You're joking right?" Felix couldn't help but exclaim in disbelief.
"I wish." She removed the bedsheets, exposing her cute furry pajamas while speaking with a serious tone, "What you saw wasn't in your imagination but a tiny piece of Jörmungandr's consciousness waking up for a split second before returning to sleep!" She sighed, "And if you keep integrating and adding more of his essence into your body, he will wake up for real and none of us is going to like the outcome of that happening."
"What do you mean?" Felix clasped his hands on his head as he said, "I understand that I am nothing but dirt in front of such a being, but you are one of the superior beings just like him." He asked while looking deeply into her eyes, "So why are you worried about him waking up?"
"Of course, I will be worried!" She yelled, "If he wakes up, he will either destroy your soul, killing me with you, or be a nice beast and start living with me in this tiny consciousness!" She sulked, "None of those options are good for me!"
Nice beast?
Felix shook his head at such a farfetched idea. He was more inclined into believing that the Jörmungandr wasn't going to let go of such a free method of revival.
This meant, he would need to kill them both as there was no way he would prefer sealing himself inside Felix's consciousness with the whiny Asna.
"What now?" He passed his hand through his hair with a thoughtful expression, "Am I supposed to halt my integration?"
"Not really." Asna shook her head as she clarified, "I believe that the consciousness will truly wake up only after you reach 98% to 99% in your integration." She stretched her arms above her head while yawning, "So, you can carry on your integration like normal. Just stop at 96% or 97% until we think of a solution."
"That's some good news at least." Felix sighed in relief.
"Oh now that I think about it." She reminded him, "Don't integrate more than 2% at each time. I think that the reason you feel a headache after each integration is due to the Jörmungandr's attempts to keep his consciousness up for as long as possible before sleeping again." She explained, "Your mental strength is too weak to handle his oppression pressure."
"No wonder!" Felix smiled wryly.
He understood that he and Asna might have one soul, but their social status was further apart by light-years. This meant the Jörmungandr's oppression had zero effect on Asna.
However, for him, just a single thought, word, or a gaze with intention of harm, was enough to seal his fate.
Asna had no way to help him out defend this oppression feeling as it was aimed at his consciousness, not at their soul.
If he wanted to avoid all of this together, he had to start integrating with 2% per 2%, either from two days to two days or three to three. It all depended on his choice.
"Sigh, I should have known that integrating with a primogenitor isn't going to end well." Felix sighed while shaking his head.
Obtaining full manipulation of the poison element? He knew that it was too good to be true.
However, he actually never had a chance to think deeply about it since Asna gave him only a couple of seconds to make a decision during his awakening.
She told him the benefits of awakening with this bloodline and the negatives which she knew about, like the fact he needed to hunt for its essence.
Only now, did the real dangers of awakening with a primogenitor bloodline resurfaced. At this point, he didn't know if there were still more or not.
"Thank you, get some rest, you worked really hard today."
Unbothered by his sarcastic tone, Asna flipped him the finger while closing her eyes, returning to her sleep.
Felix chuckled and left his consciousness.
....
Four hours later...
Felix finished his daily team practice routine and now he was taking a quick shower at the end of the hallway's bathroom.
After a while, Felix finished showering and was returning to his room, wearing only a towel, which was covering his nether region to his knees.
"Oh my, he is at it again."
"If he didn't already have a girlfriend, I would have already jumped on him."
"Shush, he will hear you."
The girls, who saw him walking like that in the hallway, kept giggling and gossiping with flushed cheeks.
Well, their eagerness to hit it off with Felix wasn't out of nowhere as he was currently being coined on the internet as the new Mr. Perfect, robbing Adam of his title.
But, this teenager's nuisance just made Felix fed up and use a girlfriend excuse as a shield.
After seeing that he was almost near them, they offered him the most beautiful smile they could muster, hoping to attract his attention.
Unfortunately for them, Felix had his head buried in a hologram, showing the current prices of sand element stones in the public markets.
