"Soap?". Mrs.Mason was not sure if she had heard correctly.
"Yes. Soap. I have a way to make soap for commoners to enjoy. It might not be as good as the ones that the upper class uses but it will smell good and be cheap." Daren replied. "So, let's finalize the deal. I have the money on me if that's fine."
"I have the land deed with me," said Mrs.Mason.
She took out a yellow piece of parchment with the details of the shop's location and the red seal that was stamped on its bottom to prove its legitimacy.
Ashia took out the land transfer agreement and both parties put a drop of their blood on it to seal the deal.
In this world, contracts are signed by both parties with a drop of their blood. There is a method to check whether the blood was taken by force or by consent.
All they had to do was take the contact to a government office where they would drop a solution on the part where the blood was. If the blood was taken without consent or dropped onto the paper without them being told beforehand, the paper would glow red.
If it was not taken by force and with the person knowing, the solution would cause no reaction at all.
The solution was made by government mages. This made it to where people could not really cheat contracts.
Daren paid the 35 gold to Mrs.Mason and took the deed. He and Mrs.Mason, both paid 1 gold each to Ashia as this was her payment as a broker and witness of the signing.
On the way to his newly acquired store, Daren pulled up the interface to look at his finances.
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Money: Human Currency
12 gold
2803 silver
47490 bronze
Other Currency (Currently Unknown)
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This drastic increase in money was since Daren had raided another thief's hideout last night. This time, there were only 10 thieves.
Collecting all the money on the thieves from last night, the night before, and all of their hidden savings that he had robbed from all the filthy and unimaginable places added up to quite a lot.
He had gotten 30 gold from over 33 thieves so it was not a bad way to stock up funds.
"I should do this until the thieves change up their locations or if they try to lay a trap for me. If they set a trap up for me though, it might be a little more fun. " is what Daren was thinking.
He really hoped he could find some fun around here. Of course, he was going to have fun running a business again but he really wanted to start setting up his organization.
Right now though, he neither had the funds nor the kind of human resources to do that.
Getting stronger himself would solve all those problems but he could not get too strong too fast as there were ways like the stone at the city gates with which people can track his progress.
He could not upgrade through the ranks until he could find a way to hide it.
As if the system was waiting for Daren to think that, it gave him what he was looking for.
Ding!
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[ Congratulations to the host for getting your first piece of personal land in this world.
The system's duty is to help the host achieve whatever goal they may wish for as long as they provide the system with the required amount of souls.
You may now set goals with which the system can help you. The system will now be ready to serve you with any answers that you require about the system. ]
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"This system really has some insane timing." Daren thought.
There was an option on the system's interface labeled as " Goal Assistance."
He entered his goal of " Hiding My Cultivation Level ".
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[ Feed the system with the souls of 100 adult humans to unlock the ability (Soul Masking). This ability will allow you to your cultivation level. You may show a lower level than what you have but cannot display a higher one. ]
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'50 souls. Can I use the souls that I already absorbed?"
[ NO. When absorbing new souls, the user must indicate to the system that they want to use them towards the goals. ]
100 souls were not easy to get in a short time and Daren did not necessarily need to get stronger yet. His current objective was to make enough money to start building his organization.
This meant that the system would need to find a way to help him in his business.
Daren entered the system and changed his goal to "Making the most Profitable Soap Business Possible".
Ding!
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[ The system has recognized that the host plans to run a scented soap business. The host's current plan involves using primitive ways of mass-producing good quality soaps that could be afforded by the public.
The system has found an ability that could be useful and is relatively achievable by the user in a short period of time.
The system feature [ Internal Factory ] can produce any product from the host's memories as long as the correct materials and sufficient energy are provided.
The user may use energy sources such as the "force " that is available in this world.
Unlock requirements for [ Internal Factory ] is most of the blood from 50 adults.
The host may use the stored blood which is currently at 25. ]
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'I knew the system should have been able to create things. It let Celina create a body and any clothing she wanted. This means I can make products similar to those in the interstellar era.'
Daren was not just thinking about cleaning products but also the planet-destroying weapons and warships that he had designed.
Daren could build armies that wielded laser guns that could melt a cultivator in one shot.
He could build an armada of countless warships as long as he could find the material to support its creation in this world.
Daren knew that he was not capable of such things just yet but the possibility was just mind-boggling.
There was also no way he was actually going to mass produce any interstellar technologies as people would probably fight wars over it.
Daren also did not want to ruin the power balance in this world so mass-producing weapons that could just straight up melt or destroy a cultivator was also a no-go.
But there definitely was no problem for Daren to make them for himself.
As Daren was exploring the possibilities of this ability and prepping himself for obtaining the remaining 25 bodies required for it, he arrived at his new property.
It was time to plan some renovations.