The next day, Ben had visited the storehouse and bought it. The seller was quite shocked to see a teenager buy a storehouse. Rich kids would normally buy cars and wear the most expensive clothes, but not Ben.
After the seller went away, Ben ordered everything he wanted. It was the first time in his life that he had so much fun buying things. He even bought a smart-tv as he wanted to practice martial-arts online. He had to pay the subscription for each martial art he wanted to learn.
A person like Ben, who in his life always looked at the prices of each food or object he bought, was now spending millions without feeling remorse.
As he didn't have anything to do, he played on his phone a game of chess.
2 hours later a truck stopped at the parking area.
While the sauna was assembled in a few hours, people came to build the dead room.
The entire day, Ben accepted the orders and paid the worker.
At 6 pm, Ben was finally alone. He closed the storehouse and went back home.
Arriving home, his family seemed agitated and they informed Ben that Mount Etna erupted.
The news didn't stop reporting about the situation in Italy.
„Mount Etna makes thousand of people evacuate their houses."
„The active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily..."
„Big tourist attraction destroys millions of..."
„Researchers warn of ash falls over North Africa or Europe..."
„How does Europe help Italie in this crisis?"
Ben wasn't worried, having just a lower temperature for the next years wasn't a big deal. Compared to Italy and Africa, Europe should be happy about their luck.
After eating dinner, Ben studied the genetic potions in the empire market. He didn't plan to buy any but was still curious about their mixture.
And then he saw ...
´AND-189! Could it be the real one? I have no idea. The name is the same. How ironic that I find such a priceless potion after such a nice day. In the future, they were genetic potions, which could awaken certain abilities also named special skills. They didn't guarantee to awake a skill, but it was still in great demand resulting in high prices. The competition was high but most potions were not effective and just scams. But AND-189 could almost guarantee after multiple intakes to awaken the special skill vision of slow motion. This is an op skill to see everything in slow motion for a few seconds. With higher stats, the skill could be used better and longer. The price at its peak was 17 thousand for each flacon. Truly overpriced. Now he sells it at 132€ for 10 flacons.
It couldn't be a not yet perfected recept? He wouldn't sell such a product, right? No risk no fun! If it isn't perfect yet, then I can find somebody to do it.´
Ben ordered 100 flacons of AND-189 as he was afraid that it could be the last time to have this opportunity.
„If the flacons worked as fast as last time, then 23 flacons should be enough for me." Ben murmured to himself. The black market was truly the best trade for illegal or genetic stuff.
...
In the following 7 days, Ben trained intensively in his storehouse.
On the 10th of January, school continued again.
Every student talked about their holidays, Christmas, New Year, and the eruption of Mount Etna. Only Ben didn't talk about these topics. Ben was actually suffering from having sore muscles and depressed because he still didn't receive AND-189 flacons.
The only good news is that he sold all his 388851 stocks and invested the 211 million in Neurolink. Neurolink was completely forgotten in the last 5 years, but in the coming weeks, Elon Musk will do a press conference and advertise his perfect chip.
´Elon Musk always hated the public stock market, but due to a shortage of funds, he had to sell 40% of Neurolink. This was 5 years from now, the stocks were bought high, but in these last 5 years, the value decreased slowly. The value of his 1 million stocks is now only at 242€.
The bid order I made was for 242,5 till the end of January.
With 211 million I can buy 870 103 stocks. I never saw the highest value as Elon Musk bought the shares back cheaply after a possible bankrupt was discussed in the news.
But now that I own 87% of the volume, he won't be able to cheat the public. Can't wait until that day! Will it triple or even quadruple?´
After school, Ben arrived home. Just when he entered the house, he saw a black packet.
He didn't think that the packet would arrive while he was in school. If a family member opened the packet, he would see the tubes as drugs. This wouldn't have ended well with him.
„Oh, hello Ben, how was school today?" Asked his sister.
„Very good. How was your day?" Ben asked. He began to sweat.
´Just don't act strange. Nothing will happen. After her answer, just take the packet to your room.´
„Today, a lot of lessons fell out. That's why I am here so early. So it was your packet?" Emma asked surprised.
„Yeah. Thank you for taking it in. I will go into my room." Ben answered. He then took the packet and climbed the stairway up.
„Isn't it strange to be black?" Asked with a slight frown.
„Not in the least. Many brands pack their clothes in black." Ben lied with a bored voice.
Emma was also thinking that the man, who brought the packet, seemed strange, but she couldn't explain why, so she pushed it to the back of her mind.
Finally in his room, Ben opened the packet delicately. 100 flacons were bound together.
Ben drunk one of them without worrying about the side effects and laid on his bed
One minute later, Ben felt like he moved slower. His every move was like under a slow-motion effect and shortly after, he fainted on his bed.
When Ben was back to consciousness, it was almost time for dinner. His eyes felt irritated and he had a headache. He hid the flacons in his drawer and put a big book on the flacons. It may not be 100% safe, but in this place, my mom would never look.
If he wanted to awake the skill, he had to take the flacon each day until he awakes the special skill.
....
22 days later on his bed, Ben took his 23rd flacon of AND-189 and after having again this trip in slow motion, Ben didn't faint like the first time.
´This should be it, right? My body shouldn't have a new limit to awaken this skill. Argh. I hate these headaches...´
Open Skill list.´
Knowledge Skills:
-Science
-Parkour
-Survival
Special Skills:
-HSAM (highly superior autobiographical memory)
-Vision of slow motion
´Finally! It was one of my most used special Skills. It won't be long before I become strong again. With the activation of vision of slow motion, I can perfectly dodge attacks. Guns would be too difficult to dodge for now. But it won't take long before I can dodge at least one bullet. It is again a long time since I looked at my stats. Should I wait or should I look? I have to look at my progress to know if I train effectively. Hopefully, no stat decreased. I mean agility may have been neglected a bit. Status open.´
<0/10>
´Agility really decreased. At least Agility and Strength are the same numbers. To increase my Agility I should begin my ball dodging training with the 8 ball thrower. My intelligence should increase faster if I begin learning computer science. I will go to the library tomorrow.´
...
In the following days, Ben positioned his ball machines in a corner of the storehouse. He made a circle between all machines, the ball trajectories were concentrated on that circle.
He began with only two ball throwers with a low ball rate and speed.
He increased the difficulty slowly, but one could see how Ben struggled to not being hit by the balls.
Without Groin guard, which he bought after the first training, he would have become infertile without doubt.