As the three make their way to the restaurant, Merck's carriage also arrived at the village. The carriage stopped at a restaurant to have some dinner. As Merck enter the restaurant, he order foods and also gather some information for any recent happenings in the village. "hmm… there was a scarce is beast meat." He furrowed his brows. "shadows, investigate immediately on how scarce the meat is. Also investigate the Paule family if there is any movement." The shadows immediately disappear as the dishes arrived at his table.
At the same time, the three arrived the restaurant, Alexander notice Merck and raises his brow. "he… the old man is already here." He muttered. Merck also notice his gaze so he called him out "Hey kid! Your still here? Hahaha... Come, come! Eat with me!" as he invites Alexander, the latter nodded and brought the kids. "u-uncle Merck good evening!" greeted by Lulu. Merck only laugh and patted her head "hehe…" Lulu was smiling and sat beside Merck. Kratos also sat beside Lulu and Alexander sat opposite of the three. The four ate to their hearts content. The two kids were happy munching down the food, while Alexander and Merck is enjoying their own drink.
Then Alexander took out a gold coin and toss it to Merck. "we're even." He nonchalantly remarked. Merck nodded and continue to drink. After eating, they decided to go home. Another week has passed and during these day, he only hunt in the forest for easy money and the appraisal of the egg-like item has also been appraised. "Ding! Appraisal conplete! 'Chrono Egg' – an item said to be one of the artifact forge by the god of forging and a gift to the goddess of time 'Sekunde'. This item can make the time flow slow or faster depending on the user's preference.(note: this item can only be used once every 6 months as it will take another half a year for it to absorb enough elemental energy.)"
As Alexander read the description of the egg, Alexander jaw dropped "holy sh*t! This item is too over power! It's like cheating!" He can't helped himself but to curse. He sighed "why am I so lucky? This not right, I seemed to be full of luck until recently. Did I do a great deed in my past lives to deserve this type of luck?" as he questioned he life, another voice rang in his mind "host, the system highly recommend to integrate the egg in the secret land to upgrade it's time flow. Shall we go ahead and proceed?" Alexander agreed with no hesitations as with his past experience with the system, it only wants what's good for him. "initializing integration of the Chrono-egg… initializing failed… the system needs to be upgraded before the integration." When Alexander heard the last part, he was dumbfounded. "It seems that I really need to take that mission." Alexander open the mission board panel and take 'Mission 5'. "Ding! You only have 1 week to complete this mission. Would you like to proceed?" Alexander agreed as he had no choice.
After accepting the mission, he also take the hunting mission and go to the forest for another easy money. After hunting it was already time for dinner and before going back, he visited the secret land first as this will be the appointed day of the meat sale. "welcome back host! Here's the current report of our gourmet beast farm." He handed the report papers to Alexander. "After 2 months (2 weeks outside) of herding, our gourmet beast population is skyrocketed to 800 beast. 500 of those beast are wild beast, 250 of them has reached yellow ranked and 50 of them has reached blue ranked." As he listen to the report, Alexander is nodding calmly and satisfied with it. "for the meat product, after controlling the current population, we have harvested a lot. As of now, we have 10 tons of wild beast meat and 2 tons of elemental beast meat. As for the blue ranked beast, we refrained of harvesting them for now."
When Alexander heard the amount of meat they harvested, he fall down to his seat. "ca-can you repeat that?" he can't believe on what he heard. "we currently have 10 tons of wild beast meat and 2 tons of elemental beast meat." The old man repeated the report and Alexander made a big gulp and pick up the tea cup shakily to calm himself. The old man just nonchalantly transfer all the meat into his storage ring and bid him farewell.
As the old man disappear, Alexander is still in the house, sitting while sipping tea to calm his nerves. He was still dumbfounded whenever he checks his storage ring. "damn! Isn't it too easy to make money?" he sighed and exit the house and the secret land.
As he exit the secret land, he immediately went to the restaurant to meet up with Bob. Upon arriving, he was greeted by the waiter. He was informed that Bob is currently engage with another appointment hence he decided to order a couple of dishes and a wine to wait. After waiting for a few hours, he was invited by waiter and lead him to Bob's office. "good evening Mr. Alexander! Please take a sit." Bob greeted then he turn to the person beside him "let me introduce you, this is the current royal chef of the Golden Valley Kingdom Chef Gordon. Chef Gordon, this is the lad that I talked to you about, Mr. Alexander." The both of them greeted one another by a nod.
"So Mr. Alexander, how many meat are we gonna sell today?" Bob asked. Alexander picked up a cup of tea and took a sip "how much are you prepared to buy?" he calmly answered Bob. Bob ponders for a bit and as he was about to say anything, Gordon interrupt "as much as you have Mr. Alexander. Money is not a problem." He confidently answered. Alexander stared at him for a few minutes then brought down his cup of tea. "10 tons of wild beast meat." He nonchalantly answered. Bob and Gordon was taken aback. "ca-can you repeat that?" Bob asked shakily. Alexander sneered "10 tons of wild beast meat. How about it? Can you purchase all of it?" "Ridiculous!!! Even the most famous beast hunter cannot hunt that much of meat!!" Chef Gordon burst in anger. Alexander only snorted "hmhp! If you are going to be like that old man then don't buy! I am not forcing you to buy 10 tons of meat." Gordon was seething in anger "how dare you!! I am a royal chef at the golden valley kingdom!! I will report this to majesty and have you imprison!"
Alexander stand up and leak a bit of killing aura. "I am thankful for your business Mr. Bob for the past week I hope you forgive me to cancel our cooperation right now." Then he took out 4 cloth sacks "there's a total of a hundred kilograms of meat here. Just take it as a token of my apology for breaching our cooperation. Good bye." Alexander take his leave and Gordon snorted arrogantly. Bob was only dumbfounded with what happen and unable to react immediately and he can only smile bitterly.
As Alexander exit the establishment, he decided to go home and talk to Merck. As he arrive home. He immediately go to Merck's room. As he knock on the door, Merck invites him in. "what is it now kid." "what's the nearest kingdom here beside the golden valley kingdom?" Alexander asked. Merck was confused with his question but still answered "beside the Golden Valley of the west, the nearest one would be the Snow Mountain Kingdom of the north. It will only take 4-6 days of travel if you can hire a blue ranked beast mount and around a week and half if it's a yellow ranked mount." Alexander nodded and excuse himself.
"it's decided then. Snow Mountain Kingdom it is. Should I also bring the kids?" he muttered to himself and return to his room and call it a day.