Of course, they couldn't see the hologram, and that made them a bit upset, thinking that he was ignoring them.
But did Felix gave a shit? Nope!
Slam!
Felix closed the door of his room behind him and went to the closet. After getting dressed, he laid on the bed wearing pajamas and continued to browse the prices of the sand element stones, from medium-grade to peak-grade.
// Medium-grade: 1000 SC in the Alexander Kingdom/ 2000 SC+ everywhere else.
High-grade: 10000 SC in the Alexander Kingdom/30000 SC+ everywhere else.
Peak-grade: 40000 SC in the Alexander Kingdom/120000 SC+ everywhere else. //
After seeing that the prices weren't really that different from the poison stones, which he bought before, he smiled bitterly.
He knew that to reach a 100% affinity rating from 1%, it was going to take a while plus a huge amount of high-grade stones.
Felix didn't even consider using peak-grade stones as they were extremely hard to get in public markets.
They only get circulated between the upper echelon or inside auctions, getting sold by bulks. The only accessible way to buy them for him currently was using game points or a wish.
That being said, Felix had no plans on wasting either of these two on merely energy stones.
"Let's see how many stones will I need." Felix created two side-holograms, one was displaying the number of poison stones he needed to reach 100% from 59%, and the other showing the number of coins spent in the process.
After doing a quick calculation, he found out that he needed 12,500 high-grade stones to reach 100% from 1%!
This result was considering the fact that Asna took half of the purified energy from his first affinity enhancement.
If he bought each stone using the lowest price tag, he would need a total of 125 million SC. Sadly, Felix wasn't optimistic about believing that he would get even 3000 stones with that price. Thus, the total should at least triple.
"I can't be roaming kingdoms and getting spit at again, I need to invest in a mining company." Felix rested his chin on his hand, deep in thought on which mining company did it strike it rich in the future by finding rare minerals or high concentrated energy mines.
Unlike his investment in movies and series, which he clearly remembered extremely well due to him being a cinema lover, the mining industry on the other hand, wasn't really part of his interest in his previous life.
After all, there was an infinite amount of news trending on daily basis just in the Mariana Empire from all industries.
Unless Felix narrowed his daily news intake to the mining industry only, he could forget about understanding what was going on in their world.
Unfortunately, Felix's daily news was centered mainly on the SG both in his previous life and now.
His lack of knowledge was biting him now in the ass, as no matter how deep he dug within his memories he remembered not a single mining company name.
Though he clearly understood that his memory was actually shit, and even if he probably saw some news, which went trending empire-wide about the mining industry, he wouldn't be able to recall it no matter how hard he tried.
That being said, Felix had a super memory search engine living in his consciousness that could solve this problem.
'Asna can yo...forget it.' Felix shook his head and tucked himself in the bedsheets.
He wanted to sound his request, but he didn't want to ruin her sleep two times in a row as he knew that if he went and did so, she would act spitefully and ignore his request.
'Queen, please Log me in.'
...
10 minutes later, inside Fuzzia Stones Shop, Felix was sitting on a comfy armchair while drinking a cup of coffee, waiting patiently for Jadie, the shop owner to finish his business deal with another customer.
Thankfully, he wasn't left waiting for long as that customer shook Jadie's hand and left through the door.
After seeing that Jadie was approaching him, Felix stood from his seat and extended his hand forward with a polite smile.
"Long time no see, brother Felix." Delighted, Jadie straightaway went for a hug instead of shaking Felix's hand.
To treat Felix this friendly, he must have gotten the shapeshifter penis from Looby's shop. For a man with problems down there to get the shapeshifter penis was the greatest wish he could ever ask for.
After a quick hug, Jadie let go of Felix and requested, "How can I serve you, brother Felix." He smiled confidently, "Just say the word and it shall be achieved."
"I need 12,500 high-grade sand stones, when do I take them?" Felix asked while blinking his eyes innocently.
"You said 1250 stones right?" Jadie drew closer to Felix as he asked with a tingle of disbelief.
