Chapter 86: Contacting Arabella and Juvia

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Three days after the conflict, Hiro checked the clearance notification and sighed. He didn't expect to get so many points all at once, especially since he had been harvesting an average of 5,000 daily points from his pocket dimension.

Now, his points were just a tiny sliver away from 20,000. Although it seemed like a lot of points, Hiro understood deep down that this wasn't the case.

Hiro quickly brought up his demon character information.

[Name: Hiro Sciatis.

Race: Demon.

Bloodline: N/A

Level: 45.

XP: 21%

Spells: Sorcerer's Guide to the Five Elements, Infinite Sword Matrix.

AP: 29,108.

Gems: 9.

Skills: Immersive Reading, Professional Calligraphy, Analytical Mind, Professional Combat, Professional Soccer, Espionage IV, Telepathy.

Inventory: Lvl. 1 Mass Enlightenment Scroll, Game Voucher (2).]

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Looking at the mass enlightenment scroll, Hiro recalled something.

Long ago, he obtained two chapters from an item called the Book of Revelations, and they were the divination chapter and the curse chapter respectively.

Hiro searched the system space with his consciousness and found the book.

"Mhm? It's absorbing faith energy?" Hiro noticed that the once dim and lifeless book was radiating with a holy aura.

He immediately recognized this aura as the faith energy from his pocket dimension.

"It has to be faith energy? I can't use gems or achievement points to use this book?"

[Notice: The Book of Revelations exists and operates within the laws, and it consumes faith energy or lifespan as a sacrifice to operate.]

Hiro hesitated.

Lifespan didn't need to be mentioned, and he didn't know the ratio that must be sacrificed.

As for faith energy, it was the foundation of his territory. In a sense, faith energy could be treated as a special kind of resource, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it the hard currency of the Gods.

However, divination was a very useful ability to have, especially when Hiro was out to unravel schemes and plots from his enemies.

For example, if he paid the sufficient price now, he could easily figure out the identities of the traitors in the Demon Tower.

Furthermore, he wouldn't be using the system's ability to accomplish this feat, but he would be relying on his own capabilities. Sёarch* The nôvel_Fire.ηet website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

All these thoughts about faith energy and whatnot reminded Hiro that he had yet to check on Arabella and the others through the immaterial domain's connection.

After washing up and going downstairs and into his office, Hiro locked the door and sat on the leather, high-back chair.

He closed his eyes and began to extend his senses. Hiro had to admit that locating the Unfathomable Throne when he wasn't inside his pocket dimension was harder than expected.

However difficult it was, Hiro patiently waited while concentrating. A few minutes later, Hiro finally grasped the right feeling, and his consciousness left his body, entering the immaterial domain.

A high throne stationed above a running river of faith energy, extending like the Milky Way through a vast ocean of stars situated right outside the magnificent hall.

Into the sea of stars, two constellations stood out conspicuously, outlining the shape of a seductive demoness and a slumbering dragon.

Hiro focused his sight on the constellation representing Arabella, and as the stars shifted, they formed a hazy screen.

In the screen, Arabella's figure took form before her surroundings turned crystal clear.

The river of faith energy below began to churn and boil, a clear indicator that the energy was being exhausted at an alarming rate.

Hiro sent out a telepathic thought through the projection of faith energy, his voice sounding in Arabella's head.

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Sciatis Holdings Limited, Executive Floor.

Seated with the floor-to-ceiling window as her backdrop, dressed in a high-class purple suit and a pair of silver-rimmed glasses, Arabella was focused on tapping away at one column of information after another.

Multiple holographic screens shifted, projected from the sci-fi desk that was connected to multiple international servers.

When Arabella heard Hiro's voice sounding in her head, her hands shook and she almost missed a key window in the stock exchange, which would have cost the company millions of international currency in investments.

However, a small emoticon of a cute robot with the words "Ei" displayed on its screen jumped from the corner, keeping up with the operation.

Meanwhile, Arabella pulled back from the sci-fi dashboard and responded with a telepathic thought, densely packed with a myriad of emotions.

