After Swindler Megan told everyone present all the tasks World Economic News Agency journalists needed to complete, the benefits they could enjoy, and other information, she distributed the certification documents signed by the 'Finance Minister' and second-gen Magic Net rings to everyone.

"With these documents, you're respectable people commissioned by the kingdom's Finance Minister to work throughout the country. Passing through any territory or town, you won't need to worry about inspections. From now on, you're the freest of freemen."

While distributing these documents, Swindler Megan said steadily: "But going to different places earns different salaries. Going to border regions gets you border subsidies. Going to the current southern territories gets you war zone subsidies. Going to several severely cold areas in the north with year-round snow gets you cold weather subsidies. When the Month of Heat comes, some regions will have high temperature subsidies... Every place is slightly different. You can say effort and reward are always equal. This is the World Economic News Agency's salary distribution standard."

"Tomorrow when you leave, you'll also receive operational funds. These funds are enough for you to reach your assigned regions, enough for you to live there, enough for you to do many, many things—even bribe some lords and knights. But I want to say this—at year-end settlement, the more you have left, the more rewards you'll receive."

"Of course, for the ten people with the least money left, if you don't have legitimate reasons that the brothers can accept, while we won't dock your salary, bonuses, or subsidies, I'll require you to streak through Magic Power Square for an hour! During rush hour!"

Everyone actually knew Swindler Megan was joking, but to get more generous bonuses, quite a few people still got some ideas.

"Next, everyone needs to choose where they're going." After distributing everything, Swindler Megan pulled out a map of the Kingdom of Dawn. It wasn't very detailed, but it was sufficient. "Once you make your choice, then for the next year, you'll be responsible for that region. Everyone needs to be mentally prepared to face their specific locations."

Naturally, they couldn't let everyone run around randomly. Otherwise, aside from subsidies being hard to figure out, if news all came from the same place while some places never had any information, that wouldn't work either.

Originally, Swindler Megan had prepared for everyone to argue about location assignments. Unexpectedly, the whole process went very smoothly. Some people wanted adventure, some liked stability. Plus, the area was huge and they were understaffed, so almost everyone chose the region they wanted.

At parting, Megan gave one more task—find suitable people and, if possible, bring them back to the territory to recruit as new members. In the future, they'd need more and more journalists.

Just like that, everything was completely settled.

The next day, Dwarf Tom and dozens of others left Roster territory with their documents, following some merchants' caravans. At almost the same time, another group of scholars entered the 'World Economic News Agency.'

Worth mentioning, among these merchants, some Golden Merchant Guild personnel had already appeared. Though relatively rare for now, wanting to encompass every place still needed some work.

But even so, these were already very impressive results. How long had it been? Those dwarf elves were really moving fast to earn gold!

Of course, the reason for such rapid movement was also because the plan written by Viscount Roster was reliable enough. The Golden Merchant Guild was different from other guilds—almost no risk, no layer-upon-layer exploitation, no withholding of goods, no various creatively named extra fees. What work each level of agents needed to complete, how much profit they could make—all written clearly. Everyone signed contracts. If anyone at any link violated the contract, there was a dedicated department to handle it.

For this era's merchants, it was practically heavenly music. Especially in regions where some lords had already joined, becoming lower-level agents and terminal sellers was too good. With lords giving green lights, working for lords—what problems could there be?

With good luck, you might even have the lord send troops to escort you.

Even more dreamlike, the prices at which the Golden Merchant Guild purchased various Magic Conductors in Roster territory and druid potions in the Elven Kingdom were just too cheap. Incredibly cheap. After being transported through the Golden Merchant Guild's trade routes, prices remained quite low. This way, even though agents at all levels made money, what customers bought was still cheap, quality stable, packaging neat... What more was there to say?!

Even if some nobles were curious how these things were produced, they wouldn't make things difficult for these low-level agents, because nobles knew they were just sellers. Rather than offending them and being unable to buy cheaply priced goods, better to join if you can't beat them.

Precisely because of this, the Golden Merchant Guild expanded to dozens, even hundreds of territories every day.

Having journalists follow them would be much more convenient.

Standing at the castle's peak, watching people leave one by one, Viscount Roster couldn't help but show a slight smile. Maybe it was just his imagination, but he felt he'd once again laid a powerful stepping stone for the magic-tech industrial era. With this, it would definitely have very good results.

"My lord, should we first publish some news about the territory, or Magic Conductors, or druid potions? Many people online already seem to have noticed this feature and started using it." Swindler Megan stood beside Viscount Roster, seemingly quite anxious. After who knows how long, she finally spoke.

"No, wait a bit longer. Wait until information from farther away comes back, then you can start. News about Roster territory and Magic Conductors can be published afterward. As for druid potions and the Golden Merchant Guild, domestic matters can be published after a while, but the Elven Kingdom part needs more waiting." Viscount Roster seemed to have planned this long ago. After hearing her words, with almost no hesitation, he directly stated his plan.

To completely separate the 'World Economic News Agency' from himself and make it a 'fair' third party, Viscount Roster thought they still needed to wait.

As long as his plan proceeded smoothly, the 'World Economic News Agency' would definitely become the most credible, most outstanding one in the entire feature. No need to compete for the position of publishing information first.

Besides, they couldn't compete with everyone in terms of efficiency anyway. You had to know, Magic Net users were mostly people with certain authority. If they wanted, just posting about their own territories would each be a news story.

What he wanted was the one with highest credibility and widest reach!

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