Gawain sat in the study of the feudal lord's mansion, looking at the latest reports from the Kant territory and the Leslie territory.
More than half of the report was about the establishment of trade routes. Patrick, whom he valued highly, had already shown his worth. Under the efforts of this "merchant scholar," the southern merchants who originally had trading exchanges with the Kant territory had been successively linked together. In this process, a large number of traveling merchants were brought under Patrick's command—not much money was spent on this, but instead, payment was made with alchemical potions in stock. In a short time, Patrick succeeded in making a significant number of merchants voluntarily become distributors of the "Cecil Potion," and they took the potions on the road with them.
