Not only did his refrigerator change, but his cabinets did as well!
The storage space expanded quite nicely, as countless products can be created by using some of the mana for the house that could refill in a matter of seconds.
But there was another thing that made his kitchen something that master chefs would fight to the death for, the stove could maximize the taste of any dish made with it!
That includes the healthy effects of every ingredient!
The stove can also change into an oven when needed, making it even more precious for William since he liked baking~
While he might be a hitman, William was also human with simple hobbies and a single goal in life.
To be the next Gordon Ramsay-Not!
The man just wanted to be a cook but thanks to one person attacking him hoping to steal whatever little cash he had, that very person became his first bounty, being a cook does have its perks especially if you know how to use a knife.
A simple stab to the neck and twist at the end always did the trick nicely.
But that made his business crumble since the person he killed was a gang boss's relative, giving him no choice but to kill again and collect the bounty for the man's and relative's head.
While killing such scum was lucrative for William, He just wanted to live his dream.
However, after Accidentally making a name for himself, this attracted more unsavory people that wanted to use him as their stepping stone.
This became an endless loop of him trying to stay out of the radar until he's out of money then lets himself get hired despite his reluctance while the fame and prestige seekers sought to kill him.
Guns, Poison, women, schemes, bombs, traps, they did countless other things to try and claim his life, only for each of their failures to be added into his collection of skills and their heads as bounties.
Because no matter what, a hitman will gain a bounty on their head, he too gained one, but thanks to how William did things there was no face to put on the name.
Whenever the man got hired, he'd wear a 'hulk' mask, and whenever William did a job, there would be no witnesses to prevent him from fulfilling his dream.
thus earning him the title 'faceless,' with thousands of people died because of him, many of the higher-ups no matter what country turns to him whenever there was a terribly difficult job and made sure never to meet him face to face, fearing that they'll be the next president to get killed by his hands.
that was only one time due to the bastard being an idiot, however, the others actually believed that someone hired him to kill the person, leaving another mysterious misunderstanding that plagued his revenue.
Then when he got invited by another employer that was pretty high up there, that time was not his fault.
It was due to his excess infamy, how scared the man was from his guards being dumb enough to attack him sure he slaughtered the guards that were too retarded, but the next part was due to the date.
It was July 3rd mere seconds away from the fireworks going off.
with how tense the situation was and the man going in full panic mode due to his recent actions and reputation.
One extra loud firework went off near the place they were in and the man who was going to hire him...
died of a heart attack.
That made things difficult when trying to gather enough money to buy some ingredients for his cooking!
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This is why William was pretty happy with his house's upgrades, no longer did he have to show his face to anyone just to get what was needed for his dreams.
With his track record, it might end up just like before since this world wasn't exactly safe to walk around without getting hurt in someone's crossfire, random powerhouse falling from the skies with their landings like meteorites that could kill any unlucky person.
The reason for him saying that was due to the fact that upon turning on his TV, with his demons gathered around trying to figure out what the hell it was, there was another report that a house got flattened by a cultivator, and the debris that went flying from the said person landing killed, at least, 100 people.
But that wasn't the main point of the news, they were making the person who landed carry the limelight of being another fallen powerhouse to which caused many to grieve for the cultivator's failure to ascend not for those that died due to the failure!
A truly fucked up way of thinking but that was this world's 'common sense'.
William looked through the window thanks to his senses picking up a threat.
As for what it was?
Two cultivators were fighting not too far from his house, it was hard to see them thanks to how far they were but one of them used a large insect that looked like a mosquito as one of the cultivator's mount that helped him find the two sources of the threat!
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The insect rider, wearing a large robe to hide any and all features, struck first as the mosquito's proboscis stabbed forward like a spear before a loud clang was heard.
Their opponent, who donned the typical cultivator look that made her look like a war maiden, used one of her palms to smack the proboscis away then delivered a counter-attack with the other before another loud clang was heard, the spirit beast and palm using cultivator fought viciously.
Trying to outwit each other, yet the rider seemed to be doing nothing to help the spirit beast almost as if the person was incapable of doing so.
But if one looked closer the glowing hands of the rider rested on the back of the insect spirit beast, whether if it was to continue to control it or be the cause of why this monster was what it was now remained to be seen.
This gave the war maiden a few ideas on how to win if her speculations were correct.
Noticing this, the palm using cultivator focused her attacks towards the rider.
There were no words exchanged between them, it was already past that phase, the person riding the spirit beast wanted to leave yet his adversary wouldn't allow that!
Their clashes caused some of the buildings beneath them to crumble from the shock waves, claiming more innocent lives that weren't even able to defend themselves or even escape a few meters.
There was nothing left of the victims as they all burst into bloody mists making William's face turned solemn and trying to come up with an idea on how to deal with this problem.
if there was nothing else to be done and they got closer to his house, he'll have to make full use of the stockpiled mana and begin firing all the magic missiles that he could muster!
As the extra thing about his upgrades in the house was that any stockpiled mana can quickly be used for any learned spell meaning the ones that he leveled up at least once!
William didn't want to die and them bringing trouble to his place without any regard gave him the right to defend himself.
Besides this was a world where strength was truth and whoever had the bigger fist was right~
This action would temporarily weaken the density of mana within William's house making it lose other options he hasn't checked yet but his life was more important than gimmicks that could be restored with time.
So William made his decision, used 500,000 mana to fuel his magic missiles and a little to blur his body as he moved some distance away from his house to prevent any trouble later.
the amount it gave him was 50,000 meaning they cost 10 mana each but that wasn't the most intriguing part about it every level the spell had increased the total damage by 25%.
so imagine how much they can do with them being over a hundred right now?
Upon creating them the two cultivators froze in place and turned toward where the thousands of magic missiles were conjured.
One thing was for sure, they knew that their actions may have pissed off someone as for how powerful they do not know, but they're about to find out~
As a second later, the barrage of magic missiles split into and headed for them as for whether they lived or died William didn't care but at least that will keep the idiots from possibly killing him in his sleep later!
Thanks to his actions, the former hitman, caused a great misunderstanding, as both cultivators managed to survive, obviously with the power difference between them and the temporary boost he had from the house wasn't strong enough to kill them, however, it was enough to weaken them to make both cultivators retreat and ignore each other!
This made them both return to their respective bases and do the one thing the man didn't think about.
They reported their experience and exaggerated things out of proportion from fear and the near-death experience despite all of the life-saving tools that kept them barely alive causing both factions as well as other powerful factions that planted spies in their ranks to believe there was a hermit in the vicinity that surpassed them in power.
Reason being?
The 'war maiden' and the 'insect rider' were both at Core forming Realm making them pretty high into the ranks the highest in this world happens to be the realm above golden core~
Thus bringing even more trouble as countless spies will be looking for a powerful female cultivator within the area, to do one of these two things.
to either recruit the said person.
Or To eliminate the threat.
What can you expect in a world where the strongest factions will do whatever they can to preserve their status?
If William knew about this sooner, he'd be pissed since it was like dropping a rock onto his own foot!
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A reference for Cultivation ranks in this world.
Body Tempering gain 100 years to their lifespan
Qi Mastery gain 300 years to their lifespan
Core forming gain 500 years to their lifespan
Golden core gain 1000 years to their lifespan
The others will be hidden for now~