Lucio looked at the different things that came out from his inventory and threw them back inside as the bones really smelled.
Instead, he looked at the interface which showed him the information he needed.
[Inventory]
Barrel of Mind Booster Tea (1)
Bag of Animal Bones (1)
Small Bag of Jerky – 1 kg (20)
Green snake plant stems (Bundle form – 50 stems) (20)
Cotton Cloth Roll (1mx10m) (20)
From the stink that was emitted by the bones, Lucio understood that the inventory simply stored items and didn't stop the flow of time for the items.
Lucio then checked his stats before deciding to go to sleep
[
Name: Samael
Age: 14
Title: Son of a prostitute
Job: None
Stats
Strength: 0.8 (Conversion ratio= 1:1000 EP)
Agility: 0.8 (Conversion ratio= 1:2000 EP)
Stamina: 1.2 (Conversion ratio= 1:1000 EP)
Vitality: 1.1 (Conversion ratio= 1:1000 EP)
Senses: 2.3 (Conversion ratio= 1:2000 EP)
Magic: 0.3 (Conversion ratio= 1:10000 EP)
Experience points: 169
(Exp points can be converted to stats. Minimum conversion value is 0.1 of any stat.)
Skills:
Magically gifted: Born with the ability to sense the mystic particles around one's self.
Tenacity: You feel less pain and take less damage from any kind of physical harm.
Bank: Coin storage with extra functions to trade items and keep a list of people from earth.
Inventory: You gain 20 slots of stackable inventory space with the limit of 20 stackable items each slot. (Items should be similar to be stacked.)
Inspect: When target is in line of sight, shows all the information along with stats.
[A/N: This should be enough. Hopefully you guys know about the skills now…. Although I know most just skip past this stuff.]
'A hundred sixty-nine…. It's a bit less, but I can't really do much about it.'
He plopped onto the bed and was about to sleep when he heard a knock on the door. A pleasant female voice sounded,
"Sir mercenary, Lady Aarah has summoned you to the dinner table."
Lucio was surprised but replied normally, "Coming!"
It took almost two hours for Lucio to return to his room with his stomach filled with a lot of "delicacies", which were basically the same food that peasants ate, just made with a few extra spices and rare ingredients.
Lucio was exhausted as he had to listen to Adolf's talks of politics and narcissistic stories of his brave self. The politics were surprisingly interesting compared to the stories.
He climbed onto the bed and soon fell asleep, simultaneously waking up on earth.
*****
The first thing Lucio did after waking up was to plop into the bathtub filled with hot water, draining away all his mental fatigue. Luckily, Emiliano did not wake up this time and Lucio had a great alone time.
After changing into fresh clothes right after brushing, he packed all the clothes as he had to check out by nine in the morning.
He let the two kids sleep peacefully as he opened his laptop.
'Aaaah, there's so much to do….'
Among his to-do list of the day, the first thing was to check the forums.
He read through various comments and most of them were complaints about the limited number of lives they got, to which Lucio simply replied,
"Will you complain if you die for real? This game is meant to be realistic and if you don't like that, you are free to sell your headsets to competent players."
Most of the players who complained about the lack of lives were flamed and mocked by the beta testers and players in the wait-list alike, making them feel embarrassed about themselves.
Lucio had not released the money exchange function as it was still very early and even the in-game purchases were disabled. The only thing he did was to give them a teaser of the new functions that would be released after the beta phase.
'Forums, check.'
He was about to turn off his laptop when a post caught his attention. He read through it and it made a lot of sense.
[Posted by: Sexy Black Bear]
@Important staff member (I'm not the admin) I have a few ideas that might just straight up make the game super famous.
One, If you could introduce screen recording or something similar, it will technically work as free advertisements because content creators will jump at the sight of such a great game.
Two, this is purely for convenience but I also see cases where this might be very helpful for the players. If only there's a "Auto Play" option, people will not be afraid to leave the game. In some cases, a player might not be able to log in for the night and this means immense danger in the game. I hope you think about it.
Lucio read it twice and both the times he felt amazed that he had missed such important points, but he was still unsure that the system could do it.
'Hey, system. Can you add a custom feature?'
"Yes. But the options are limited. An example is, we cannot teleport something that has a huge amount of mass across the universe."
'Well, can you add an auto-play option and a streaming or video recording feature?'
"Yes. Both of the features do not require a lot of energy usage. But, creating them for you will cost money."
'How much?'
[Auto-Play: One million dollars
Video-recording: Hundred thousand dollars.]
Lucio had enough for both so he sighed, completely relieved, before replying to the post and pinning it on top.
[Posted by: Important staff member (I'm not the admin)]
The video recording will be introduced when the beta phase 2 starts.
Auto-play will be a premium option which will be introduced when the game officially launches.
Signing off,
Peace.
It was still six in the morning but as Lucio had a lot of work to do, he woke the kids up and left the hotel early, before calling Alex while he was on the way to the house.
When the trio reached the house, Alex was already in the house, sitting on a sofa and greeted them enthusiastically.
Lucio nodded and Alex gave him a bunch of papers, which he read before signing.
"I can pay the rent for a year directly, right?" Lucio asked as he handed the signed papers back to Alex.
"You can but that would be thirty-six thousand dollars."
Lucio nodded before doing the transaction on the spot and a few seconds later, Alex got the notification.
"You really are fast huh…"
"Well, yes. I have a lot to do so… please, off my property Mr Landowner's grandson."
"That was rude!" Alex said as he walked out, laughing. "I'll get back at you for that someday."
Lucio simply shook his head and sat down on the sofa, before using up all his "Company funds" on the system which had about seventy-seven thousand dollars made by selling a hundred headsets.
Twenty-three thousand was paid from his own wallet which had three million and fifty-seven thousand plus some change.
While Emilia and Emiliano were busy exploring the house, Lucio ordered some French Fries and Burgers for breakfast, which wasn't healthy but he somehow wanted to eat them.
After ordering the breakfast, he contacted Gloria and sent her a file before asking her to post an ad to buy 3D printing services and to print the item according to the file he sent.
"Also hire a few electricians or whatever. People who can work well with circuits and make them sign a contract of shutting their mouths. You know what it's called. You can hire a lawyer and I'll pay, but just make sure the fee isn't too high,"
Gloria said yes and hung up. She knew that the work wasn't according to her "Occupation" but she still agreed to do the work as she knew that the company was new and if she performed well, Lucio would depend on her more.
Lucio sent a hundred thousand dollars to the company's bank account, which Gloria had partial access to.
"Ugh, two more things left…. I'll do one now and the other one can wait." He said to himself before logging into the school and university websites for admission.
The fee for the middle school was twenty-nine thousand as a certain petite lady had told him, total being fifty-eight thousand for the twins. Then, Lucio checked the fee for the so-called Dango University and it said thirty-eight thousand dollars.
Lucio did the calculations in his mind and arrived at a total of a whopping ninety-six thousand dollars.
While Lucio was recovering from the shock, he heard a knock on the door and walked over.
He came back a minute later and placed a huge bag filled with burgers French fries and some cola. Calling his siblings over, he started eating as he was very hungry.
While Emiliano ate his food as he ran around the house, spilling some bits here and there, Emilia sat down on the sofa and ate cleanly.
'I wish that guy was as clean as this girl….' Lucio thought before shouting
"Get over here! You'll be cleaning everything you dropped."
"NOO!" Emiliano protested but was met with a knock on the head.
While they ate, Lucio changed his mind 'Guess I'll do both the things at once.'