Commerce Emperor

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The world is up for sale, and Robin is making an offer.

When Robin Waybright became the Merchant Hero, all of Pangeal turned into his marketplace; for the Merchant can buy and sellanything. Youth, skills, memories, hair color, joys and illnesses… in the trade of power, every deal can tip the scale.

And Robinneedspower. His homeland of Archfrost teeters on the brink of collapse, the sinister Demon Ancestors plot in the shadows, and twenty-one other Heroes, each with their own Class, have been chosen to save the world of Pangeal. Not all of them are friendly.

There’s work to do… and profit to make.

Cover byDinovoilaandGharbi Zouhayer.

Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2023
Author: Maxime J. Durand (Void Herald)

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.7/ 5.0
Followers: 4,098
Views: 247,714

Chapters(14 total)

What readers say about Commerce Emperor

“In my opinion the best main character so far by void herald. His previous works tends to lean on introverted main characters, loner types, reserve and such. Some hide it with wacky, jokester persona but the main foundation remain the same. This new male lea…”
Zombie UnicorneRoyal Road5.0 / 5
“Like the new spin and adaptation this story is in general compared to classic litrpg and gamer stories you see on RR all the time, giving special powers to specific heroes that align with chosen mark. Reminds me of a jrpg in a way, especially with the relat…”
MassgamerRoyal Road5.0 / 5

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Community Reviews(10)

Zombie UnicorneRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
In my opinion the best main character so far by void herald.
His previous works tends to lean on introverted main characters, loner types, reserve and such. Some hide it with wacky, jokester persona but the main foundation remain the same.
This new male lead is different. He's an active socialite. Buisness minded, capitalist savant and he also seeks companionship, be it friends or love, not one of those usual MC that can live in the woods a loner forever. He would die without social connections literally.
When you have 80% introverted, self insert plaguing Royalroad, this is a breath of fresh air.
MassgamerRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Like the new spin and adaptation this story is in general compared to classic litrpg and gamer stories you see on RR all the time, giving special powers to specific heroes that align with chosen mark. Reminds me of a jrpg in a way, especially with the relationships between the heroes in general and makes me think of a Persona game.
Robin is fun and his status as the Merchant is very interesting since unlike most of the other classes it doesn't make him a monster in combat, but it does offer a ton of utility abilities and just as powerful if used smartly since it encourages really thinking about what kind of deals you can make.
The logistical guy in any conflict is often a very important and underseen role after all, and that is basically what the Merchant is, the roadie of the Great Heroes.
Look forward to the POVs of other heroes too, especially the 'lesser' heroes whose powers are made to support the Great Heroes but are just as awesome powerwise as them, and I really enjoy their overall characterization since so many different personalities, backgrounds, and more.
World is unique and interesting too, and hope as story goes we get more and more of it since clearly more to it than at first glance, especially its enemies in the demons.
Mr MeRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is pretty early for a review, but so far the story is excellent. The prose is well done, and the characters so far are interesting and well formed.
I've been a big fan of other works by the author, and this has the potential to be another top shelf novel.
UlfurRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Great first impressions, if you love yourself some money grabbing adventure! A story as we are used to from Void Herald, great start, only gonna get better! I love the main character. Witty with a good start but clearly not OP yet. Im looking forward to all the scams he will orchestrate all for a good cause of course.
1Reposed8Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The King is back! The author of the "Vainqueur the Dragon"!!! "Commerce Emperor" is a slow grind fantasy series that based on a tradesman who is the Main character of this story. Robin Waybright is the one who I am referring to. Based on the speed of the story, I do enjoy slow paced plot but hopefully the series should be a change of taste.
MalucardRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Amazing like every other of Void Herald's works, Mc feels like a less deranged version of Ryan Romano. The story is unique, and the power is not wierdly op, nor is their glitching the system involved which kinda turns me off. Like the divine nigh-omnipotent being who designed the system didn't think of accounting for this stupid glitch that every other skyrim player would figure out in 5 minutes. Thankfully void is above such bullcrap. Overall 10/10
AlejandroKingRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I have been following this on Patreon and I'm really starting to like this story.
The story revolves around the Merchant, who is one of the 7(?) Hero classes that are awakened to combat the ancient evil known as Demon Ancestors. Our hero has lived in the underbelly of medieval cities and it is shown through out the story in the way he handles situations and people.
Each Hero class also has Vassal classes giving more depth to the magic system here and making a very viable adventuring team. Where our MC plays support. Though our MC does learn some fighting skills and fights in a few scenes, his is not a martial power so don't expect Goku - like power ups. This is not to say that the pacing is slow though there is some planning before the action. The social aspects of being a Hero are present in the fore here though lacking a teeny bit in the political intrigue as of yet. One thing that I like is that our Merchant is Good. It's refreshing to read an unambiguously Good character after the recent swathe of morally grey fantasies. He generally tries to keep killings to a minimum.
Overall, it is reminiscent of the Unorthodox Farming series by Benjamin Kerei, where the MC is more creative and cunning than his enemies rather than having higher stats.
The characters are believable and run through a cross-section of the world. They all have their own stories which are being shown deliberately. Can't wait for more.
The world building is done primarily through the lens of our MC which makes it more relatable and memorable. Thankfully, no expositions here.
Kent CasandraRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Void has, through his many works of fiction, set a baseline for the level of quality for all his works. Just for the setup alone I can already tell this will greatly exceed that baseline.
I have so far read the first 3 chapters and the prologue to this fic and it shows an incredible amount of potential. One thing to note is this might be a tad bit more serious and less comedic than Void's usual fics. It might even be his most grim. I am unsure of this because I was not able to read Underland or The Perfect Run.
DeadParadesRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
If you've ever read Essence Cyoa's you'll recognize this as the Merchant essence but with a few things changed to make it fairer.
Not a lot of chapters out yet but so far It's been an interesting story, unique world and protagonist with an actual personality, the side characters are also intriging enough, still to early to tell but i think it's going to be a good one.
div0Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
You are currently nailing the swords-and-magic theme you nailed with Vanqueir the dragon, this series is starting to look up since the past few missed me a litttle.
Apocolypse tamer was a little too close to home, and underland just became too abstract and distant to be relatable, but Im really hoping Maxime sticks with regularly updating this one because Commerce Emporor is promising to bring the old magic back.