'Looks like I got back,' thought Tony with a sigh of reminiscent and a mix of regret.
'Master please check your Soul Power stats. You're awarded 10 Soul Power points,' said a mechanical voice.
Opening up the upgrade panel Tony clicked on the plus button to increase his Soul Power until the plus sign disappeared.
Soul Power: 35
After he finishes, Tony again feels a warm clear sensation throughout his body. This time he found something different like something solid within him which is his spirit.
If his intelligence is at 170 points right now it already exceeds the 'talented level' and stands at the 'genius level' at 200 intelligence points. Around where characters like Sheldon Cooper, Bruce Banner and Tony stark stand.
Tony can sense that his mental thought processing has become even more through. The many things that confuses him before when he was reading through the science journals now makes sense.
Picking up a basic textbook on human geography on the floor near his bed. Tony begins reading and finds himself able to 'photograph' the whole entire page into his mind.
"Woah. I have photographic memory!" Tony says to himself in surprise.
As he was reading he found reading through the textbook was a very simple task. Not only can he easily photograph the page into his head. Additionally he can also understand everything that was written.
Putting down the human geography textbook after reading through half of the book in less than 15 minutes. Tony decides to start reading the mathematical textbook he was reading before he was sent on the mission.
Reading the textbook Tony finds himself able to multitask by doing complex calculations in his head. As though he was able to understand the ideas in the book on one side while calculating through the equations at a super fast speed.
'I'm so good at math now, it's like I make Einstein look like an elementary math student,' giggling as he enjoys his newfound ability.
'Master, you have a new mission. You will be transported to in 2 years time,' System interrupted the quiet experimentation of Tony. As a transparent panel pops in front of his sight.
Universe: True Beauty by Yaongyi
Mission 1: Reborn as Woohyun Ji and become a world class writer
of countless best-sellers by age 13.
Mission 2: Date Jugyeong Lim
Mission 3: Love her true beauty and give her happiness.
"Fuck you System! Why did you give me such a dumb mission," Tony complains in a loud voice at this new task.
Never in a million years would he expect that the next mission would be a romantic one. Although he has no problems with dating girls, he just finds it a bit bothersome.
True Beauty is a manhwa that is about this protagonist named Jugyeong Lim who in the beginning was bullied for her appearance. Soon she becomes very skilled at using makeup.
When she arrived at her high school everyone was fooled by her now beautiful appearance believing that she's naturally gorgeous. And is mainly about her challenges in her daily life and dream of becoming a cosmetologist.
Despite the fact that she suddenly became her school's prettiest pretty girl it comes with a bittersweet challenge to keep her 'real self' a secret. Moreover the guy she's dating in the mangwa never knew her truth.
During the initial story Woohyun Ji is a side character who acts gentlemanly and kind during their first date. But then the story reveals his evil intent of playing with Jugyeong's feelings.
Not only did he ignore Jugyeong's text he was also in a relationship with multiple other girls when he was dating her. And was a guy introduced by Sujin Kang who had antagonistic feelings towards Jugyeong.
'Man, I got a bad feeling that in the future there will be more of these underdog stories,' said Tony with a smug annoyance on his face, 'it's kind of ironic that this time I will be playing that guy.'
Getting up from bed Tony started to get ready for the day. Along with some thoughts on how to quickly earn some money, 'Although I can still live on the savings from my summer job for another month. It will run out before I know it. Time to put my brain to its proper use.'
He decided to simply skip out on the classes for a few days. Since he can easily learn everything by reviewing the stuff later.
Right now it is 2000 so it is quite difficult to gather information online. Soon Tony came up with an idea to go gambling with a $1000 to start off.
Getting dressed properly Tony headed for the university library where he began to look for a computer. Once he got on he began to search through information on gambling forums.
Pretty soon through reading a couple forums he finds out how many of the gambling concepts work. In his past life he never got into playing his money because he was too broke so he has to figure out how gambling works.
Then he headed to the casino to start doing some blackjack. Walking to the nearest table his body posture was erect with confidence and smoothness that resembles a man who knows what he's doing.
The others at the table didn't think much of him. Only as another young man about to fall into addicting gambling ways.
However, their expectations were broken within an hour as Tony's chips only kept increasing and increasing. From the forums he was only able to gather basic blackjack strategies.
However, with his genius intelligence he was able to extract the foundational information to higher levels of mastery. The scene was exactly like that of "Rain Man" or "The Hangover". As people begin to gather around him.
In less than an hour his original $1000 stake has multiplied 10 times. Then within a couple hours more, from $10,000 it multiplied to an exponential amount of $100,000.
Seeing the mounting amount of chips at the table Tony chose to deposit the money in his bank card and left the casino.
When he was out of the casino Tony heard a voice from behind calling out at him, "Give me the money or I'll break your leg." Turning back he saw a man wearing some dirty white stained shirt in a mid baldish hairstyle with a mean look on his face.
The man was carrying a knife that he was holding on the right threatening Tony. When he looked back he saw another white man with greased hair who was holding a metal rod.
Tony only looked up in the evening sky with the sun about to set thinking, 'Am I a magnet for being threatened? Why do you do this God?'
Then the mid-bald man stepped closed to Tony thinking that he didn't hear him and said the same thing again. Tony quickly reached his body in a split second and charged with all his strength at the man's solar plexus. Leaving him puking his food on the ground.
"W..What are you doing!?" The other with a rod begins to swing at Tony thinking he has an advantage with the weapon. Tony easily dodges the swing and swings a hook at him from the right.
Without saying a word Tony simply left the scene. Leaving the grease-head clutching to his painful stomach area and the other screaming like a baby in pain.
For the next 6 days he would spend most of his time at different casinos. After he finished winning all the money at all the in-city casinos he would go to other casinos in different areas. Within 6 days he was able to rake over $1 million dollars.
Additionally he would also spend half of the day when he was at the different cities in the local library. Looking through any coding and computer programming books he could find.
Since he went to the Lookism world besides looking at technical books he has also planned to bring many of these innovative ideas back into this world.
Finishing gathering all the money from gambling in the casino Tony invested half of the money in stocks. Since he has a perfect memory of many details in the future, he's able to gather enough information on the most profitable stocks of the future.
Now he also resigned from his university and bought a small single-family home. Additionally he also bought a new computer to start practicing his programming.