Chapter 178: Planning The Qin Family Extermination Part 1

As the days passed, the old Flim Village was no longer anywhere to be seen. Now tall walls surrounded part of what now could be considered an actual city. Within these walls were tall buildings, some of which reached thirty stories high. There were even mechanical machines powered by magic walking along the streets carrying materials. When FingerSandwhich said he was going to recruit everyone needed to make Ryu's city a dream, he truly meant it. Now there were many guilds all sporting the Serenity name. Each one was a division for a certain aspect, from resource gathering to research and development of new technologies that could be built within the game. Many scientists flocked to FingerSandwich's call in order to satisfy their curiosity. 

No one knows if this was what the creators of Soul Fusion Online had in mind when it came to playing this game, but Ryu really didn't care. He saw his dream city being built and felt a sense of accomplishment just looking at it. Many companies had even begun to contact FingerSandwhich and GreenHat, trying to get a piece of the pie. After all, in game money was worth a lot in the real world. This could also be why Soul Fusion Online devs did not stop Ryu since they were actually gaining a huge profit themselves from the conversion charge.

With people making money in game, they were also bolstering the real world economy.  While some analysts talked about having too many people working and living in game and not working during the day would cause the downfall of society. It seemed that things were actually not as bad as they thought. Mainly because people still needed to eat and drink. More people were going out to party and dine at restaurants as well. More and more businesses were beginning to really boom with the money people were spending. And a lot of it had to do with people moving out of poverty due to the money they could make in game. With many companies investing in the game and making big returns, the wages of their employees were also going up, making working worthwhile even for the simplest jobs.

While some people were indeed quitting their jobs, this opened up a new slot for someone who was searching for a job to fill that position. But the actual stability of the current trend was unknown. Those worried about what was going to happen to society set a petition to the royal family to step in, but the royal family only gave one answer. "If you keep sending me these useless notices, I will have you executed." This was all that was needed for those who sent the petition in to shut their mouths and leave the subject alone.

As for Ryu, who was the main cause of this, he was currently standing at the gates of the Vaughan family looking for answers. It had been a few weeks in game, but that was only because he was busy dealing with city stuff, but now with Chi and Margie, whose cultivation was almost about to break through to the soul assimilation realm,  plus four peak soul assimilation realm experts were waiting for the guard to bring someone useful to speak to him.

Walking out with a few people following behind her, Clara walked to the gates to greet Ryu. "Ryu, It has been a while."

Margie saw two of the men standing next to Clara and snorted. "Darling~ it was these two men who were there that day."

"Oh? Clara, do you not think I deserve some kind of explanation? I thought we had a deal." Ryu's eyes turned cold as he looked at the young woman.  He felt that she was bringing these men out here to do a show of strength. Unfortunately for them….

"Explanation? I did say I would keep people from messing with your guild, but I did not mean I would protect them all the time. " Clara responded calmly. "If a few of your people get killed, there is nothing I can do about it."

"Oh, even if your people are standing right there watching the show? Let me tell you this, Miss Vaughan, you should have stuck to your deal. Because I now plan to take over the entirety of Westfall City as I expand Serenity city. I have already bought up all the land from Flim village all the way to Westfall City. In order to take over a city, I must first rid it or make the top clans of the city submit to me. It just so happens that I wish to start my own clan and to do that, my requirements are simple. Take over any clan. This means yours also fits this bill. Since you wish to act as if your promise to me is worth shit, then I will deal with you as I see fit." Ryu's words were not just acting though he meant every word of it.  He had expected Clara, who seemed like a person who would keep their word, to actually keep their word. He was very disappointed.

"If you are here to threaten my family, I suggest you not. You will not live very long by doing so. If you leave now, I will overlook your attitude this time around, but if you do not, I will be forced to get ugly." Ryu watched as Clara motioned with her hand, and then thirty people appeared behind her, all cultivators from the soul sensing realm to the soul assimilation realm. 

"Oh, a show of strength? Did you forget  who I am?" Ryu shook his head and then waved his own hand. Over one hundred people of the soul assimilation realm to soul sensing realm appeared, all of which were mercenaries. 

"You!" Clara's face paled a little, but she never thought that Ryu would have such numbers but being a clan how could their numbers be small. She was about to call more when Ryu raised his hand. 

"I will give you a chance to think about what I said and if you wish to stay as a clan of this city then I expect an apology not just from you but those two idiots as well. Now if you will excuse me I have much more important matters to deal with."  Ryu waved his hand again and the people who appeared disappeared all over again. He then turned on his heel, placed his hands behind his back, and he began whistling a song as he walked away, not even taking Clara and her people as a threat.

Clara looked at the group Ryu brought with him leave and pursed her lips. She looked at the big burly man standing next to her and asked: "Care to explain?"

"Nothing to explain I just did not feel like helping, Young Miss." The man replied.

"I see. I think my third cousin needed someone to test his concoctions on. Why don't you go and help him for a few days." Clara's words caused the man to turn pale. He dropped to his knees and began begging Clara. "Young Miss, please not that! I know I am in the wrong! The Qin family people had paid us off!"