Kapitel 23: Management icon

The next morning, while making breakfast, Aurus was thinking back to the fight the previous day. He had noticed multiple problems from the fight and had been thinking about it all night.

In the middle of the night, he had woken up and had started to browse through the different icons.

It was only at this moment he had noticed that the rank of Zaya was only three ranks higher than himself. At this moment as he was iron rank stage 1, Zaya was silver rank stage 1. In his opinion, maybe Zaya could only be within a rank ahead and he was the one limiting her strength due to his weak cultivation. He had been doubting whether Zaya had indeed killed a few of the adventurers when she had been captured by them or if there was another beast that did it since she honestly was weak compared to the descriptions of the adventurers. As such, in the middle of the night, he went outside and had Zaya fly at max speed. The result of this test was that there was a large gap between before he ranked up and after he did. While it didn't prove anything, he was more or less certain of his conjecture. He would have to verify the next time he broke through to iron rank stage 2 which would be quite soon.

There was also another concern of his. He had difficulties slashing the monster he had previously killed in his rank up. While he could agree that the beast was higher ranked than himself, there was the problem of the sword mastery skill. While this skill did give him some benefits in sword training, he still had difficulties in fighting an iron ranked beast. Considering the skills could be ranked up to SSS just like the ranks of adventurers, he thought maybe reaching the highest rank possible would make him into the strongest using a sword but he was obviously wrong. Before the fight against the iron ranked monster, he had managed to upgrade his skill rank to B. However, he almost couldn't take the beast out.

As such, he figured that SSS rank in sword mastery might be the actual beginning of the skill and the skill would upgrade in the future. After all, being B ranked in sword mastery but having difficulties against iron ranked monsters while they were at the bottom of the food chain would render the skill quite useless for him.

Anyway, after he thought of all this, he figured he would find out with time. As he finished preparing breakfast, he woke up Laia who was still sleeping due to being the weekend and not having school.

Waking up his lazy sister, he went back downstairs and started eating the cereals he had prepared for himself. A few minutes later she joined him and started eating as well.

The previous night, he had gone to the other world and had managed to complete seven tasks. He was currently D rank and was about halfway to the next rank. With the number of tasks he took and the monetary reward he received, he had managed to buy more resources for the shop. Obviously, the higher his rank and strength, the more money he would make and the more resources he would have.

Currently, his shop had on average a total of thirteen different resources that would be able to satisfy most of the needs of the contracted beasts.

At nine, Aurus went downstairs and opened the shop. Seeing a few customers, he let them inside and while they were looking at the resources, he was thinking about his future plans. Firstly, he still wanted to increase his cultivation. Afterwards, he planned on collecting enough crystals to buy a healing card which cost 100,000 crystals to heal his mother and thirdly he wanted to upgrade his adventurers rank to C rank. Finally, he needed to look for a second contracted beast. When one ranked up in their cultivation, they could own a second beast. As such, Aurus would need to look for a good one in either the other world or in this one.

Aurus had visited his mother at the hospital a few times since he came into this world. Although she was sick and in a coma, he still went to see her as at least she was still alive. Considering that his shop made a hefty profit each day, he knew it was only a matter of time before he could wake her up. Thinking about talking with his mother once again made him feel extremely happy and he couldn't wait to

While he was thinking about healing his mother soon, he waited and helped the customers from time to time, Aurus saw Laia walking down the stairs. She was dressed up and Aurus understood that she was going to go outside when he saw her holding a small purse.

"Laia? Where are you going?" Aurus lifted his hand, capturing her attention.

"I'm going to get Alice, Camila, Lola and Lyla. I want them to meet Mist!" She answered while waving her hand and leaving the shop.

Shaking its head, Aurus imagined the Demon Masked Panther being reduced to the name of Mist. Well, he really didn't think he had better naming skill so he figured it would do.

While he had been talking with Laia, some customers had lined up waiting to receive their resources. He immediately got up and started working, stopping thinking about this.

At 11:30 he told all of the customers that the shop would close for an hour in half an hour and told them that if they wanted to buy a resource, they would have to start buying soon.

The few customers that were looking at the resources asked for his opinion for the resources necessary for their contracted beast and they left a little while before 12:00.

Right when he closed the door for lunch, he saw Laia coming home with her four friends following her. As they were talking happily, Aurus waited for a while and let them enter before closing the door. He went upstairs to prepare the food for the five of them once again while Laia went to introduce Mist to her friends.

At dinner, Laia talked about her trip to catch her beast while her friends listened to her and told their own adventure when they had gone to get their own a few months back.

Aurus was happy that Laia's friends weren't jealous girls or the kind of people who would always comment while lowering the other person. In Aurus's opinion, Laia's friends seemed great and thinking about it, he himself didn't have any friends.

Faced with this realization, Aurus smiled depressingly and continued to eat while listening to their conversation. At 12:55, while they were still eating, Aurus went back to the shop and opened the door at 1:00. Seeing the long line of people in front of the shop, he was quite glad and surprised at the same time.

Glad because the shop was popular and its reputation was beginning to spread across the city while surprised because the shop had been open for only about a week. For such a shop and such a remote location, he hadn't expected to receive such great business so fast.

There were around twenty people who were waiting in line in front of the shop. There weren't any fights in the line as they waited in line calmly. He noticed some of the men of the four noble families and the fact that they weren't fighting while in line surprised him. However, he understood that this was a way to be certain not to be banned since it was the greatest and fastest way to strengthen their contracted beast and themselves at the same time.

As he unlocked the door, the customers started to enter one after another. The moment more than twenty customers who weren't planning on extorting him or were just following their leaders came in the shop, he received a new task.

[Task: Get employees for the shop.

Reward: Management icon.

Note: The employees will have to sign an employment contract which means they will be forever bound to the user and never allowed to betray the owner of the system. It is worth mentioning that once they have signed an employment contract the user may select a shop to send them to work at no matter which world it is.]

Upon receiving the task, Aurus' eyes lit up. Honestly, he couldn't deal with all the customers himself. Although he could easily sell the resources, when the customers came to ask which resources were the best for their contracted beast, it consumed a lot of time.

Moreover, from the task, it could be easily seen that the system was hinting in getting slaves to work for him. The employee contract and being forever bound was basically a slave contract but as an employee, he would of course treat them with care. Moreover, the words 'select a shop to send them to work at no matter which world it is' meant a lot more than he thought.

Just those words showed that the system would have him work in different worlds and build more businesses and that he would be able to transfer his people to different worlds.

Having decided to get slaves from the world of Ernia that night, Aurus continued to work hard and finally at five he finished the workday and closed the shop.

Going back upstairs, he saw that the five girls were playing with Mist under the supervision of Zaya. Smiling lightly, he once again invited them to eat and went to prepare the supper.

A little bit after supper, Aurus gave Zaya some resources to eat in order to promote the purity of her element and her various strengths. It wasn't because she couldn't fight at 100 percent that she shouldn't continue to improve her strength since one day, Aurus would get to her level and let her fight at full capacity.

Having decided that he would bring Zaya with him that night in the world of Ernia, he went to the bathroom and prepared for his breakthrough in stages. He was currently iron rank stage 1 and he had enough points to improve himself to iron rank stage 3.

Getting ready, he paid the 2500 points for the second stage and he started to breakthrough.