When Adam received the talent achievement task regarding the Ultimate Sharpshooter talent, he wasn’t that surprised since after he surfed the dark web, he was already exposed to various criminals and became well aware of their notoriety.
But seeing the condition for the talent achievement task regarding Ultimate Bodyguard talent, Adam’s heart skipped a beat, and ripples of emotions perforate through his heart.
“Wait, the school belle will be assassinated by Serpent Hand? Just what kind of identity does the school belle have to offend someone to the point of hiring Serpent Hand just to assassinate her?”
Adam exclaimed in surprise. He was staying all alone in his room in the morning so his action didn’t cause anyone to react towards him.
Not to mention, yesterday was Friday and today was Saturday. So Adam was having a normal weekend surfing the dark web.
“Is this a planned assassination? Even the time that Serpent Hand accepted this commission was on midnight Saturday. Not to mention, the payment for this commission is around a hundred million dollars.”
Adam was astonished about that since he knew that an assassination commission that cost around a hundred million dollars was only applicable to the sons and daughters of presidents, prime ministers, multi-millionaires, and even billionaires.
The payment for the assassination commission reflected how difficult the task was. And with the rules of the dark web regarding commissions, half was already paid in advance to Serpent Hand when Serpent Hand accepted the commission.
“Serpent Hand might not be the strongest assassin organization, but it is one of the top 10 in the entire world. At least, the probability of their success is within the range of 90%.”
“Even I am not confident that I can go up against them unless I hire the rest of the top 10 assassin organizations to assassinate the entire members of Serpent Hand. At least, I have enough cryptocurrencies to pull that off.”
While Adam was wary of the Serpent Hand’s power, he also didn’t forget to praise himself for being so wealthy.
If the Serpent Hand targeted him, can’t he just hire the rest of the assassin organizations to assassinate Serpent Hand?
Perhaps, only someone as rich and smart as Adam could think of such an absurd method.
There wasn’t anyone trillionaire yet in this world but from Adam’s estimations, his net worth should have already reached trillions of dollars if his cryptocurrencies were included. After all, Satania had already told him that his cryptocurrency wallet had stored 51% of the entire world’s cryptocurrency including bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies.
There was a reason why he told Satania beforehand to not obtain all of the cryptocurrencies. It to was to prevent them from negating the value of the cryptocurrency due to a lack of consumers using it.
It was like someone hoarding all of the dollars in the world. Since they could no longer use it, they might as well create a new currency that could be used again.
It was one of the reasons why not spending money and hoarding it was bad for the economy.
Adam never had any plans of not spending his money since money was created to be spent. But for now, he didn’t have any reasons to spend money and he wasn’t the type who would spend it pointlessly.
“But to think that the school belle was targeted by Serpent Hand. Her identity must be deeper than I have expected.”
“Of course, there is also the possibility that she was targeted by a perverted and sick stalker who has tendencies of necrophilia. After all, the world is a shit place to live in so it’s not impossible that a sick bastard like that was born.”
“Although, I have to admit. The school belle is indeed a beauty. At least, she used to be my crush when I was a freshman and she was in her second year of high school. Unfortunately, I don’t have the luxury to enjoy a normal school life after those damn bastards bullied me when I am at my lowest.”
“But if I save the school belle, although it won’t guarantee that she would fall for me, there are still the perks of having a good first impression. And not only can I hug beauty, but I can also obtain the Ultimate Bodyguard talent.”
After several minutes worth of contemplation, Adam finally decided that he would protect the school belle to not only obtain her love but also obtain the Ultimate Bodyguard talent.
“If I want to protect the school belle, I need to have my personal combat power and skills. After all, it would be too inconvenient if I brought my bodyguard to protect her. At least, I would be able to earn her recognition better if I protected her by myself.”
“Otherwise, only I would have the last cry if the school belle fell in love with my bodyguard instead of myself.”
While Adam thought of that, he was very confident about his appearance.
Although he looked gloomy and sloppy, that was due to life wearing him down. And even when he wore glasses, he still looked handsome. At least, he was like the intelligent type of handsome man.
He might not be the most handsome man in the world, he should still look pleasing to the eye after he fixed and cleaned up his appearance.
With that confidence in mind, Adam was now prepared to make preparations regarding his task of protecting the school belle.
“Satania, inform my subordinates to bring 10 death row inmates into my mansion. Tell them to purchase as many high-end guns and grenades as well as ammo.”
Hearing Adam’s command, Satania who was inside his computer screen nodded her head and immediately heeded his command.
“Since I already have a mansion, I might as well visit it and prepare my weaponry.”
