Chapter 17: The First Client

The white systems not working like systems was partially true, but Keith felt that way only because he never put any effort into controlling his systems.Norn died before Keith could even do a thing and his new system user, Sahoy had gotten the system last night. As for the target of the protection system, Keith still hadn't given it to her.

The reason why he picked the Church of Money was because their higher officials were extremely corrupt and there was a 99% chance of them taking advantage of the young lady who would've already become an official member of the church by now.

Keith silently walked at the side of the street while the carriages moved at the center of the roads. Hawkers and random people tried to advertise their products at the side of the roads.

As for the pedestrians, they had no choice but to walk right beside the line of hawkers and movable stalls if they didn't want to get stomped by animals or get cussed at for walking at the middle of the road.

Keith stopped in front of a man who was standing beside a human rickshaw with an open roof. Instead of a human rickshaw, it would have been more accurate to call it a modified human pulled cart instead as it did not have a seat for humans to sit on.

Instead, there were stacks of newspapers.

Keith recalled the prices of newspapers and looked at the thin, brown skinned man as he put his hand in his pocket and pulled out a brak coin.

"Tokens for one brak." he said and the man nodded in response as he took the coin and put it into his leather pouch. He then grabbed a small stack of thin yellow papers and gave Keith three of them.

Keith just took two and pointed at the newspapers, "I'll take one of those for now instead."

"As you wish, young man." the guy said as he grabbed one of the newspapers and gave it to Keith with a smile on his face, "Have a nice day!"

"You too." he replied back with a smile before leaving with the newspaper in hand. As he walked, he put the tokens in a separate pocket.

Minutes passed by and he finally walked into the inn, and then headed into the main office.

All four of them were already inside and Keith greeted them with a slight nod, "Morning everyone."

"Keith." the man who was the oldest in the room said with a smile on his face before pointing a finger towards himself, "You left before I introduced myself yesterday." Sёarᴄh the NovelFire.net* website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

"Ah yeah, sorry about that."

"Nah nah, I'm growing old and forgetful already. It's not your fault. As for my name, you can call me Edward and we're good." he said with a warm and wise smile.

Amelia energetically quipped in, "Yeah, you can also call him uncle Ed just like me."

"Yeah I like the ring of it." Keith said, smiling.

Brandon knocked on his table a few times, getting every single one of their attention.

"We have a client and we must meet them at their mansion. The pay is good, so expect a nice bonus." he said with a relaxed expression on his face before grabbing a piece of paper that was on the table.

"Our client this time is a baronet. Not a true noble, but hey, at least he's rich. Anyways, moving on to the main point, he says that he found this in front of his door yesterday and along with this was a letter that said, "You're Next." and well... the guy is currently lying on his bed with a high fever."

He then grabbed something from his drawer and placed it on the table for everyone to see.

Keith immediately recognised it as this was the same exact circular object that he had seen the assassin place on Norn's body after killing him. Apart from that, his little finger began to twitch.

He silently lifted his hand and balled his fist except that one finger so that everyone in the room could see.

"So this is the way you sense danger?" Amelia asked curiously as her eyes stayed on his pinky.

"One of the ways, yes. The shaking of my finger means the lowest level of danger. If I feel my arms hurting, then that's the second level and finally, when everything around me slows down including myself while only my thoughts move at a regular speed.

Third level means that I'm extremely close to death. Second means that there's a chance of me dying and also includes the chance of getting injured. First one i simply just a chance of injury. It can range from 20 percent to 100 percent, but this does not mean death." he explained as he walked towards the table and looked at Brandon as he pointed at the item.

Brandon nodded as watched Keith grabbed the item before dropping it onto the table immediately.

"Level two. There's a high chance of this man getting attacked and there's a possibility of anyone getting attacked as long as they are in possession of this." Keith said as he rubbed his forearm and took a few steps backwards.

Brandon nodded and turned to look at Edward, who stood up from his rocking chair.

"Well then, I'll explain the how things normally work as we move. You'll also have to learn about everyone's awakened abilities too." Ed said as he walked towards the door, which Keith and the others right behind him.

He looked older than everyone in the group, but just from the way he walked, Keith could infer that the man in front of him was extremely active. He followed Edward to a normal looking carriage and got inside.

Once he did, Edward began to explain.

"Let's start with me first." he said, "I just have a regular physical strength enhancement. Nothing too serious, so I'm just slightly stronger than a regular human. As for Amelia... she's an interesting child."