‘Unique skill, huh? That's the first time I’ve seen something like this. I’ve usually had to possess the skills I have from others, so I wonder what unique skill I’m going to get from a god at the end of this—‘ Alexander thought, then paused and shook his head.He didn’t have time to get distracted by anything that wasn’t the mission in front of him and helping Mary Johnson. He focused on the countdown timer, seeing how long he had to accomplish the mission, and groaned.‘Fifty-nine minutes and forty seconds, huh? Well, I better hurry up and get this over with. Fifty merit points and one unique skill awaits’ he thought, chuckled silently, and then stood up. While in the process of standing, he did really quick math in his mind.After getting a glance at the time on his Patek wristwatch, while crouching, and seeing that the time was a couple of minutes after nine o’clock, he added the one hour he needed to accomplish the mission and got a couple of minutes after ten o’clock. He roun
Mary looked at Alexander with a raised brow that denoted skepticism.“What do you mean by you have everything I need?” She asked.Alexander looked at the elderly woman and said “Just trust me. Go into the bank, wait for me and you’ll see what I’m talking about”“The bank? Am I going to withdraw the money while I’m in there waiting for you?”Alexander shook his head.“No! All you need to do is go inside and most importantly, do nothing. I’ll make everything clear when I meet up with you” Alexander said, sounding slightly annoyed.Though what Alexander said was very cryptic and vague, the elderly woman, who had no choice, decided to trust Alexander because he seemed sure and confident about every word coming out of his mouth.“Okay, Alexander. I’ll do as you say and wait inside like you’ve asked” Mary complied and Alexander took his hands off her shoulders.“Alright then, get going and I’ll come find you in a couple of minutes,” Alexander said and Mary grimaced.“Wait, aren’t you coming
He went into the bank and then met the same security guard from earlier, who had taken Christopher to Steven’s office.Because Steven had returned to his office and dismissed him, the security guard was back to his station by the mechanical door to now be met by Alexander, again.“It’s you, sir. What can I help you—?” The security guard asked but Alexander cut him off.“The restroom, where is it?” Alexander askedThe security guard pointed in the direction, saying “Head that way and take a left. The restroom is at the end of the passage”Alexander looked in that direction and said “Thank you” Alexander followed the direction and soon enough saw Mary waiting for him.Her expression was nervous.“What happened?” Alexander asked from the distance.She showed him her phone and said “Like I told you, the kidnapper called and has given me the location of where to meet with the complete fifty thousand dollars ransom”“Oh,” Alexander said as he got to her.“Yes. This is terrible! What do we
Inside his car, Alexander began to contemplate how to handle the situation while the countdown timer at the corner of his vision made things more intense.“As I theorized, there are at least two people in this operation or maybe even three. One following Mary, one who answered her calls, and the one watching her granddaughter at all times. Now, those last two people could very well be the same person, but what about food and supplies?” Alexander asked himselfIt made sense that there were at least three people in the kidnapping operation because while Mary’s granddaughter was being watched constantly, someone would need to be available to get whatever the kidnappers needed to continue the operation.Things like food, supplies, and whatever else, so it made sense that there were at least three to four people in Alexander’s way of completing his mission.“Three or four people are a lot of people. If they are like all the guys I’ve had to fight so far then it’s going to be challenging, e
Though Alexander knew the name of the stadium where the sporting event was taking place, and he knew that it was close to the Polaris Bank branch he was in, he didn’t know the exact route to get there.For that, he required a map, but he had the next best thing. The GPS that his phone provided.Alexander took out his phone from his pocket and went straight to his Map app. From there he searched for the name of the stadium.He typed in Sports Complex and the map showed him the location.He was just about to activate the GPS feature when he remembered something that caused him to facepalm.He dropped his hand from his face and chuckled.“I forgot about my Guide Possession,” Alexander said, then took a deep breath and sighed.“System, please activate my Guide Possession”, Alexander instructed.[As Mr. Alexander Curry wishes][Activating Guide Possession][Guide Possession Activated][Where would Mr. Alexander Curry like to go?]“To The Sports Complex close to here”, Alexander replied.[D
[Processing complete][Merit points successfully converted into Stat points][Total Merit Points: 10][Total Stat Points: 80][What would Mr. Alexander Curry like to use his Stat Points for?]Alexander contemplated for a moment then asked the system:“System, show me all the skills I have and how many Stat points they are at”He needed to know what value his skills were at to know how well he should distribute the stat points. A wrong distribution of the points could very well be a mistake that costs him his life.[As Mr. Alexander Curry wishes][Advanced Strength: 40pts][Combat Martial Arts: 20pts][Stamina: ???][Reflexes: ???][Hand-eye coordination: ???][Speed: ???][Intellect: ???]The three question marks after each skill meant that it was at the maximum level of whoever Alexander copied the skill from.This meant that, at the moment, Alexander was close to the top physical human condition. The reason it was almost and not exactly at the top was because he got the skills from l
