What's a man gotta do to have some peace and quiet!
Not even a week after the incident with the two cultivators, there was a sudden influx of people coming and going into this part of the city that mostly had regular people living in the area.
There were some odd changes as well!
some neighbors had their homes bought at extravagant prices, all sorts of beautiful women moved into the area, more 'policewomen' patrolling this sector, with one more problem on top of that.
William forgot to change the advertisement to display that his shop would be closed for some time.
Now he has a long line of hungry customers outside of his shop!
Hungry for his food and possible something else~
He's been busy with other important stuff, like increasing his spells, increasing the mana cap to as high as it can get, getting Abel, his minion, to fully strengthen her equipment before moving to the next stage.
There were two additional tabs that popped up this time around.
Minion lab which allowed him to manually 'upgrade' a specific trait of Abel to increase one of the following at a time, for now.
Adventure exp: to improve the overall learning rate of Abel in battle.
Drop chance: Higher the level the more items can be collected in one fight to better equip the minion sooner.
Monster rarity: higher the level the more chances of coming across a monster that drop better quality gear!
Respawn: decreases the time needed for the minion to recovery from any injuries to resume its hunting adventure sooner.
Attack: increases the damage output of any attack delivered.
Defense: decreases all received damage.
Critical Damage: increased maximum critical damage.
Speed: Increases the speed of all actions when in battle.
While that was what it told him on the description, William knew better than to just take its word for it.
The additional tab was something that the game didn't have in the original.
Item refining.
But the annoying part about was that it didn't give him any other explanation other than this.
Choose what item to refine.
This made the man unsure as to what to do other than make an attempt to refine his bed.
The result made him think of one thing.
Why didn't he have such a thing sooner!?
His bed became a pseudo magic tool and not only did it improve his comfortability but also removed anything that was considered a debuff and it had a self-cleaning option with it~.
He wanted to use it on more stuff but it had a week-long cooldown making William unable to truly test what it was capable of!
What if it was used on clothes? or food? or even on a pocket p- *ahem* other essential items?
How much will it make his life even better?
But now, William had to worry about the women here.
This was the third day, of him dealing with so many customers that would cultivate in his shop until closing time.
At first, many of his patrons were tired and bored from trying to find their target, but when they entered his shop that was when the cultivators noticed the changes in the air, then when some of them who had grave or hidden injuries ate the meals that William provided, their arrogant demeanor quickly changed to something that made the man's skin crawl!
He felt like a fresh piece of steak dropped in the middle of a pack of wolves!
They all looked at him so dangerously, making the man gulp and reluctant to leave his kitchen, thus he had them pick up their meals to his surprise they were more than happy to do so.
Since they would often try to have a one on one talk with him!
He tried taking his time cooking, messing up the orders, or even 'forget' to make their food, yet none of them cared, despite his efforts to make them want to leave and not come back!
Don't bother mentioning anything about him sullying their food as that was blasphemous for any honest cook!
Such efforts were fruitless due to the shop being akin to a large Qi gathering array so they still paid for the food, left some large tips, and a bunch of calling cards...
If he wanted some company at night.
The latter he burned, due to the things that William learned of what many cultivators did regardless of what side they were on.
Lifeforce stealing, mind-breaking rituals, spirit snatching, and many more disturbing things if he was too weak and not careful of who he slept with!
Since the man burned the cards and ignored their advances, a lot of the girls reacted in different manners, some of them responded to his rejection in ways that were better left unsaid.
There were even those that wanted to buy the place from William and with him included as the bonus, which he quickly rejected for obvious reasons.
Some tried attempting to rape him, thankfully the house defenses prevented that giving him mixed feelings about this.
While some went as far as threatening him to surrender the place and himself over to them, the local law enforcers that were oddly more abundant than usual in this location made quick work of the troublemakers forcing him to close off a portion of the shop to 'repair' the damage done.
It wasn't really necessary but he was trying to lessen the number of women that entered his shop at a time, as his self-control was nearing its limit due to resisting charming spells, the more skin they showed off to get his attention, and the sexual innuendos they were doing with each other and the food he gave them.
THERE IS A LIMIT TO WHAT A REGULAR STRAIGHT MAN CAN RESIST!
But due to his fear of the consequences of what will happen to him should he try the forbidden fruit, helped the man keep control although his demons also played a big role in this problem due to how much they were enjoying his reaction!
Punishing the little vixens was just adding fuel to the fire when they started getting off of the punishments he gave them!
*sigh* While these cultivators may have sexualized themselves greatly to gain his favor, you must never forget that they did this to rise in power when they don't have any other way to growing anymore.
However, Thanks to the numerous powerhouses around and many of the factions trying not to get on the bad side of the person they were looking for.
All under the table actions towards him were reduced to the bare minimum and it was the same for his shop during the daytime, at least, until nighttime came along it was a slaughter fest due to how many of them having some kind of random grudge towards whatever faction that caused it.
Behind the scenes, Zhao Mei had been pulling some strings, and with the wealth, her family had and the manpower to support it, she was able to have William's area to be protected, with the help of other more peaceful factions that enjoyed the benefits of his shop and elixir-like food!
She found him first, and in this woman's mind.
He was her treasure!
No one else can have him!
A good number of the greater factions had an unwritten agreement for one significant reason.
The food he made, made their cultivation stir especially those who had been stagnant with their realm.
Was he possibly an alchemist?
An expert chef that could make food into miracle medicine?
Or a hidden expert?
or serving under someone that was an expert?
Regardless of which one it was, they all looked at him like hungry predators to rise to the next realm there was almost nothing that they wouldn't do other than killing their own kin, at least, for the 'righteous' cultivators.
While the man that was the cause of all this was silently cursing as a strange rhythmic sound was heard as William remained in the bathroom to help clear his mind.
You can't really blame him for this, imagine you got tens of hot women that were even more gorgeous than supermodels trying to get into your pants, yet you cannot touch them due to the chance of dying a very horrible death or some other sick fate awaited should you cross the line!
In this world, there is a lot of eye candy, however, you can be compared to a random insect that anyone can step on and you can do nothing about it!