"Nope, 12.500, and I need them as fast as possible." Felix coughed with shifty eyes, "I believe getting them won't be that hard for you with your wide network."
"Brother Felix, stop jesting." Troubled, Jadie had creases on his forehead as he leaned back on his chair. "I don't know why you need such a high amount again and I honestly would rather not ask. However, I can't give you all that amount at once and you know it already." He smiled wryly, "We discussed it before."
"Well, you told me to ask what I need." Felix shrugged his shoulders, "That's what I did."
Felix knew that Jadie wasn't going to sell him that amount even if he somehow managed to secure it.
Jadie's shop was most of the time empty wasn't because he didn't have clients, but in fact, he had hundreds upon hundreds all with business contracts.
Some signed a contract entailing that Jadie had to deliver 100 high-grade stones each month, while some were signing 10 or 500 per three months. All it mattered was that the limit was 1000 stones per 6 months.
This meant, that Jadie's stone stock would never be enough to give each customer what he asked for.
Felix was well aware of this, but he couldn't help but want to tease him a bit as he was always overly excited whenever he saw him.
"1000 is not doing anything for me." Felix took a small sip, "Can you recommend me to one of your mining companies?"
"Brother Felix, I hope you understand that those companies never deal directly with customers." Jadie informed him with good intentions, "You will just waste your time trying to convince them into selling you what you seek."
"I am planning on investing in one of them, but I'm not really that familiar with the elemental stones mining industry." Felix said, very serious.
"I see, may I know which elements do you require the most?" Jadie asked.
"Poison and sand." Felix replied.
Jadie nodded his head and started tapping on his bracelet. In a moment, a hologram displaying five names was shown to Felix.
"Those are the companies best known for mining stones for those two elements in the Kingdom." Jadie pointed at the one in the middle and suggested, "Do consider investing in this company, as I own some shares in, and so far it has been rising in a steady manner."
"I appreciate the recommendations." Pleased, Felix smiled while pointing his bracelet at the list, wanting to copy it.
"It's nothing." Jadie waved his hand dismissively while asking, "Are you planning on buying only the 1k high-grade stones, or should I throw in medium-grade as well?"
"Give me both." Felix answered.
Medium-grade might not help much in increasing his affinity but at this point, Felix would buy anything related to sand element to hasten the affinity enhancement.
"Please sign this." Jadie sent him a standard contract, which Felix signed after reading it carefully.
After the payment was wired and the serial codes were given, Felix stood up and extended his hand with a polite smile, "I will show myself out."
"You are always welcome." Jadie smiled and let go of his hand.
5 hours later...
Felix was back in his Androxa house after he spent the last five hours jumping from a shop to a shop and from a city to a city, securing whatever sand stones he saw insight.
He also bought poison stones to be purified by Asna and used as a backup energy source. He wasn't a retard to use sand stones for that purpose.
As for the five companies? He already gave a call to Mr. Igris, his investment manager, and gave him a mission to investigate those companies first before buying shares of the best one.
He wired him 200 million SC as capital and warned him that he expects to have at least 4% of shares.
This left Felix with 500 million SC in his bank account.
Felix didn't want to go full ham on shares, as he wasn't relying on his memories but on Jadie's recommendation. Thus, he didn't know if they would go up or not.
Plus, Felix was simply aiming to get priority on high-grade sand stones by being a shareholder.
After he finished buying the amount needed, he would put his shares back on sale with the same pricing. Just like this, he wouldn't be putting his coins in a company with an uncertain future. Though, he would expect a quite delay before his coins get back to him.
The only reason he wasn't investing in other big-league companies that had their stocks surge to the roof in his previous life was due to the fact his capital and expenses were always holding him back.
After all, when compared to movies or series, which get released pretty quickly, giving Felix his returns within a couple of months, the companies' stocks, were going to raise only after creating an astonishing product, found a mineral-rich planet, or had in general an incident that made their stocks smash through the roofs.
