Early January - April 1921

The case came to an anticlimactic end with the creature being slayed, though sadly not before it took three lives. The fact that Lucia single handedly solved the case annoyed the police station due their desire to prove themselves, though they could not be annoyed at Lucia.

Though as a reward and after two hours of negotiating, Lucia did get to keep the corpse, which Lucia then promptly had stuffed by a taxidermy, A process filled with awkward staring, and questioning looks from all involved except Lucia, who utterly failed to realize just how strange it looked. Though she thankful got it chalked up to her being an eccentric millionaire.

Either way, the cases came to end sooner than Lucia had thought it would, which left open a lot of time to complete several other tasks. Mainly increasing the manpower to the point that Lucia doesn’t have to rely on the police to handle any hostile groups they may come across. So using a variety of sources from profits of the investing company, Lucia's own money and profits from Lucia's gun company.

Which was something of note, as the trials in early March were a huge success, as even though there will most likely be no major armies that will mass adopt either the rifle or the pistol. Several armies have ordered them, most surprising being several major orders from several South American countries and a large order from the Chinese government. With several small orders from the U.S. military and several European armies. Especially for the rifle For a combined total of around. The police however ate up the pistol and dozens of police departments made orders for pistols. With a total of around 50 thousand rifles and 70 thousand pistols being ordered. Within a month of the demonstration. Providing a large amount of income to start new designs and fund the hiring and purchase of the facilities needed.

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Which comes to Lucia buying another property that is across the street that was temporarily transformed into a new expansion of the base with plans for labs to be installed in them for research. Again another underground tunnel was built to connect the two buildings, to hide the traffic between the two. Which while small for now, will increase over time. As the current hiring spree has recruited more than 50 new employees in the first major expansion of the company, Along with a shift in how Lucia envisioned the company. As Lucia realized that the way that the company had been before, a small private detective agency, with only a few employees. Would be reliant on police assistance. Lucia would rather avoid it, so she has decided that her organization should fill the manpower on its own. So that it can be self-sufficient and not as reliant on the police.

Though for future expansions, it has also been deemed that there should be a base that is outside of the city limits so that there can be an actual base that doesn’t have to be hidden. Though that is a long way from happening. As the 3 office buildings and their expanded basements are enough for the time being. Though the troops have struggled to find areas to train. So the land where Lucia plans to create her base was purchased. With several small huts being built to house the troops and training supplies. The land that Lucia purchased is around a thousand acres of land to the west of New Bristel, in a surprisingly flat but forested area. Ensuring that the area is quiet and unlikely to be disturbed. The land was bought from the U.S government which came with a cryptic statement saying that they would like to arrange a meeting with her in mid June, and not much more, giving Lucia something to look forward for.

Though until that mysterious meeting, it is business as usual.