Chapter 29: new skill called contract
The lords that are present with Lord Trelawney were all local lords in the surrounding areas. It is very easy for Vikram to steal their money if he wanted to.
Vikram has already planning to do that.
During the current era the lords here are fully loaded with money.
Their money power is strong enough to get the interest of the queen of England.
Later this land was able to get a high number of seats in the council which is around 44 seats by records.
That is how loaded these people are.
While making the medicine Vikram asked the butler to bring some parchment and pen to write some contracts.
The butler has already seen this before when he asked Lord Trelawney and knows what Vikram is doing.
He brought in the materials while Vikram is preparing medicine and also working on writing the contract.
He is actually multitasking doing the two things at the same time making the people in the kitchen astounded.
The butler wanted to help but Vikram rejected saying that everything should be written by him to make this contract valid later when he submit it to the society.
Butler stood silently looking as Vikram worked.
After that the cups were filled with the medicine and Vikram told butler to wait for 5 minutes before bringing them into the guest hall where the lords are.
Vikram first made his move coming to the guest hall and informed them that the medicine is ready and it has to cool down a little before taking.
So they have to wait for 5 more minutes.
All of them nodded at his request.
Then Vikram moved on to his original plan taking out the contracts and handed them to the lords around.
Lord Trelawney already seen the contract and since Vikram is going to become his partner he supported Vikram explaining the details.
Vikram has even showed the two contracts one is signed by Lord Trelawney and the other is a fake that he prepared.
The lords around were astounded to find that there is such a society in this world.
With proofs shown they all decided to sign the contracts and even put their seal on the contract.
There is one thing missing which is the amount of chaos points that they are going to award.
Vikram left that blank so that those lords would fill them on their own.
Vikram wanted this so that he might get more profits if the contracts actually worked.
The people here looked at the example of the contract signed by Lord Trelawney and started to write some big numbers.
But the number is nearly same as the number written on Lord Trelawney's contract.
Vikram even told them that there will be an evaluation later when he submitted these contracts to the society.
So they don't have to be conflicted over the numbers being high and low.
When those people signed those contracts something unexpected happened as Vikram receive a system prompt.
The prompt appeared when the tenth person signed the contract.
"Congratulations for player Vikram receive a new skill called contract."
Skill name: Contract
Skill Level: tier 0 (0/500)
Description: player can make a contract with both the fantasy world characters and real life players.
As long as the contract is established and signed by all the parties the terms of the contract will become absolute under the will of the world and will of fate.
The level of contract will be decided by the level of the skill, qualification of the player and some special factors.
The contract needed to be made with higher level materials for higher level terms for high level people.
Hint: The current world is the beginners testing world so some of the restrictions on the contract skill were temporarily removed.
When Vikram went through the details he was a little surprised and he was filled with happiness.
But there are other things that he should be careful about like the materials used to make paper and ink for the contract.
May be the writing of details should also be improved...
These are his thoughts when he got the skill.
At the same time he was brought back to the reality by butler that brought the medicine poured in cups and are placed on a tray like serving tea.
Vikram helped butler while collecting the contracts.
He did not calculate the amount on the contracts.
He simply rolled them and tied it with a rope.
When the lords drank the cup of medicine they did not feel any change but Lord Trelawney explained before Vikram.
The lords immediately decided to set off as they have to reach their homes before the effects of the medicine set off.
They don't want to waste any time with such good medicine acting on their poles.
Well their home doesn't mean to their wives instead they might have mistresses or they might go to some other places to vent out their lust.
Well Vikram did not care about that.
After he is done with the banquette of Lord Trelawney Vikram rushed back to Katherine's house and cooked food for her.
He acted very normally in front of servants and butler John.
When the servants left and butler John retired to sleep Vikram used his chance to spray some sleeping gas on a cloth and placed it near butler John's face making him fall asleep into deep sleep.
Then he came to Katherine and showed her his gains.
After that he has told her that he is going to go out tonight to collect some of the money from the contracted lords.
Since those lords are going to be busy playing with other woman because of the special medicine it is the best time to get the things.
In these night robberies Lord Trelawney was excluded for the time being.
The reason is simply.
Vikram don't want to take the funds of Lord Trelawney so as to not to alert him and delay the treasure hunt for long.