“I had already hacked Serpent Hand’s main server and it seems that they are still on the move regarding the commission of assassinating the school belle Amelia Wallenstein. So I still have a decent amount of time for my preparation.”
“Boss, all of these ten are death row inmates. That I assure you. So you can use them as your shooting targets without any remorse.”A man in a black suit with black skin wearing dark shades led Adam Spencer to the backyard of a huge mansion.In the backyard, there were ten men covered with a black sack over their faces tied up on a wooden pole. Several meters in front of those ten men was a table filled with different types of guns as well as boxes of ammo.Furthermore, there were several men in black suits guarding the perimeter of the backyard as well as snipers stationed in the mountain a few kilometers away from the mansion to ensure Adam Spencer’s safety.All of Adam Spencer’s bodyguards were either retired armies or were the best members of bodyguard agencies. They were the cream of the crop and hiring them was too expensive but for Adam who was a billionaire, he could easily pay these bunch of men to die for him with just his money alone.Since their loyalty was already ensure
Not only was Adam shocked, but the rest of his bodyguards and the snipers near his mansion were shocked!Since they were professionals, they knew how difficult it was to achieve such a feat!“Boss, have you practiced shooting before? I thought this was your first time doing this?”Out of curiosity and astonishment, one of Adam’s bodyguards who had prepared the criminals and guns before asked Adam.“Nope, I haven’t. It is my first time but to think that I am a prodigy in shooting…”When Adam proclaimed himself as a prodigy in shooting, none of his bodyguards retorted since they also agreed with his statement.And Adam’s proclamation was even an understatement!Ultimate Talents were even above the talent of a prodigy! It was a talent that existed to surpass all experts in a certain field.With his Ultimate Sharpshooter talent, Adam immediately became the number 1 in gun shooting.“Okay, now that my shooting practice is over, please clean up all of these trashes.”Adam reminded his bodyg
Adam had already familiarized himself with all of the guns that he had modified and would use in the future. The only problem left was that he realized that although he was very proficient in long to mid-range battles, he was trash in close-range battles.The Ultimate Sharpshooter had only improved his eyesight as well as minor improvement in his physical capabilities but mostly his hands so that he could handle the recoil of guns.But his current physical strength wasn’t sufficient to fight against even the weakest mercenary in the dark web. Of course, he was confident that he could kill any of them as long as it was a gunfight since no one could escape his bullets.“Sigh, it would be a problem if someone managed to enter my range and fight me in close combat. I really need to finish my talent achievement task and obtain the Ultimate Bodyguard talent so that I can finally have an improvement in my physical attributes and close combat fighting skills.”Adam knew that in terms of close
While a man in a black suit announced that, Adam who was standing on the side of the room seemed to have attracted the attention of an infamous mercenary. “You runt, you should go back to drink your mother’s milk. You are still wet behind the ears to even attend this death battle. Did you really think that by equipping two snipers and many guns and ammo on your body, you would scare off veterans such as myself? Laughable!” Adam heard the ridicule and mocking that was directed towards him from a mercenary with a bald head and a scar on his right eye. On that baldy’s left eye was covered with an eyepatch which meant that his left eye was either removed or was blind and could no longer be used. And with that baldy’s tall stature and a bulky build, he looked very imposing. But Adam wasn’t intimidated by that baldy since Adam was confident in his skills as the Ultimate Sharpshooter. With a gun alone, even a weak teenager could kill the strongest martial artist in the world. Let alone Ad
When he noticed that all of the mercenaries pointed their guns toward him along with their bodies that reeked of killing intent, Adam sighed.‘Bullet Time!’When Adam activated bullet time, he felt his heart beating as if he had run multiple marathons at once! It was beating at a speed that overwhelmed Adam and it caused his body to increase in temperature every millisecond that passed.But, it wasn’t all for naught.Adam noticed that the world around him became slower. Although not that slow to the point that it was as if he was in stopped time, but slow enough to see that volleys of bullets were shot towards him.When the bullets reached a meter away from him, Adam didn’t dodge but unfastened his Beretta 92 from his bullet. With a Glock 17 in his right hand and a Beretta 92 in his left, Adam didn’t use both guns to shoot the bullets in front of him.After all, it was only a meter away from him. So he opted to use the body of his pistols to intercept bullets in front of him as he swa
Adam was completely oblivious that he had attracted Amelia’s attention. Although he didn’t hide his appearance, he still had hidden his true identity. He had used a code name in his mercenary profile. Of course, it was also impossible for someone to use his appearance to find out his identity since Satania didn’t exist for nothing. Satania would block all attempts of any identity checks on Adam. At least, identity and background checks regarding Adam would be blocked by Satania and only those that were allowed by Adam would not be blocked by Satania. So even if William Wallenstein had ordered his tech team to find information about Adam, they could only find his mercenary profile on the dark web. They could never use his appearance or any other means to find out Adam’s true identity. Of course, it was still impossible for Adam to truly hide his identity especially when someone in real life knew about him. So he couldn’t hide his identity if Amelia had found out about him in his sc