Alexander ignored the man and looked to his right. He saw an old-looking van parked on the pavement.Obviously, only a crazy person or someone who didn’t care about the law would park the van the way it was.Well, by looking at how abandoned the street was, the chances that the police would patrol the area went from very slim to none, so there was no reason for whoever parked the van to fear any consequences.“That must be what they drove to get the money from Mary and bring it here. Well, I’m just guessing but the way the air around the hood is being distorted must mean that it’s still hot and only a freshly used vehicle would—“ Alexander’s brain was firing, deducting everything his eyes saw like he was a veteran detective.Putting fifteen stat points into his intellect was the best decision he had ever made. That and accepting the possession system when it first appeared to him at the hospital, the day before.“Are you deaf?! I said who the fucking hell are you?!” The man yelled aga
Inside the apartment building, in one of the rooms on the top floor sat the Kingpin of the operation on a luxurious couch and was watching a game of football on his massive fifty-five-inch television.On both sides were two skimpy-dressed girls who couldn’t get their bodies off of him.The Kingpin had his right hand inside the shirt of one of the girls, fondling her breasts while the left hand held both the cigar he was smoking and his betting ticket for the current game he was watching.On each corner of the room was a hooligan who served as his protection and they were all properly armed.The Kingpin took his eyes off the television for a moment and looked at something that caused the veins on the sides of his head to throb.“How long are all of you fuckers going to take before you finish counting that, huh?!” He yelled at the gathering of seven scared kids between his couch and the television.They all sat on the floor, counting heaps of cash in their middle while supervising them
Alexander went back to WhatzApp where he continued chatting with Winifred until she said that she had to go offline because her teacher just walked into the class and she would talk to him later. The chat ended which was good because Alexander was starting to get tired as he wasn’t someone who liked chatting all that much. After that, Alexander looked at his phone, from front to back, and groaned. “Why haven’t I upgraded this yet?” He asked himself as he looked at the phone with disgust. How could he be using such an old model when he had hundreds of millions of dollars in his account? It was unbecoming and disgraceful. “Alright, I guess I know what to do today,” Alexander said then he dropped the phone on the bed and went to take a shower. After a couple of minutes, he came out of the bathroom fully dried, put on what he would wear for his outing then he took the phone from the bed and went out of the house. He got into his car and got ready to drive off, but first, he need
If he wasn’t able to read at an incredible pace thanks to his heightened intellect, he wouldn’t have been able to finish reading the second message because she deleted it less than a second after he received it.She sent the message again some seconds later and the second sentence was gone.[If you are then it’s kind of late, don’t you think?]Alexander chuckled because the deleted message showed that the girl had eavesdropped on his conversation with her father because she shouldn’t have known that he was done with high school and was waiting to go to college.She knew this which was why she deleted it, hoping that he didn’t see the message. Unfortunately for her, he did, and she couldn’t ask if he did because it would be awkward, so she just hoped and wanted to move on.He replied [Yeah, I know] pretending like he didn’t see the message she deleted.He also messaged that he wanted to save her number so she should give him a minute. [Okay but hurry up so we can continue talking][No
After eating so much food and satisfying his hunger, Alexander slept like a log and because he had nothing to do the following day, the System didn’t bother to wake him up. Within the time that he slept, his body changed a little, adapting to the ten stat points he was awarded after accomplishing his last mission, and a good portion of the food he ate was used for that which was why he wasn’t bloated after gobbling up all those many dishes.The next morning came and Alexander continued to sleep, not hearing when his alarm rang until it stopped.A couple of minutes passed and the alarm rang again but still, he wasn’t able to hear it until it stopped.Between the second time the alarm rang and the next time it would ring again— after snoozing— Alexander received a notification on his phone.It was a message, two actually, but Alexander still wasn’t able to hear them because of how deep in sleep he was until, finally, the next alarm that rang woke him up.{“Good morning, Mister Alexande