"Master? You're finally willing to contact me!"

"I don't have much time," Hiro wasn't willing to burn through his faith energy so extravagantly. "How's the progress with expansion overseas and the Seeker's Legend expansion pack?"

Arabella pushed down her impatience and condensed a load of information into a telepathic thought and sent it to Hiro.

As a succubus, such mental tricks were her bread and butter, and she didn't need to expend too much energy for something so simple.

She didn't only update Hiro on the company's affairs, but she also brought up Natali and the nightclub, Myriad Evils, in the compiled list.

There were also bits and pieces about the daily lives of Bella, Aiya, Rosaline, Marcus, Vanti, and Elvin in her report.

Worth noting was that a woman called Berlin kept on visiting his mansion on Tsukiyomi Lake's Third Ring, and Sebastian was finding it difficult to keep her in check. Stay updated through m-v l|-NovelFire.net

It wouldn't be long before she came knocking on the company's doors at this rate.

As for overseas expansion, things went on smoothly with the covert help from the Wind Blessed company and its internal network of connections.

Sciatis Holdings Limited started to branch out from a tech and gaming-oriented focus to real estate, angel investment, entertainment, fashion, and security.

It couldn't be helped.

With Arabella's current business acumen, investing all of that intelligence into one business venture would be torturous.

Thus, she could only branch out to other avenues if she wanted to keep her workaholic tendencies sanity in check.

As for the Seeker's Legend, the new patch that includes the division between the Western Side of the Universe and the Eastern Side of the Universe is about to be introduced.

After Sciatis Holdings Limited established a foothold in the eastern mainstream gaming market and acquired the necessary server providers, they would launch the closed beta.

Once the foundation is firm enough, both servers in the Western Continent and the Eastern Continent will launch the open beta for the new update.

Hiro didn't care about the little details too much, but this long-term plan would take a year at minimum to be executed.

After giving Arabella some nice compliments and sufficient praise for her hard work, he disconnected from the telepathic connection and switched targets to Juvia.

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At the moment, Juvia was accompanying a team of leaders on a routine inspection.

This was standard protocol after a promotion, as the leaders of her new workplace were getting to know her and vice versa.

"You're so young, yet you're already the Deputy Chief of the Commission for Discipline Inspection, how promising!"

A leader who was a woman in her late forties complimented Juvia, a hint of admiration and bitterness in her eyes.

Juvia smiled humbly and lowered her head, albeit not too much. "You praise me too much, Cheif Zayne… My position sounds glorified, but I'm just the deputy in a small district, nothing worth mentioning."

Chief Zayne was the big boss in a city-wide region, while Juvia was the deputy in a district-wide region. Even if the difference between their titles seemed to be no more than one level, only an idiot would buy that.

Even if Juvia was promoted to the position of a chief, she would only jump from a district-wide office to a small town.

At best, she would become a Mayor's secretary, and the road from there to getting a position of power and influence on a city scale was an arduous journey.

Chief Zayne was very satisfied with Juvia's performance over the past half a year.

Despite her beautiful and delicate appearance, she didn't shy away from getting her hands dirty, tough labor, and sleepless nights on the job.

Also, she was very clever and all her immediate superiors thus far gave recommendations with flying colors.

Some of her past superiors had nefarious thoughts of impending her development just to keep her as their right-hand woman.

Even then, Juvia never doubled-crossed her superiors or skipped a chain of command to get her way.

The more Chief Zayne looked at Juvia, the more she liked her.

Hiro watched this interaction on the screen and figured that he didn't need to intervene in Juvia's matters.

Even if he wanted to, he didn't dabble much in politics to begin with. At most, he could only help her by upgrading her political wisdom, but it was too early for that.

When Juvia wasn't in the immediate vicinity of any of the leaders, Hiro sent her some praise and a lighthearted sentence carrying his expectations for her in a telepathic thought.

He told her that he's always keeping an eye on her and is looking forward to her progress on her path as a public servant, then cut off the connection.