Wizard Of Cosmos

06 - We Can Earn Much More

“I am here to apply for the Endless.”

Jason ignored the disdainful look the guy behind the counter had when he placed the stack of papers in front of him.

He knew doing things like this was way outdated, but he had his reasons. Besides, it was clearly mentioned that the application could be delivered by hand. 

The girl next to the guy looked at his face for a few seconds. It was as if she was trying to determine if he was joking or not. After a few seconds, she took the application into her hand and walked to a computer. 

“Sir. Can you see if there are any errors in the details I enter?”

She pointed at the screen facing Jason.

“Sure.”

He stood in front of the screen as the girl skillfully entered his details into an online form. After that, she returned the form to him to check if everything was clear. 

“It is correct.”

Jason felt relieved after checking everything for a second time. He didn’t want to get rejected even before getting started. 

He gave the girl his credit card as he felt the pinch. Just a few minutes ago he received fifty-thousand dollars in his bank account. An amount that he had never seen in his entire life and now thirty-thousand from that money was gone. 

‘Sigh.’

He felt a slight heartache when he saw his card getting accepted. 

“Sir, please place your hand here.”

The girl placed a box-like machine on the counter. 

For a moment, Jason failed to breathe, but he hurriedly made his expression calm before placing his hand on the box. 

He didn’t know what the box was, but he knew the part that covered his arm when he placed his hand on it. It looked like a thin rectangular solar panel that covered half of his arm.

It was the Armband.

Every player would receive one of these when they entered the game, and all the other people would receive one when they entered the Yuriel five years later. It was the one that allowed them to understand all the languages. 

This was the reason a global server wasn’t a problem, and this armband was much more advanced than anything else. 

‘But this is from the World Builders. I hope it will be okay since there wasn’t a problem with it until the end.’

He had no issue with his armband until the last moment. Besides, this armband had more uses than translation. It was able to monitor the body condition of the user along with the ability to speak foreign languages. The unit actually sent the signals to the human brain.

“Thank you, sir. That is all.”

“Ah… Please give me three bottles of nutrient fluid.”

He didn’t take the card off her hand, because he had something else he needed to buy. This was the secret he was willing to share with Ashley Steel, but he still felt the pinch. It was three hundred dollars for the three bottles. 

…

Jason saw Ashely was looking at the information about the Endless on her phone when he walked back to them. 

There was a great sitting area in the building and the two girls were waiting for him there. He realised how rich they were when he came here in their Rolls-Royce.

“Here.”

He placed two silver-coloured bottles in front of the girls and sat on another chair with his bottle in hand. He really wanted to buy a few more of these, but he didn’t have a freezer to keep them for the time being. 

“What is this?”

“It is what I wanted to tell you about. Take a sip.”

This secret would take more time to come out. 

The drinkable version of the nutrient fluid was much more expensive compared to the one that came with the gaming cabin. However, the price skyrocketed when people learned the effects of this fluid. 

As for exposing it this early, Jason had no regrets. He knew he wouldn’t be able to buy it for too long, and he wasn’t planning on relying on it for a very long time. He just wanted to use it to build up his body from its current weakened state. 

For that, he planned to consume a bottle each day until the game was launched.

“This?”

Ashley looked at Jason with a puzzled look before reading the description of the bottle.

“You are the one who really should drink it.”

Jason looked at Freya. She would be the one to identify the real effects of the fluid.

“Me? Why?”

Freya still didn’t like this boy very much. 

“Because you know who to fight. Weren’t you planning on attacking me when you came to talk to me?”

On the other hand, Jason didn’t care about her feelings at all. All he wanted was to have the rest of the money.

“Me? No.”

She denied the fact that she thought this guy was stalking them.

“Really? I thought you were about to jab my face from the left and pull out your gun from the right hand.”

“Huh?”

Freya was shaken when she heard those words. This was exactly what she was about to do, but she didn’t think this guy would have noticed it.

‘He was so relaxed even after knowing I was about to attack him?’

She suddenly started reevaluating Jason.

“You can fight with that body?”

“That is why I should get in shape. Try that and tell me the effect.”

Jason opened his bottle and took a sip. He was actually nervous and in a hurry. He was nervous because he never tasted one of these in his previous life and he had no idea if it was as effective as people said. The hurry was because of the desperation for that remaining fifty thousand. 

‘Amazing.’

He felt the energy flowing inside his body the moment he took a sip. This reminded him of several potions he had when he was in Yuriel. Although this drink wasn’t like those magical potions, it had the effect he wanted. The energy was what he needed to build his body. 

Freya gave a suspicious look to Jason before taking a sip from the bottle. 

First, she frowned when the ice-cold liquid entered her body, but in the next second her eyes widened with surprise. 

“Amazing!”

“Is it?”

Ashley was still reading the instructions.

“It is the best energy drink I ever had. I guess the price is reasonable. But… I don’t understand how this is going to affect The Endless.”

Freya was more than happy to spend her money on a drink like this, but that was because she loved to train.

“Did you read about The Endless? Did you guys see the part about the initial stats of the players that will depend on their actual body condition?”

“Yeah, I saw something like that.”

“Then does your studio actually have physically fit gamers?”

He knew most of the gamers were not into physical training.

“Wait. You want us to train them?”

Freya was the first to catch up.

“With this fluid, you can train your players within the next twenty-four days. Although it won’t have a miraculous effect, you can actually send in a group of physically fit people.”

“Can this be done?”

Ashley looked at her cousin for a piece of advice. 

“It is not impossible.”

Freya was actually impressed by Jason. Although she still didn’t like him much, she admitted that he knew what he was doing. 

“So… Is it worth it?”

Jason finally came to the real point. It was all about his fifty-thousand.

“Alright. I will agree, Mr Jason. But I still have a condition.”

This time, Ashley didn’t hesitate.

“Sigh. Name it.”

Jason really felt the effects of being poor. Just buying the cabin wasn't enough for him.

“I want you to join our Guild.”

“Ashley!”

Freya admitted Jason was impressive, but he wasn’t a pro gamer.

“But….”

Jason already rejected this once.

“Before you reject, I am not asking you to join my studio. Just the guild in The Endless.”

Ashley tapped Freya’s hand, giving her a signal to wait. 

“And?”

Jason compromised a bit.

“Nothing much. Help us out if necessary.”

Jason fell into thought. 

He saw a weird look on Freya’s face, but he had his reasons. This was Yuriel they were talking about. A world twenty times bigger than the earth with six large continents and countless island nations. A world that was full of danger and magic. To him, it wasn’t a game at all. 

‘Sigh. I really need that money.’

He wasn’t sure about renting an apartment for a year, even in the suburbs, with the money he had. Besides, he needed a few more things.

“Alright, But I am moving on my own and I am not going to do guild tasks unless it is necessary.”

“Alright. I will ask my secretary to make an agreement and send it to you right now.”

Ashley answered happily.

…

“Are you sure about this, Ashley?”

“He already studied a lot about the game, Freya. He is useful. Besides, we can easily find where he is going to live.”

She already made an agreement with the guy and even introduced a real estate agent. She could easily find where he was going to live if he was to bail on her money. Steel corporations wasn’t some small company without power, and she knew how to do business. 

“Do you think this drink can make a difference?”

“We might have to push them a bit, but yes.”

“Then there is nothing to worry about. As long as this game is good, we can earn much more.”