Patty's eyes lit up when he saw another 1.2 million Chains in his bank account. This must mean that Andres finally delivered those Kores to Leonard! He knew that he could trust that guy.
Now that it's been established that this system could work, Patty just had to sit back and relax as the money came rolling in. If he waited for a while, then Achram would come back to his territory in the Virtual World bearing new gifts!
Each one of his family could bring a stack-load of Kores up the mountain! Then, he could just ask Andres to deliver those Kores again to Leonard. This was a foolproof plan of becoming a billionaire in just a few days!
Of course, he couldn't forget the reward for Andres. After all, this wouldn't be possible if it weren't for him. Especially since Patty was too lazy to deliver those Kores himself. If he wanted to keep Andres in his employ, then he should be given a carrot instead of a stick, literally and figuratively!
He looked at the Virtual World and saw the Magical Rabbit tending to his garden. There were about 100 new carrots in his field, each one containing 1 Yi Power. If he had more Minion Growth Crystals right now, then he'd upgrade the minion so that the carrot would give more than 1 Yi Power.
[Minion Growth Crystal: 240]
Luckily enough, it only cost 230 MGCs to level up the Magical Rabbit to level 9
[A-class Magical Rabbit Farmer]
[Level: 9/70]
[Growth Crystal Required for Level Up: 60]
[Ability: +18% Magical Harvest]
• If the user invests 1 Yi Power, the Magical Rabbit Farmer can harvest 1 carrot which can permanently increase 1.18 Yi Power for those who consume it.
Now, each carrot gives out 1.18 Yi Power. It wasn't much, but if someone like Andres ate 100 carrots, then they would get a total of 118 Yi Power. That's 18 more Yi Power. If he had more MGCs, then he would make sure to upgrade this minion first.
He didn't know how the Magical Rabbit planted those carrots since it didn't even have any farming tools. Could it have just used its paws to dig the soil? Or it could have also been planted magically since these crops weren't normal.
Thankfully, these Yi Power carrots didn't need a lot of time to grow like normal ones. If it was like the normal carrots, then Patty would have to wait about two and a half months. He didn't have time for that.
But since the Magical Rabbit was an A-class minion, it was able to speed things up and make Yi Power carrots in just an hour! Once the rabbit knew that it was harvesting time, it used its teeth to rip out the carrot from the soil.
As soon as it was out of the ground, it suddenly disappeared from the Virtual World and appeared in Patty's reality. Patty immediately stored them in his Space Ring. He had 100 Yi Carrots ready to give out as rewards.
After a few hours of watching Space Invaders on the TV, Patty heard a knock on the door.
KNOCK KNOCK.KNOCK KNOCK
Andres knew that Patty wasn't going to come to the door and open it, so he just went through the door after knocking.
"Ah, Andres. You have returned! Good job, man!" Patty praised the guy for his quick actions. He thought that the delivery would take at least a day, but only a few hours had passed by.
"Yes, sir Patty. I have successfully delivered the Kores to the researcher Leonard." Andres said. This was supposed to be a time for celebrating, but Andres seemed a bit hesitant as if he wanted to say something.
"Everything went well?" Patty asked.
Andres nodded. "The delivery went well. There were no complications at all. However, there was a problem when I tried to return home. I was ambushed."
"Ambushed?" Patty didn't know why someone would try to ambush a delivery driver. But he wasn't that much worried since the Kores were already delivered to Leonard.
"Yes, but thanks to the Teqx you gave me, I was able to fight them off."
"Who were they? Were they trying to steal the Kores?"
Andres furiously shook his head. "No, sir. I made sure that no one was following me that moment that I met up with Leonard. However, I may have been seen by some 'others' while I was traveling by bus."
Andres' anger seeped out of his face the moment he mentioned the 'others'. There was hate and fury in that expression, which could only mean one thing: it was his previous company, the Ruobber company.
"My previous superiors–those bastards–coincidentally saw me and came to the correct conclusion that I left their company for another one. They are one possessive bunch, and they won't let anyone just quit their internships without any price paid."
"So, they sent a few of their interns to do their dirty jobs for them. Of course they did, those bastards are too cowardly to do their dirty work. They were instructed to ambush me and make me spill the secret organization that poached me."
"But thanks to the Teqx you gave me, I was able to fight them off quite easily."
Patty calmly listened to Andres' story. He was just glad that he gave Andres those Carrots and the Space Ring. If he hadn't, then those Ruobber company thugs would have found out about his high-quality Kores. And if he hadn't given Andres a Teqx and powered him up with the Yi Power Carrots, then the ambush would have been successful.
"Good!"
"However, sir. Those interns who ambushed me were not doing it out of their own accord. They were forced to do it because their internship was at stake."
They only acted out of desperation. The Ruobber company had their lives in the palm of their hands, and they decided whether their dreams would become real or dust. Andres empathized with them.
"So, I ask you for a favor. Instead of rewarding me with those 'Carrots', then I plead for you to give these three a second chance at a new life."
As he said that, Andres moved out of the door and showed three youths standing outside his door. They were all looking down and had their hands together, begging for Patty to change their life like Andres said.
"Sure!" Patty said immediately.
What would he have to lose? A few D-class Teqx only cost him a few Credits, and he had a lot of those. Not only that, he would have more butlers aside from Andres.
And, the Ruobber company ambush was also another point of concern. It looked like only one delivery person would be a potential security concern. If he had more delivery men, then his Kores would have less chance of being stolen.
"Come inside," Patty instructed them. The three interns didn't think that Patty would agree that easily, so they weren't able to react properly. They just stayed outside looking at Patty, as if they didn't believe that he agreed that easily.
Andres shook his head. His clone separated from his body and pushed the three stunned interns inside Patty's house. "See? I told you that he'd say yes."
The three interns walked inside Patty's house with small steps. They didn't want to disrespect Patty's space by walking somewhere they weren't supposed to. After everything Andres told them about Patty, they nearly thought that Patty's house was a sacred place of a god.
"Introduce yourselves," Andres told them.
The one on the left had long hair up to his shoulders and he was the tallest of the bunch. He was the one who used the baseball bat. "My…my name is Jorn."
The one in the middle was the shortest of the bunch. He had bowl-cut hair and wore large circular glasses. He looked the nerdiest out of them all. "I'm…Roni"
The one on the right had black curly hair and had dark skin. "Dom…nice..nice to meet you, sir."
Jorn, Roni, and Dom were all from Chain High School, the same school as Andres and Patty. However, they were all from different sections, which was why they didn't know each other.
Patty wouldn't have recognized them even if they were his classmates and he sat beside them. His brain was just too lazy to remember names and faces.
"Andres must have told you already, but you have to sign a contract. This just says that you cannot betray me or something like that."
The three interns nodded their heads. The Ruobber company already made them sign a much worse contract before. Andres already told them that this contract would protect both parties and wasn't unfair at all. As long as they weren't planning on spilling Patty's secrets to enemies, then they would be fine.
Patty then summoned Contract Cataract minion. The prolate spheroid minion looked at all three of them and then closed its eyelids.
The interns were surprised at seeing a strange floating animal that was shaped like an elongated sphere, but Andres assured them that this animal wouldn't bite them.
The minion then printed three new contracts having the same contents as Andres' contract. The three of them read through the contract and saw that there was nothing wrong or unjust that was disadvantageous to them.
They quickly signed the contract, and the papers immediately disappeared along with the minion.
"Now that that's over," Patty said as he clapped his hands. "What Teqx do you want?"