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The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4685

Chairwoman Calsie Doornbos had come a long way from her days in Cloudy Curtain.

As someone who regularly held talks with second-class CEOs, directors and other important officials, it was difficult to believe she used to be a third-class law student when she first got hired by Ves Larkinson.

It had not been easy to keep up with the meteoric growth of the clan. As the Larkinsons became more connected with the higher layers of human society, the difficulty and complexity of all of the work that needed to be done constantly grew as well.

Calsie needed to work harder and spend all of her free time on studying many different subjects in order to barely keep pace with the growth of the clan.

Even then, as the clan began to hire highly qualified second-class professionals and university graduates, she found herself unable to keep up with the rising standards.

Not even her augmentations could help her close the enormous gap in knowledge and skills between herself and those who were born as second-raters!

If not for the fact that the Larkinson Clan expressly rewarded the early employees who worked for Ves in his early career and proven their loyalty many times over, Calsie doubted that she would have been able to serve as the chairwoman of the increasingly more influential Open Consortium of Krakatoa.

When she started to lead this new business cooperative that operated on an entirely new membership model, she experienced a lot of hardships and difficulties in her work.

Fortunately, she already learned how to delegate and managed to pass on a lot of important responsibilities to her much more capable and specialized subordinates.

It was only after she had settled into her position for several years that she started to feel at home as the head of the Open Consortium.

She painstakingly raised her qualifications as a business leader and gradually accrued enough experience to be able to talk competently with the members of the Open Consortium.

Though she would not claim to have done the best possible job at leading the business and trade consortium, Calsie felt confident she could justify her continued tenure at 'her' organization!

That was until the expeditionary fleet finally returned from its latest adventure. From the moment she received a summons of the clan patriarch himself, her blood froze for a moment.

Would Ves approve of her stewardship of one of the daughter organizations of the Larkinson Clan?

Would he be happy with how many members the Open Consortium managed to attract?

Would he have any objections to the changes and expansions to the original rules of the trade organizations?

All of these questions and more swirled in her mind as her shuttle brought her out of the Open Consortium's headquarters in the Financial District and took her to the Cat Nest in Industrial District 2.

Not much time had passed since Calsie last met with the fellow Cloudy Curtainer in person.

However, much had changed due to a combination of internal and external developments. It shouldn't surprise her that much that Ves would want to receive a report so quickly after his return to the port system.

When her shuttle finally touched down on the expansive and busy landing zone, she stepped out and met another old friend.

"Gavin!"

"Hello again, Calsie."

The two long-time friends hugged each other for a moment before they began to chat in a familiar manner.

"How was the frontier?"

"Terrifying as always." Gavin gulped. "I will never get used to this sort of life, but… I don't want to stay away from Ves either. Our latest operations have been particularly fruitful for us. It would be too much to mention all of the direct benefits that we have obtained in the Boryan System and the Ramage Repulsor System, but our expeditionary fleet is about to undergo a massive string of upgrades as a result." freёwebnovel.com

"That sounds nice. It almost makes me wish I was serving in the fleet instead of remaining stuck here in this safe and increasingly crowded city."

"Don't. Davute is heaven compared to the hell that is out there. There is nothing like getting targeted by alien warships to make you appreciate the safety of a heavily developed and heavily defended star system."

She supposed he was right. Calsie couldn't be any braver than her friend Gavin, so she would definitely not fare well under the same circumstances.

As they slowly made their way to the Blue Cat Estates on foot, Calsie quickly brought up a more relevant topic.

"Do you know why Ves wants to meet with me on short notice?" She asked.

"To be honest, I am not entirely certain." Gavin answered. "Although our business ventures remain important to our clan, I have noticed that Ves is paying increasingly less attention to them. Entire days and weeks go by where he has nothing else on his mind aside from raising his children, conducting secretive experiments and working on his design projects."

"That sounds like what any good father and a mech designer would do. Does that mean your workload has dropped."

"On the contrary. I need to handle a lot more work behind the scenes." The personal assistant sighed. "Ves had given me the authority to make small decisions on his behalf. I have spent enough time with him to know how he thinks and become familiar with his attitudes towards different topics. He trusts me to handle the issues that are too small for him to bother."

"What about larger decisions?"

"That is what the chief ministers are for. I only have to bring up the truly crucial issues to Ves, which doesn't happen that often these days. Our clan can handle most problems by itself and our patriarch is becoming less and less interested in managing anything that does not directly impact his own work."

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