Chapter 30: recruited as one of the cook for officials
Vikram don't want to take the funds of Lord Trelawney so as to not to alert him and delay the treasure hunt for long.
After informing Katherine, Vikram put on his special dress and moved out of the house.
He got some horses to move around quickly.
He made his way to the houses of those lords to steal their stored treasures and money.
Since there is a contract the stolen goods might not lose their value.
Vikram was quick in stealing things from the metal safes of the old version.
He is good at lock picking and these old things are too easy for him.
Also, he only stole from the safe boxes instead of other things like paintings and art.
He doesn't want to attract immediate attention related to theft or other things.
Those lords usually open their safes once a month to put in their earnings or take out some money for special purposes.
Since it is like that Vikram can run wild.
There are gold and silver coins in those safe boxes that are easy to loot.
In a few nights Vikram has a small mountain of gold, silver and bronze in his storage space.
He not only stole the money in the safe boxes he also stole the refined ingots of copper and other metals from the copper mines from those lord's warehouses.
The only place that was still intact is the Lord Trelawney's safe and store house.
Vikram did not have a problem with that as he found from the butler of Lord Trelawney's mansion, that Lord Trelawney has bought a ship few days ago.
The banquette is related to his purchase and also to not to cause any big movements from other lords from discovering something related to treasure map.
Since he diverted his attention towards Vikram's special medicine, he can simply make an excuse that they are going to get some special ingredients out of this country through the sea route.
The protagonist and his mother should have already arrived doctor Livesey's place.
With their contact with Lord Trelawney related to captain flint's treasure map the story is going to start moving to the next phase.
This is also the time when Vikram is likely to meet other players that are doing their own thing in the past few days.
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In the morning Vikram is sleepy because of staying awake all night long last night.
Well he can take it without any problem.
Also in the afternoon he can take a nap completing all of their chores.
There is uproar outside because of the thefts last night.
But the theft related to the safe boxes is not discovered.
Instead the loss of metal ingots in the warehouses took all the attention.
The reason for this is because few days later these metal ingots will be sent for business through various trade means.
Vikram did not take the metal ingots of Lord Trelawney now doesn't mean that he will leave them.
He is going to steal them too before they set off along with the metal safe.
The time Vikram prepared the dishes as usual at Katherine's house and then moved to Lord Trelawney mansion to cook.
Lord Trelawney was busy with preparing the boat and some other things related to mass robbery that happened last night.
But when he is having lunch he called Vikram.
"Vicky, I am planning on going on a voyage in a few days.
It is a little long one which takes a round trip of around 5 months."
Vikram expected this and immediately accepted the words of Lord Trelawney to become the ship's cook for Lord Trelawney and some officials like captain of the ship and doctor.
As for the rest of the crew there is another cook silver.
In the 15 days time limit, 12 days are already over and they will start their journey in 3 days.
Vikram immediately went back to pack his things and made some arrangements including the safety of Katherine in the next three days.
Lord Trelawney also introduced Vikram to other storyline characters including Jim, his mother, captain of the ship and the ship's doctor.
Lord Trelawney also explained about the treasure map related to the treasure of the captain flint.
Vikram immediately said that he don't want any share of that.
But Vikram asked for something different.
That is after the group found the treasure of captain flint; he wanted to have that treasure map.
The group looked at him strangely.
Vikram immediately explained.
This is a historical event and he wanted to tell his future generations that he has went on a journey to hunt the treasure of captain flint.
This map will be the proof of that and he wanted to hold on to it.
When he explained it like that the atmospheres become softened and all the people happy to give that map to Vikram after they got the treasure.
The reason why Vikram asked for the treasure map is because his insight skill activated subconsciously and gave a hint to him.
This treasure map is very important artifact.
In the past few days from the time Vikram found the effects of insight he used it to check things out frequently.
Over the days he found that it improved and gained some skill experience because of the usage.
As for the skill called will, will is also improving whenever he did something beyond his limits or with high concentration or strong feeling towards completion or winning
Even though most of the details related to the skill were fogged for some reason, the skill is still gaining experience through many things.
The uses of the skill in passive state are still unknown to him.
Vikram did not think about them for the time being as he has many things to take care of here.
He has decided to think of these things after going out of this fantasy world.
Also there will be free time for him to think when he is on the ship for at least 2 months.