Chapter 185: Playing around

The chilly atmosphere suddenly became even more frosty as the surroundings temperature seemed to have fallen below freezing point.Even the expressions of the three women behind Maximus turned grave, and they immediately tried to get close to their husband.

"Enough!" David suddenly spoke in a low voice. Although his voice wasn't loud, it made the hearts of everyone shudder.

Especially Maximus, who clutched his head as if it had been hit by a hammer and fell to the ground in agony, crimson blood starting to trickle out of his mouth.

"Husband, are you okay!" his women cried out together, rushing towards him with worried expressions on their faces. S~eaʀᴄh the NovelFire.net* website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

Now that Mary had made her stance clear, there was no need for this drama to continue.

"Let's go," David said. After this incident, he wasn't in the mood to buy flowers anymore. But on second thought, why should he let someone like Maximus affect his mood? So, he walked to another stall selling flowers and bought them all.

The seller cried tears of joy and hurriedly packed them for David.

"Here are your flowers, milady. Please accept them," he said, handing her one of the flowers with a smile on his face.

The flowers resembled roses, but their petals were transparent and filled with strange patterns that seemed to be alive.

Mary immediately smiled like a flower and gracefully accepted the gift.

They seemed to have completely forgotten about the incident from a moment ago.

The duo moved through one stall after another, buying anything they liked, chatting and laughing like teenagers with no care in the world.

In a small room inside the city, Maximus' eyes abruptly snapped open. He hurriedly tried to get up, only to fall once again.

Noticing the commotion, his wives rushed into the room with worried expressions on their faces.

"Are you okay?" the green-haired woman asked in a gentle tone.

Seeing his wife's worried look, Maximus' expression eased.

He nodded in their direction to ease their tense nerves.

The next moment, the figure of the black-haired young man appeared in his head, making him frown.

'Who was that young man?'

Sadly, there was no one to answer Maximus' question.

...

"Hahahaha! Young friend David, you must be tired from the long journey. Why don't you stay at my place for some time?" Luke Moonshadow said, laughing.

"Apologies, fellow Daoist, but I am in a hurry," David smiled and calmly replied.

He had no interest in visiting the Moonshadow family.

Some time ago, while David was enjoying the local cuisine, Moonshadow had suddenly approached him.

David wasn't surprised, as he could feel that Luke was also at the Void Refining Realm, but to him, Luke looked incomparably weak. He had a feeling that if he wanted to, he could easily defeat Luke.

In no time, they had become friends, or at least pretended to be, with Luke's help, David and Mary were easily able to enter the city.

After hearing David's words, Luke's eyes flashed with disappointment. Although he couldn't tell the young man's cultivation, he felt that the young man was definitely stronger than him, which was surprising, as he himself was an early Void Refining Realm expert.

But in the end, Luke didn't insist and politely took his leave.

David watched Luke's receding figure and sighed. The guy was good at doing his thing, and although he had interacted with David for some time, he had left a profound impression.

At this time, Mary walked closer, having finished her snacks, and said in a low voice, "You should recruit him. After all, we need manpower to protect the teleportation station."

David sighed again after hearing her words, but immediately shook his head. Everything to get rich and powerful.

Time continued to flow like water, and two days passed in the blink of an eye.

David and Mary were sitting in a new building that he had recently bought, sipping a cup of S-presso coffee.

After running around and brain-chewing negotiations, David had managed to buy this building to open the second branch of the bank.

The building had cost him a fortune. After working nonstop for a day, David had designed the interiors to resemble the bank at the Nightblade city.

Just like the one there, this branch also had a size-adjustment formation.

Now, he just needed to arrange a manager for this one, as he couldn't be at the two branches at the same time.

While he was thinking, a prompt suddenly appeared in front of him.

[The system has detected that the host had successfully established the second branch.]

[However, there can only be one manager of the bank, but to ensure smoothness in operation, the host can appoint an assistant manager, given that they meet the required criteria.]

[New mission had been issued: Buy the building of the Nightblade City bank branch.

Reward - The ability to teleport to any branch at any time.]

[This mission has been automatically accepted. Please try to complete it as soon as possible.]

David's vision was suddenly bombarded by notification after notification, as if floodgates had been suddenly opened.

It took him a moment to go through all the information, and when he read about the mission rewards, his eyes lit up.

That ability would be super convenient. And the mission also made sense, as it was better to buy the building as soon as possible rather than continue paying rent.

David decided the first thing he would do is to buy that building after returning.

Mary repeatedly blinked her eyes and looked at David's dazed figure.

This time, she wasn't able to hold back her curiosity and finally asked, "Darling! What are you doing?"

David, who was about to ask the bank what the criteria for appointing an assistant manager was, stopped and looked at her.

"Me? My master was instructing me," David immediately said, as if the answer had been prepared beforehand. He was already expecting such a question for a long time, as anyone would be curious if it was just that Mary had taken too long to question.

Anyway, he was already prepared to bullshit his way out of it.

Mary looked at his proud face and didn't know what to say. Although it sounded unbelievable, it could explain a lot of things, for example, his abnormal growth. Mary had rarely seen him cultivating, but he was already stronger than her.

Seeing her suddenly fall silent, an awkward smile appeared on his face.

'Don't tell me she really believed it.'

After that, both of them fell silent. Seeing that Mary had no intention of speaking, David once again returned to his business.

[Criteria to appoint Assistant managers -

1 - Loyalty meter - should be above 80%

2 - Should have sufficient strength to dominate the nearby region.]

David fell deep in thought after looking at the criteria. He understood both of the points, but he had a question: how was he going to measure intangible things such as loyalty?

His eyes suddenly landed on Mary, who was looking at him with her big black eyes.

Above her head floated an almost invisible screen containing some information.

[Loyalty - 100%, you can trust her blindly; she will never betray you.]

David frowned. The window was telling him to trust her completely, but could he trust the window itself?

Of course, he was just kidding. If he couldn't even trust the system, who was he going to trust?

Seeing his eyes return to normal, Mary asked, "What was your master teaching you?"

Hearing her question, David coughed and seriously said, "It is a serious matter and can't be discussed."

Mary pouted at his response and turned her head away.

David only curled his lips and didn't say anything else. He got up and walked out, thinking about how good it would have been if he got another Origin Guard for this bank's branch as well.

Anyway, it was time to create the teleportation station.

One month passed in the blink of an eye.

Outside the Crouching Tiger City, David stood atop a huge rectangular platform with a contemplative expression.

The teleportation formation was finally built, and Mary had worked tirelessly the whole month, right now she was inspecting the formation for one last time.

Suddenly, the formation started to glow and let out a loud whine that caused the air around them to vibrate.

For a moment, David thought he was back in the forest outside the Nightblade City.

The sensation disappeared as quickly as it came.

At this time, Mary walked toward him with a tired expression on her face. Drawing such a big formation alone was really tiresome.

"Finally done. Now, how are you going to reward me for my work?" she said.

David also agreed with her words - she really deserved an award for working nonstop for so long.

"Tell me what you want," he decided not to be stingy and graciously offered.

"Anything you say!" Mary licked her lips while scanning his body up and down with hungry eyes.