Chapter 343: going to africa

“Master, where will be our destination?”

“I don’t know yet”. Hearing this question from Albert again for the umpteenth time, Clark grew irritated as he answered with a snap while turning to bonk his head.

The young teenager shrank as his voice lowered. “I’m sorry…”

Hearing that cheeky, fake, but weirdly adorable voice made Clark sigh exasperatedly. “Ok, go and get me the atlas ball so I can finally decide on a destination”.

Seeing Albert nod excitedly before jumping away the next moment only made him feel more like facepalming. Albert, well what could he say, as soon as King, Josh, and everyone else left him, the boy made him his force companion.

Since the first day that he knew the kid, he knew that Albert was an extrovert. Now that everyone was gone, the kid saw him as the only person to vent his urge to blabber every day on.

Yes, Albert had respect for him, but not as much as his love for blabbering non-stop every day.

Though Albert loved talking, Clark had to admit this time that what he suggested for once was sensible. He’s still not decided on the destination that he wanted to go to despite already having made up his mind to leave today.

He and Albert were currently arranging the last set of things that they intended to carry with them for their adventure, Albert was used to it so he learned a lot of useful lessons from the kid.

As a kid with a billionaire dad who already traveled to many parts of the world, Albert had more than enough experience to share.

“I guess I’ll have to choose, but where should I choose?” Clark fell into a dilemma. Not coming to any solution after a minute, he put it to the back of his mind and decided to wait until Albert came with the atlas ball.

He could easily access a virtual atlas and project it through his implant, but no, there was that magical feeling that was attached to touching it physically.

And besides, he was a fan of that blockbuster ancient movie. “What’s its name again?” He tapped his head with his right hand. “Oh, yes, coming to America. Damn! I loved that movie; ancient movies are always the best”.

Prince Akeem left his country to find love, but in his case, he was living his country to get experience to improve in his profession as a soldier. They had different motives, but they used the same method.

After leaving the lulululu games reserve yesterday, he quickly separated from Leo and went to the Spartan army headquarters with Rose.

Getting there, he did not waste much time as he was quickly attended to due to his current military rank. He only needed 10 minutes which was very simplified compared to the normal time before he got his leave permit.

After getting the leave permit, he was also given a badge. It was with these 2 things that he can be identified as a Spartan soldier outside the republic.

And with the badge, if he coincidentally met a Spartan soldier during his journeys, they could identify themselves and prevent a situation where they had to clash and even kill themselves.

As soon as he got the badge, he didn’t leave immediately, he instead went to visit Captain Oxford also.

They had a nice time, they talked, had a nice drink, and overall had a nice time before he finally left for Vatican City.

When he got back, he didn’t get to rest too as he quickly called a meeting with his commissioners. This was when he told them of his decision to leave, they were dismayed but they could only accept it.

He gave them a list of things to do on his behalf, and how to manage the city on his behalf.

He also gave them a stern warning, at least to curb any stupid thought that may crop into their minds in his absence. He never knew, the human brain never yields until it is spanked.

Leaving there, he still didn’t return to his mansion yet. He went to his mom’s restaurant. Having lost his parents, he still felt weird calling the old woman his mom, but he was somehow used to it.

She was no longer in her former restaurant, as the bigshot, he was now, Clark made sure that he relocated her to somewhere bigger but with fewer customers to patronize her.

She was already getting too old, he didn’t want her to be stressed out all the time, so that was a tactic that he used though she protested at first.

Now, her restaurant was the 3rd biggest in the city. Almost every citizen in the city knew her as he already called her his mom in public, she was practically a local celebrity now.

When he met her yesterday, they didn’t talk much, she did most of the talking. Knowing that he wanted to travel out, she sat him down and gave him elaborate lecture advice before finally releasing him.

Leaving her restaurant, Clark felt melancholic. He’s given her the restaurant of her dreams, but he still felt sad because he knew that she only had few years remaining.

He badly wanted to get her a life prolongment treatment to prolong her life, but he didn’t have the money for it. He didn’t even have the influence to get access to it, it was a sad and cruel reality.

In the end, everybody would still bend down to the rules of nature no matter if they were high-grade soldiers like his President or lunatic scientists like the one who fused him with the enhancer.

As he went through his experiences of the previous day silently, he was suddenly interrupted.

“Master, I’m back”.

He turned to see Albert with a very big atlas ball in his hand. As soon as the kid placed the atlas down, Clark went closer and touched its edges.

Some of the memories that he got from his learning years suddenly flooded his brain. In this current era, the earth was still divided into 7 continents with numerous countries living in it.

After the great battle of supremacy, a lot of countries succumbed and were annihilated from the annals of history.

Those that survived, either didn’t survive intact, grew a new identity, and some even became vassals to other countries like Josh’s country.

This was when organizations also started coming to power, they took advantage of the chaos after the great battle to carve a place out for themselves, severing the monopoly that countries originally had.

During this time of restructuring, that was when the big 5 announced the new normal governing the earth like the new military system, the new grading of countries, and all that.

For Clark’s adventure journey, he wanted to start by going to a low-grade country. Perhaps after getting more experience in the future, he would decide to go to higher-graded countries.

After calming his thoughts, he smoothly rotated the atlas ball. It rotated rapidly before becoming slow before it finally came to a stop. Its arrow pointed at a continent, before narrowing it down to a single country.

Clark raised his head to face his student. “Africa it is then”.