Afterward, Alexander, Mr. Terrence, and Mrs. Terrence sat in the living room and talked business while Winifred was told to go to her room. The girl pretended to do that, but she sat by the stairs and listened to the entire meeting. Her reason for doing that was because she wanted to know when the meeting would be over. She knew that Alexander would leave immediately after the meeting was done and she wanted to see him before he did. A couple of minutes later and the meeting came to an end. “Since we’re done discussing everything we have to for today, I guess it’s about time I take my leave,” Alexander said as he stood up from the couch. “Of course. Please allow us to escort you to your car” Mr. Terrence said as he and his wife stood up as well.“Thank you” Alexander smiled.“Wait, Winifred hasn’t said goodbye to him yet,” Mrs. Terrence said.“What?” Mr. Terrence grimaced. “It was her idea to invite Alexander over for dinner which resulted in this wonderful meeting taking place,
After the Possession System had transferred all of Mr. Ferguson’s properties and net worth to him, it had also replaced his name and face in all proof of ownership to Alexander’s and that includes blog articles and documentation of the matter.The Possession System had also covered a veil on everyone’s minds that made them forget that Mr. Ferguson used to be the rightful owner of everything that used to be his and replaced it with Alexander if they ever tried to look up the information.The veil also made inconsistencies in the altered proof of ownership redundant, meaning that anyone who checked the information wouldn’t think twice after seeing that the casino which had been active for longer than Alexander had been alive was somehow founded by him and one other person.In essence, whenever they saw or read anything that used to have Mr. Ferguson’s name and face as the owner of things, they would see Alexander’s which is exactly what happened when Mr. Terrence quickly reached for his
“It’s fine, honey. Alexander is our guest so I don’t see why we can’t break certain eating habits to accommodate him” Mr. Terrence said and his wife groaned. Again, she suspected her husband and his intention for permitting the invite she gave Alexander to come eat with them.Still, she kept quiet and just let things play out.“Well, I’d like to increase the number the estates I’ve built from the cities we’re occupying to other cities in other states as well, creating like a housing franchise. While I’m doing that, I’ve been thinking of entering into other business ventures that’ll be more profitable in the long run” Mr. Terence said and Alexander groaned. “Other business ventures, huh? Which ones do you have in mind?” Alexander asked. Mr. Terrence cleared his throat because he didn’t know how Alexander was going to take what he was about to say.“Well, I was thinking of getting into ventures like the casino business but things like that are quite challenging. You’d need someone wh
“Thank you, Missus Terrence, and don’t mind if I do,” Alexander said then asked Winifred to help him with one of the bowls so he could dish more food for himself. As she gave Alexander the bowl and he started dishing for himself, Mr. Terrence asked “So, Alexander, as I was saying before I was painfully interrupted…”Mrs. Terrence rolled her eyes again while having a smile on her face.“What’s your basketball experience?” Mr. Terrence asked as Alexander gave the bowl back to Winifred to keep while asking her to give him another bowl. “I’ve never played the game before. As a matter of fact, I’ve never been on the court or held the ball before” Alexander replied and Mr. Terrence’s eyes widened.“What about high school? Didn’t your high school have basketball as one of the sports the students played? Surely you got curious about shooting at the hoop at least once or twice” Mr. Terrence said.“Yes, we did have a basketball court as well as other games but I never really got to play” Ale
Both ladies were looking very beautiful. Though Winifred was young and still growing into her looks, she was very beautiful and had an innocent look to her which would make any man’s heart melt. As for Mrs. Terrence, she was the evidence of what the young girl had to look forward to when she was her age. Her face and body were excellently crafted by her creator. “What are you guys talking about?” Mrs. Terrence asked and both Alexander and her husband looked at her and Winifred. “I was just getting to know Alexander a little better is all. Isn’t that right, Alexander?” Mr. Terrence asked and they all looked at Alexander. “That’s right. Mr. Terrence and I were just talking about how I grew up and all. Nothing too serious” Mrs. Terrence looked at her husband suspiciously for a moment. Like Alexander, she too had a feeling that there was a motive behind why he agreed to the dinner invitation but she didn’t think as far as Alexander did to realize the truth so she let it go. “Alrig
“I’m very observant, remember? I could smell your intentions behind asking me all those questions from a mile away” Alexander said and Mr. Terrence groaned as he furrowed his eyebrows.“My intentions?” The man of the house asked.“That’s right. I’m not a father, but if I were, especially a father to a girl child, I wouldn’t just allow a stranger of my stature and build to come into my house just because my daughter wanted to invite them. Knowing how good of a businessman you must be to have what you do, you wouldn’t make such a reckless decision which leaves me to think that the reason why you allowed my invitation to pass is because you wanted to know what type of person you new tenant is, so this is basically a business move disguised as a caring father act” Alexander said and Mr. Terrence kept quiet to listen to the rest of what the young multimillionaire was going to say. “Because it isn’t normal for a person my age to have the amount of money to rent a place here or drive the ki