“I know that compared to those experienced assassins, a mere student like me can easily be fooled and tricked by them. But no matter how I console myself of my incompetence, it still is frustrating to be tricked by an assassin that I could easily kill with my guns.”When Adam gnashed his teeth and spoke furiously, he took out a grenade from his jacket. Pulling the pin on the grenade, Adam immediately hang the grenade on the doorknob of the locked door.Stepping back to the edge of the room, Adam took cover behind a bookshelf to shield himself from the impact caused by a grenade’s explosion. After taking cover, only several seconds had passed and Adam immediately heard a loud bang behind him.After waiting for a few seconds, Adam came out of his hiding spot and saw that door was completely obliterated with even the surrounding wall being pulverized. Cracks spread on the wall and even the explosion had caused the floor to be destroyed, revealing the first floor below it.Yes, currently,
“You, a poor man?! The chairman of a top conglomerate proclaims himself as poor?! Who the fuck do you think you are fooling?!”A man dressed in the bodyguard uniform of the Savannah Conglomerate wildly yelled in anger as he threw his knife like a dart toward William, but the knife purposely avoided a centimeter away from William’s face.But it was still enough to cause a minor slash wound on William’s cheek as blood trickled out from it. The sharp pain on his face made William know that the assassins from Serpent Hand were starting to lose their patience.Yes, the man dressed in the bodyguard uniform of the Savannah Conglomerate was not part of the bodyguard team of the Savannah Conglomerate but one of the assassins of Serpent Hand who had infiltrated the bodyguard team of the Savannah Conglomerate.And in the command room aka the 25th floor of the Savannah Branch Building, there were a total of three assassins of Serpent Hand. Joshua who was also an assassin of Serpent Hand was taske
Hearing the question from the chairman of Zeria, Adam was about to reply, but he heard a notification sound in his mind which halted his words.-Ding![Talent achievement task triggered.][Achievement condition: Negotiate with the chairman of Zeria and obtain 10% more shares from the chairman of Zeria, eventually replacing the chairman of Zeria and becoming the new chairman.][Awarded talent: Ultimate Businessman]Adam had already grown accustomed to the sudden appearance of system screens so he had also developed the skill to read the text displayed on the system screen as fast as possible.To give himself more time, Adam activated his bullet time skill just to increase his perception of time.That gave Adam enough time to read the contents of the system screen and knowing that it was about another talent achievement task, he was overjoyed!As for the talent achievement task forcing him to take 10% shares from the chairman of Zeria, Adam didn’t care much about it.After all, he didn’
Unlike most conglomerates in Japan and Korea which were called Zaibutsus and Chaebols respectively, the conglomerates in America were mostly public conglomerates.At least, the Zeria was such a public conglomerate and because of that, it wasn’t expected for the chairman to hoard the position for his family.Well, the shareholders wouldn’t mind it if it's someone from the chairman’s family line again if the successor was competent such as what happened in the Savannah Conglomerate.The shareholders such as the fourth shareholder knew of the notoriety of the granddaughter of the chairman. Surprisingly, in the family line of the chairman, only the chairman was excellent at business yet even the chairman’s sons and daughters weren’t suited to become chairman.The fact that the chairman chose her granddaughter meant that she was the best option he had yet that granddaughter of his was barely capable of leading Zeria.At least, they knew that if the granddaughter of the chairman became the
After saying his introduction, the chairman spoke again, “I am already getting old. Someone needed to inherit Zeria before I die so I have decided that my granddaughter will inherit the chairman position for Zeria.”“Do any of you disagree or not?”Although the chairman possessed 51% shares of the conglomerate and had voting rights in his shares, there were still some restrictions imposed on him as the majority shareholder.At least, his decision could be waived if at least 45% of the voting shares were used to go against his opinion. However, that restriction would only work on crucial decisions that would change the company as a whole and such a situation was one right now.After all, the change of chairman in the company would mean that the company would change as a whole. If the chairman that had inherited the former chairman’s shares was an incompetent person, then the value of the company would lower and the company would be ruined in that person’s hands.As if everyone had come
