How I Accidentally Built a Kingdom Chapter 16 - The First Plan

Novel: How I Accidentally Built a Kingdom Author: AJMercer Updated: Jun 02, 2026

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Now reading: Chapter 16 - The First Plan from How I Accidentally Built a Kingdom, a Fantasy novel by AJMercer.

Welco back everyone!

Julia told that I should hurry it up with my part of the story.

She’s really excited to tell you about our first official tour of the village.

I completely understand why, I an I was soo romantic that day.

Of course I was romantic!

Can’t you rember?

I held your hand the entire ti.

I picked you a flower.

We kissed under the stars.

I think that’s pretty romantic.

Don’t listen to her, she just can’t rember everything right now.

Why don’t you want to tell the story just because of that?

Of course that’s more important than my building faith.

Anyway, Julia has told to hurry up and get to the point of my business genius, according to her I’m taking too long "blowing smoke up my own ass".

Which I can’t believe my own wife would say!

I have never told you anything that wasn’t absolutely true.

I am amazing, and it takes ti to get that point across.

It has nothing to do with overdoing anything.

I just want to make sure you understand the importance of in my own story.

Anyway, let’s get back into it.

***

The next day Julia and I t up with Darvel again, this ti he had us brought to his study again.

I couldn’t understand why we hadn’t t in his study the previous day also.

I also couldn’t understand why there was a new door, why the wall behind his desk had been repainted, or why his wooden desk now had so sort of tablecloth covering it.

But I had to give it to the guy, when he renovated a place he was very efficient. At that very mont I decided that when I built my bar, I needed to use his contractors.

—Yes, obviously I now know why he had to do all of that renovations, but I didn’t at the ti.—

"You have to tell who did your renovations... they move quickly." I said.

Not expecting a simple statent like this to actually frighten the poor man out of his senses, he kept glancing at Julia again, swallowing hard.

I swear I could hear his chair rattling with his shivers.

"I... I can definitely do that."

Julia and I moved to the sa chairs we sat on the day Darvel had his little... Oopsie.

"Right, so I assu you have my contract ready?" I asked.

Darvel didn’t even need to search around for it, he already had it prepared, and sitting right in front of him.

I could respect that kind of professionalism in a man.

I scanned over all of the terms of the contract with a keen eye, I wasn’t about to get screwed with the small print.

I’m not going to go into all of the details of the contract with you, I’m pretty sure you don’t want to hear all of it.

That, and if I keep this business planning going for one more session Julia might really have sleep in another bed for a week.

And honestly if you guys only knew what it ant to sleep in the sa bed as these lovely ladies, you would understand my hesitation to piss them off too much.

Their love for might grant a certain amount of leeway, but it’s definitely not infinite.

Anyway, I’ll just give you the gist of it.

Basically this was a partnership contract, which specified that any ideas I gave Darvel, would stay my property, and that he was only implenting them.

It also specified the profit share that I would be granted for the profits generated by them.

There was even a confidentiality clause in there stating that any information I shared with him, be that business or otherwise, would be strictly confidential.

Etcetera etcetera.

"It seems good enough to ." I said, grabbing a pen from his desk and signing with a flourish.

"Now we can get back to what I was about to suggest yesterday." I said as I handed one copy of the contract back to him, and stored my copy in my storage space.

Yes, you heard correctly the man even had two copies prepared, you can’t say anything bad about his business savvy.

The mont the iridescent portal of my storage spell appeared, and I stored my copy in there, I could see his eyes widen significantly.

"I told you last ti that you were losing a bunch of money in opportunity costs with your waiting room, do you know why that is?" I asked.

"Because my custors have to wait too long before they can get a table, which ans that indirectly I can’t et the demands." He answered.

Now I had to admit that he wasn’t too far from the point.

"You’re not entirely wrong, but you’re not looking at the bigger picture." I answered.

"Instead of trying to serve your seated custors faster, why not capitalise on the waiting ti? Why not profit from the people who are in the waiting room while they are there?"

I could see the realisation slowly starting to dawn on his face.

"Why not sell drinks to them while they are waiting?"

"I wouldn’t suggest selling them any sort of food while they are there, that would only lead to them not staying around waiting for the table."

"What I do suggest however is that you give them free salty and oily snacks while they are there."

"Not enough for them to get anywhere near a real al, just enough to keep them both thirsty and sober."

That was the first and most important idea I had for his inn, it would significantly cut down the tension on his waitstaff, and improve the quality of the waiting ti for the custors.

Of course I stole this idea from so of the restaurants on Earth, but it’s not like they would mind.

"That... That’s brilliant!" Darvel exclaid.

Of course it was, I ca up with it after all.

So we spent so ti discussing the details of how he should set it up.

I pointed out that he should set up an independent area for serving the drinks.

And that he shouldn’t add any waitstaff to serve the drinks to the people at their seats in the waiting area.

We wanted to make it comfortable for them, not spoil them.

And hiring more hands to serve the drinks in the waiting room would only steal from the profits.

Basically we were going to build a bar in his waiting area.

So the only person who’s going to work there would be the bartender.

And I even volunteered to take the night shift.

I did have to work on my drink serving skills, this bar was only the start of my hospitality ventures after all.