Those incidents weren't instantaneously, as the earliest one that was going to happen for a company, which Felix had his eyes on for a while, was in the next year or so.
Felix didn't have enough capital to support him, don't even mention putting hundreds of millions in stocks, that were going to raise only a year later.
That being said, after the series ]My Love Rival is Me[ gets aired, making him earn billions of profit, he would start putting some of his capital on those stocks and leave them be until they bore fruits.
...
After Felix took a shower, he sat in his usual spot in the living room.
He took a deep breath and opened his profile interface. Immediately after, he scrolled down and clicked on a ]new game[.
The two-month cooldown had already ended 7 days before.
Now that Felix was expecting the energy stones to reach him in three days, he decided to roll the game wheal now, as there were still 5 days of preparation before the game start.
A moment later, he was transferred to a web page, where the same green start button was at.
"Maybe battle format this time? Just maybe?" He murmured to himself while pressing the button.
Click!
The moment he pressed the button, the same color wheel with tens of formats started to span rapidly before him. He left spinning for three seconds before ordering it to stop.
'Ting, Ting, Ting!
Needle sound continued to resound in the living room, as it kept passing one format by the other until it completely froze on a format.
"FINALLY!" The moment Felix saw the format, he could help but shout with his fists clenched tightly.
]Congratulation on picking Battle Format![
As they say third time's a charm. Though, Felix was bound to land on the battle format sooner or later as its one of the formats with the most games.
With an eager expression, Felix pressed the 2nd green button, making the wheel with hundreds upon hundreds of games to spin again.
A second later, he paused it and start focusing on the needle that was slowing down until it was stopped at a golden-colored game.
Ti-ring!
]Congratilation on picking The King of The Island Game![
"Not bad!" Felix grinned widely in delight, as he played this game before in his previous life. Well, obviously he didn't win it, but still, he had some experience playing it.
Without further ado, he looked to his right and started reading the hologram details of the game.
//
Game Format: Battles.
Game Name: King of The Island
Participants Number: 97 (Still increasing)
The integration allowed: From lesser purity to peak stage 1 of replacement.
Ranks allowed: silver and bronze ( This is a silver game)
Maze map: Random Virtual Generated Map.
Surprise Addition: Yes
Prizes Pool: High-grade stones, Peak-grade stones, Instant Recovery Potion, Vial of Blank Minds, Potion of Phantoms...Scourge Shard.
Rules of the game:
1) Players get dropped randomly on one medium-sized island.
2) Creating Alliances is allowed.
3) A Golden Crown appears on top of one random player's head after the first 5 minutes of the game.
4) The Crown's holder location gets transmitted every 15 minutes.
5) The transmission lasts for 5 minutes before disappearing.
6) The game duration is two hours.
7) The Crown floats in the air after the original holder dies.
8) The first-ever holder of the Crown is allowed to throw it. (The rest can not throw the Crown after picking it up.)
9) To pick the Crown, you need to touch it for 5 seconds straight.
10) Getting hold of the Crown results in immediate small distance teleportation.
11) Game points can be earned from eliminations and the duration of holding the Crown.
12) The last player with Crown after the duration passes, wins the game.
For more information please open your SG profile Interface.
Good luck to all participants.//
"Everything is the same, except for the number of players." Felix rested his chin on his hand as he thought of the time he played this game.
The numbers of players were fewer than this, as he played it when he was in gold rank. All he remembered was that it was one of the wildest and hellish experiences he ever had.
The moment a player gets hold of the Crown, he will get collapsed at by tens of players coming from all sides of the island. And It was impossible to hide in some corner as the location transmission was implemented to stop that.
The fact that the Crown could only be dropped after killing the original holder just made the game deadlier for the players.
Do you want to win? Just hold the Crown until the duration passes. Simple as that.
However, Felix still remembered that no one actually dared to touch the Crown in the first hour or so. Even the first holder threw it the instant he got it like he was throwing a hot potato.
This totally made sense as no one was that retarded to make themselves a target for a hundred players during the first minutes of the game.
