In the future, such a thing probably won’t happen again.
"Okay, but I have to take the Crimson Queen up, and you go get the others."
John looked in the direction Colin was pointing, turned around, and snatched the greatsword from Colin's shoulder.
"Hey!" Looking at John's expression, Colin didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"That's not necessary, John. Although it's not easy to give you this sword directly, I can still make a complete set of Nero suit for you when I have time."
Colin said helplessly that John had helped him a lot, and it could even be said that he had spent his $200,000 and got the effect of $400,000. Since John liked some models that did not take up much of his energy, he naturally would not be stingy.
"It's a deal!" John's eyes suddenly brightened after hearing this. He really liked this sword. If it wasn't so unsuitable, he would have wanted to buy it directly.
"Oh, it's settled. I'll help you when I have time." Colin nodded helplessly.
"Hey, you guys, if you have anything to say, can you wait until you finish your work?"
Joseph, who had already walked up and down the stairs with the props in his arms, looked at the two people who were still motionless and said with a bad look.
Colin was suddenly inspired after seeing it. He patted John on the shoulder, gave Joseph a flattering look, hurried to the shelf, picked up the two props, and followed.
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When everything was ready, the store officially opened at eight in the morning.
Many people came to celebrate, most of whom were long-time neighbors and nearby vendors.
There were quite a few customers, more than he had expected.
After asking, we found out that Joseph and John printed a bunch of flyers at their own expense and found people to distribute them.
To be honest, he was very touched by this, but also felt a little helpless.
This shop is just a cover in his future plans and he does not rely on it to make money.
Even though today's sales reached nearly 30,000 US dollars (of course, the unexpected sale of Scarlet Queen was the key to such high sales), he still thought so.
However, since things have come to this, he can't drive the customer away, so he can only consider hiring an honest employee to help him solve the problem and give him enough time to do his own thing.
(End of this chapter)