Gabe had no idea how much time had passed, but he couldn’t open his eyes. He began to hear voices around him.Vyse and Systa were talking about many things, mostly about other systems. In the end, their conversation shifted to talking about Gabe.[So, do you want to serve him or not?] Systa asked Vyse.{Even an animal knows when to back away in a fight.] Vyse said. {But this guy doesn’t. I don’t know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing.}[You should know that there are times when humans don’t back away from a fight even after knowing that they’ll lose.] Systa explained. {Even animals do that sometimes.]{Maybe, but I don’t like to follow this guy. I think I can do better when I’m alone.}[So you feel like you won’t be used well when you’re with me, huh…] Systa sighed. [Fine. I’ll let you go if you help him train.]{No problem, though I think he might be afraid of me.}[Haha, you’re underestimating him too much.] Systa angrily laughed. [He may not have anywhere near as much battle expe
Draco and Joshua didn’t know what to do.Joshua was shivering outside the store as he was afraid of how his parents would react if they were to know that the car was stolen. Moreover, Joshua was only eight years old, and he came outside without his parents knowing. It suddenly dawned upon him that he didn’t have a single good thing to tell his parents.“3000 dollars…” Draco, on the other hand, was just in disbelief. “I could have used that as pocket money for a year at least.”“You are worried about 3000 dollars when my car itself was stolen?” Joshua growled at him.“We lost the gaming gear, too. What should we do?” Draco asked. “Can you tell your parents what happened?”“No way.” Joshua didn’t know what to do. He couldn’t even think straight at the moment. He was still shivering enough that it looked like he might faint any second. “I’m foolish. We should have come in the morning. It’s Saturday tomorrow. If we had waited another day, we would have come here on Sunday.” He started cry
Bjorn and Nicole spent almost two hours at the restaurant. As they were coming out, Bjorn’s son, Sekel Hemsey, noticed them from his car, which was actually Gabe’s dark olive Lamborghini.He didn’t like what he saw.“You didn’t marry anybody until now. You didn’t even date anybody, so what the hell are you doing now? What changed so suddenly… Dad?”Sekel didn’t want his father to date much less marry someone because he didn’t want his dad’s wealth to go to waste. To this day, he always thought that his dad’s wealth fully belonged to him. If some random woman were to marry Bjorn and give birth to a child, then Sekel would lose a lot of money.“I have to find out about that gold digger as soon as possible.” He followed their car. “To think he’s taking her in his car. Is he heading to some hotel?” Sekel grew more and more frustrated. Moreover, it proved to be a long chase.After traveling for an hour, Bjorn’s car stopped. Nicole stepped out and said, “This is my house.”Bjorn just smiled
The next morning.Gabe was looking at the silver ring in his palm. “How will you travel on your own?”{Many systems can’t do that, but I can.} Vyse proudly said.“Yeah. But how?” Gabe couldn’t help but ask.{You’re not that smart, are you?}A vein popped on Gabe’s forehead. “If you don’t want to answer, then just get lost!” he threw the ring into the distance. He had no issue doing that after taking so many hits from Vyse over the night.The ring fell in the pond and reached the bottom, where a crocodile had its mouth open. The ring fell in its mouth.[He can lower his weight to that of a feather and can travel through the wind.] Systa told Gabe.“Ah, I see. Now I get it,” Gabe somewhat calmed down. “Ahem, anyway, now you have some of those powers, right?”[Yes. You can use them, too, but you need to practice first, or you’ll end up killing people.]“Yeah,” Gabe completely understood her statement. If he were to punch someone while his weight was equivalent to ten thousand kilos, then
Early in the morning, Gabe was driving back home in his rental car.“I feel like I have gotten significantly stronger, you know,” Gabe talked with Systa. “Not strength-wise, but definitely mind-wise. The practice matches with Vyse helped me greatly.”[You fought with him 1210 times and won 500 times.] Systa said. [So, you did a decent job.]“If we kept fighting, I’d have had more wins under my belt,” Gabe confidently said.[That’s possible because your winning percentage improved as time passed.] Systa opined. [But don’t get that into your head. Vyse might just have gone easy on you and let you win so that you’d get bored and let him leave early.]“Huh!” Gabe snorted in anger. “You really don’t like to give me credit, do you? Why is it so hard for you to genuinely praise me for once?”[I will praise you when I feel like it, not because you ask me a million times.] Systa responded.At a junction up ahead, a superbike came speeding from another street. Thanks to Gabe’s enhanced senses,
At around nine in the morning, Gabe went into his home, wondering why Nicole was still at home and didn’t go to work.To his surprise, he heard a feminine voice from the kitchen which didn’t belong to Nicole or Mia. He quickly looked inside, and it was Sheila, the divorced neighbor, who was learning how to cook a certain dish using Nicole’s expertise.“You’re not teaching her for free, are you, Mom?” Gabe asked.Sheila was surprised by his words. “Huh, you really are as stingy as ever.”“You didn’t give me the money for free in the past, so you’re not qualified to call others stingy,” Gabe reminded her, making her twist her mouth.“Fine. I’ll give you some money afterward, Aunt Nicole,” Sheila told her.“Oh, I can’t take money from a guest,” Nicole quickly rejected. “You can always come to me for any recipe. As long as I’m allowed to tell you about a certain recipe, I’ll freely share my knowledge with you.”“Then I’ll become your disciple, Aunt Nicole!” Sheila gave her a mild hug.Gab
Sheila guided Gabe to her company.Along the way, Gabe kept talking about Nicole, including her past as well as her present. “I hope she finds a man soon. I want her to have her own child because she sacrificed so much for me.”“I hope your wish will come true,” Sheila didn’t speak much for whatever reason.Eventually, they reached the destination. The tech company was an eleven-floor building, but what caught Gabe’s eyes was the 29-floored building next to it, which didn’t have a single window on it.Gabe had never seen a building without windows, definitely not one of this size.“What’s that building for?” Gabe asked her because he didn’t see any symbols or boards on it.“Ah, that’s owned by the federal government,” Sheila said. “Did you ask because it doesn’t have windows?”“Mm.”“I thought it’s strange at first, too, but when I thought about it, I understood that federal agents need to maintain utmost secrecy, so they removed the option and luxury of having windows,” Sheila opined
The Carter company was owned by Nate Carter, a 30-year-old guy with nothing but a good record and reputation in the professional circles.The company grew in its fame quickly in recent years because of the tough projects it took on. Nate himself was one of the top programmers of the company, and Sheila also recently got promoted to being an executive.However, with fame also came troubles of all kinds. While getting targeted by hackers was not first for the company, a hacking of this scale was not something Nate or anybody even imagined in the past.All the past project details that the company had kept as backup as part of the protocol, and also the personal details of the employees, everything was stolen overnight. On top of that, a new project was given to the company. It was to do nothing until further notice.Nate didn’t stay put. He tried everything he could by himself, but the hacker proved too good for him. So, he hired Aaron, the best ethical hacker in the country, and brough