That being said, the SGA put a quite worthy incentive to tempt the players into holding the Crown during the first minutes.
That was making the Crown holder get 500 GP every ten minutes that the Crown remains in his possession!
Felix didn't know if the amount was going to remain the same or change in this game. The only way to find out was by asking in the Game Hall.
As for the hidden addition? Felix already knew what was about to be added, as he experienced it first hand in his game.
After rereading all of the rules again, Felix waved the Wheel and the game details from his face. He then requested from the Queen to search online for his game.
A second later, a list that had a whopping 10 ]King of The Island[ games was displayed before him.
Felix ignored the games, which were played in other human empires, and focused on the Mariana empire's games.
Soon, he found the one he was at and clicked it, making it display all of its public details. Just like always, Felix went straight for the players' list.
//Participants List:
] Farforce_5844: Silver Rank, Low-Tier Wins 6 / Losses 16. (For more details click on the name)
]Alphatech_1497: Silver Rank, Mid-Tier, Wins 5 / Losses 10. (For...)
]...
] Clusterfire_7934: Silver Rank, Mid-Tier, Wins 7 / Losses 13. (For...)
] Unpaid Landlord_6996: Bronze Rank, Peak-Tier, Wins 2 / Losses 0. (For...)
]...
] Biohunter_6687: Silver Rank, Peak-Tier, Wins 9 / Losses 7 (For...)
] Grimmind_10222: Silver Rank low Tier, wins 6 / losses 17. (For...) //
After scrolling to the bottom of the list, Felix found out that he was the only bronze player in the entire list!
"Why most of them have three times losses than wins?" Asna asked with a playful look.
"Isn't it obvious?" Felix clarified with a hint of sympathy in his voice, "They were the losers, add ons, who wins games only if by luck or getting their some of their favorite formats."
"Oh? Just like you." She chuckled at his trembling lips, "You lost at least 15 games until you finally made it into gold rank."
Felix didn't even lash at her, as it was his fault for falling in such an obvious attempt of teasing. It was clear that she read his memories and knew beforehand, but asked to make fun of his garbage performance in his past life.
Though, mentioning so brought him some unpleasant memories, like the fact he had to pause his integration in peak 1st stage of replacement until he got out of silver.
The Supremacy Games wasn't merciful at all to losers like him, as it set a specific range of strength between ranks that couldn't be broken.
For example, the integration allowed in bronze to silver was from lesser purity to peak 1st stage of replacement.
This meant the players in silver rank, who broke through the 2nd stage of the replacement would not be allowed to play in the platform anymore as their strength outclassed their rank.
The platform could add specific silver games, where those with 2nd stage or replacement could compete in. But why would they do so?
They were trying their best to minimize the number of players in this overcrowded platform. And by being proactive in keeping those losers, it would defy what they were seeking.
Obviously, the players didn't want to be kicked out of the platform, as it meant, heading to the real universe to do clan missions, hunting beasts, and such for gathering their resources.
They would rather halt their integration than ending up with such a fate.
Nevertheless, there was a silver lining about this. As the more games one plays, the more experience he gathers, making him enhance his chances of gaining victory.
As long as they continue to survive and grid in the games, they would definitely get out of their rank at some point.
The same happened to Felix in his previous life, as he had his integration halted in peak 1st stage of rep for at least three years until he finally made it out of silver rank.
That being said, everything had an opposite, just like there were losers in the games, having a trash 30% win ratio, there were winners, who had either a 50% win ratio or above.
Solar Mist, Spirit Visage, Hound Stench, and the rest of the hardcore players in the shuffle maze were those winners.
Felix knew that he had to watch out for players like them in the upcoming game. Thus, he swiftly started scouting the players with the highest win ratio, spending hours marking the players' names and their abilities in his mind.
After he was done, he went to the garage and took his car out, driving towards the training center.
He wasn't planning on wasting those five days without practicing strategies and tricks to win the game.
He was aiming higher than just winning the game!