When the pair of old men and a young woman entered the meeting room, Adam noticed that the rest of the members in the meeting room seemed to have become more serious.‘Judging from the expressions of those shareholders, that old man should be the biggest shareholder in Zeria, aka the chairman of Zeria.’‘As for that woman, she is either the chairman’s secretary or she a relative of that old man?’When Adam thought of the latter, he felt that he seemed to have guessed the reason for holding the shareholders’ meeting.Of course, that was assuming the shareholders’ meeting wasn’t held to reprimand him for his absence from the conglomerate.The old man sat on the chair while the young woman stood behind him at the side.From the sitting position, Adam was sitting near the old man and the young kid from before. Their sitting position was nearest to each other as they both held the highest shares in Zeria compared to the rest of the shareholders.The old man has white hair due to old age as
Adam saw some middle-aged men and even old men come out of their luxury cars. But the one that attracted his attention the most was a young kid who seemed to be a ten-year-old.But even that kid was accompanied by a neatly dressed butler as well as several bodyguards.‘That kid must be the son of a big shot. Or he is probably one of the shareholders in Zeria and his shares must have been inherited from his father or grandfather.’When Adam thought of that, he didn’t care much since he was confident that all of them were human and he could easily kill them with just a bullet.He could even deal with hundreds of well-trained and well-armed bodyguards let alone just a bunch of them. His background and money might not be the greatest, but Adam was very confident in his combat skills so he didn’t have anything to worry about.He could even defeat Ultimate Humans who were said to be the pinnacle of human limit let alone normal humans like them.With that confidence in mind, Adam entered the
Spending his time in his underground laboratory, Adam barely had any breakthroughs in his research for the recipe for the beautification pill. However, it had only been several hours since he started and he knew that such a difficult task couldn’t be completed in just a day.But since it was already his bedtime and he had to deal with the shareholders’ meeting in Zeria tomorrow, Adam decided to end his research and continue after he was free. Anyway, he wasn’t desperate to create the beautification pill and he had plenty of time to create it.With that in mind, Adam went to his room and slept.When several hours had passed and it was already morning, Adam woke up on his bed and did his daily morning routine. Having remembered his crucial attendance at the shareholders’ meeting as it might possibly decide his future in Zeria, Adam immediately dressed up for the occasion as he wore a business suit.After finishing his preparations, Adam who didn’t want his suit to be dirtied immediately
“Boss, I apologize. The chairman of Zeria didn’t say anything about the reason for the shareholders' meeting. The chairman only said that attendance is obligatory.”Hearing that even his subordinate didn’t know anything about it, Adam could only sigh and wish that the reason wasn’t about himself. Otherwise, he would be forced to use his justice fist to control the chairman of Zeria so that he could take over Zeria.After all, he needed Zeria’s backing if he wanted to have the background to go against the military and government as well as support his father-in-law.Knowing that his subordinate couldn’t offer any more useful information, Adam only sighed and said, “Just keep an eye out for any suspicious actions in Zeria. Report to me if there is. Also, when will the shareholders’ meeting be held?”Hearing his boss’ question, Adam’s subordinate replied, “It will be held tomorrow at one in the afternoon. The meeting’s location will be in Zeria’s main headquarters on the top floor.”Afte
When Adam heard the report from his subordinate, he became curious about why Zeria had held a shareholders' meeting.“Did you inquire about the reason for the shareholders meeting held by the chairman of Zeria?”Adam was so busy dealing with the military and the UH Foundation that he barely had any time to even hold a public conference and announce his ownership of the second-biggest share in Zeria.After all, Adam was the second biggest shareholder of Zeria and he still had yet to officially announce his ownership of the second biggest shares. Although it was already transferred under his name, Zeria was a public conglomerate after all and they would hold a press conference whenever a new shareholder took place.It was for the sake of credibility and fanfare. Zeria made themselves known to the public because of that.So, Adam was already contacted by the chairman of Zeria regarding his upcoming press conference long before and Adam had put that on hold due to how busy he was. It was
“Yeah, yeah, I don’t care about those. I better get my end of the deal after I finish a few more missions.”Although Adam didn’t care about it, he still had to act as if he cared about it so that the military wouldn’t be suspicious that he had other motives for helping them.When Trevor heard Adam’s words, he nodded his head, “I will tell that to my higher-ups.”Receiving Trevor’s reply, Adam knew that Trevor was only a sergeant and he didn’t have much power in the military compared to those generals. Trevor was only doing his job so Adam didn’t blame him for it.“Are there any missions or not?”Knowing that the missions of the military had a high chance of triggering a talent achievement task, Adam asked Trevor about it out of curiosity.In response, he saw Trevor shook his head and answered, “As for now, there aren’t any missions related to the Ultimate Humans or the UH Foundation.”After receiving Trevor’s response, Adam didn’t bother about it anymore and left the military camp but