I Have Seven Dragon Souls In a cultivation world

Originally Swordmaster Rho that stuck around Klent had also believed Dante to be the reincarnation of a past  expert so it wasn't too shocking for karther to believe the same thing.

Dante didn't know if there was something particularly wrong with the people of this world but they were always quick to conclude that he was the reincarnation of supreme expert.

But looking at things from another perspective it wasn't like this conclusion was anything negative for him. In fact, this could be seen as a rather good thing.

The idea that Dante was some sort of supreme expert would be able to inspire a hush sense of loyalty within his subordinates so Dante didn't see a problem in keeping things that way at least for now.

Leaving the stunned Karther behind, Dante walked towards his throne and sat back down.

"Karther now that I've decided to invest into your talent, do you know what is the next step?"

Hearing this Karther eyes began to shine.

"My lord, if it was me, I would start capitalising on rumours that have already been spread to further reinforce an image we've already created."

"Oh?" Replied Dante with interest

"And how would you do this?" Asked Dante

"The best idea I could come up with would be to invest more heavily into the story tellers we have going around in bars and brothels." Said Karther

As Dante heard this he just shook his head

"Karther whilst your ideas not nessecarily a bad, it's not ideal." Said Dante.

If we plan on manipulating the information and rumours flowing around the capital long term, it wouldn't be plausible to continue hiring  external forces to achieve i this  goal ."

"If total and untraceable manipulation of information is what we are after then we will have to establish our own force"

"Own force?" Asked Karther suspiciously

"Establishing our own force is a tremendous task. Ignoring the price it would take to open up our own bars and brothels in processs, we'd still have to fight a secret bloody war with the information guilds that have already taken route here."

Despite Hearing Karthers words, Dante did not panic and instead just smiled

"Karther, although one way of controlling information would be to own and strictly regulate the information told in bars, that would be far from the only way." Said Dante

"You should know this by now but bars themselves aren't the actual ones that spread these stories, it would often be wondering story telllers that settle there like bards or minstrels. So if we know this then the way to control the information should already be obvious and that is to set up a way to control these people." Explained Dante

"My lord and how would we go about achieving this." Asked Karther, now growing more and more exited with each one of Dante's words

"Karther my idea to control them would be  to open up something similar to a bards guild." Said Dante

As soon as Karther heard this a look of hesitation appeared on his face

"My lord while this may be a good idea, something like a bards guild is a little…."

As Karther spoke, Dante didn't ignore him and acknowledge his words.

"I understand where you are coming from something like a bards guild would be to obvious and high profile. If such a thing truly did exist then it wouldn't be too hard to understand and track wher our information wa s coming from. That's why I'm planning on doing something not so obvious." Said Dante

"I'm plannning to open up an academy!"

"An academy?" Asked Karther, now puzzled

"Yes and academy." Said Dante

Bards and miss treks often need proper training in music instruments and all other forms of art like singing and dancing.

For the common people such teaching oils be hard to find.

From my memnory it would only be the children  of nobles that would bother to revive such an education and if they weren't nobles then they would often be people sold into brothels learning theses techniques only to increase their values of merchandise."

"So think about it Karther, what would happen if we opined an academy that taught such techniques at a cheap and affordable price to the common people?" Asked Dante

"Well then the colmkinersbinterrested in such a field would flock there within hours!" Replied Karther

"So Karther now let's think about it like this, although not all of them will be attending to become bards and minstrels a good portion of the graduates will be. So if we can keep in contact with the graduates of the academy by providing a few job opportunities and welfare services it wouldn't be too difficult to regulate and control what types of stories they spread and what types of songs they sing.  In this way within just a few years, no. In just a few months we'd have a loyal and yet completely untraceable way of manipulating information within the capital. If we were to get truly ambitious with this then the whole of the Vaenam kingdom will not be able to escape our grasp!"

"My lord while the idea you propelled is excellent, my only problem with this would be the price. The academy, especially during the founding few months will definitely be working at an astronomical losss."

As Dante heard this a wide smirk appeared on his face.

"Karther have you forgotten who I am? I am the royal Prince consort of of the mighty Vaenam kingdom."

My fiancé is princess levina. What type of fiancé are you if you can't help your partner In times of need? Don't worry about the price of anything, the princess will be paying for it in full."

Looking at the smug smile on the face of his lord, even Karther couldn't help but feel a sense of shame on behalf of his master. He was Shamelessly leaching money of his in-laws before they were even married and he wasn't even feeling the slightest sense of remorse in the process