Chapter 126: Gambling

Monday 4th August.

Many things have been arranged to happen on this day.

So, on this day, after waking up, the first thing that Michael did was to read, to acquire another skill.

On the previous day, after he ate lunch with Kate, she departed, while he focused on acquiring another skill, script writing.

As usual, he made sure to push this script writing skill to the expert level, gaining 6,011 SP.

On Monday morning, he was reading about the armed combat skills. There was a difference between this skill and marksmanship.

Mainly, this armed combat skill was related to fighting using other weapons, such as spears, swords, knives, staffs, iron rods and so on.

Due to how the system regarded the skills, for this skill to be pushed to the expert level, all the information regarding different types of weapons had to be read on.

Of course, for some things, such as a staff and an iron pipe, there was not much of a difference between them, maybe apart from the length and material.

But even then, some weapons had differences in terms of material used to create them, or some slight changes in the design. Still, they were still used in the same way.

For that reason, Michael mainly focused on the main categories of weapons. That way, he was able to easily push the skill to the expert level before 10 a.m.

When he finished reading, and the panel showed that the armed combat skills had reached the expert level, Michael felt that the dexterity of his fingers had increased.

Even though he was already quite good, due to possessing the chef skills, which needed him to handle kitchen knives and other kitchen equipment in different ways, it could not be compared to his current dexterity.

As soon as he was done, Michael freshened up, before changing into a new pair of clothes.

Adrian had already left, together with Damian. The two of them had a lot that they needed to handle.

For Adrian, he went to Sky Technologies together with Christine and Lauren, the two bio human scientists that he had acquired from the system store.

The two of them needed to be integrated into the company, so that they could begin enhancing the current product that Sky Technologies had.

With the skills that the two of them had, it would not be much of an issue for them to be able to innovate something different.

But that was not what Michael was aiming for, at least for the time being. He might have money, but he did not have much connections.

So, he had no intention of suddenly producing something that would attract too much attention towards him, ending up causing a lot of unnecessary troubles.

Additionally, while it might be true that he had a lot of money, especially considering that Adrian had been quite aggressive for the past few days in the stock market, it was not enough.

Just having money was not going to be enough to be able to deal with most of the problems. After all, some things just could not be solved using money.

Regardless, currently, in Adrian’s account, he already had over $5 billion. This amount had been acquired by Adrian, but in the end, Michael prevented him from continuing.

Otherwise, with the way that Adrian was acquiring money, even though he had a way of making sure that nobody would know that he had acquired the money from the stock market, the money still needed to be used.

If a huge amount of money suddenly appeared within Adrian’s account, it would be inevitable that it would attract attention.

At that time, there was a possibility that they might link Adrian to the person who was making waves in the stock market. Then, that would lead to a series of problems, something that Michael did not want to deal with.

While the money was not illegal, it was usually problematic when others knew that you had so much money, but had no power.

Even the $5 billion that Adrian had in his account, if not for his skills, making it so that the source of the money could be traced, it would have already raised questions.

After all, in order to be able to get the $5 billion, Adrian had used several accounts on the stock market, just to ensure that he was not traced.

As for the money that Michael usually received, Michael had tried checking the source of the money. But even with the current skills that he had, the source of the money was still anonymous.

It was absolutely impossible to be able to trace the source of the money that he received after exchanging points into cash.

This in itself exhibited just how strong the system was. Though, it was quite surprising that nobody had ever questioned about Michael’s money, despite the sender of the money being unknown.

Nevertheless, on this day, Adrian was going to deal with Sky Technologies. The CEO, Martin, already knew Adrian, and that would make things easy.

As for Justin Clinton, the CEO of Annex Supermarket chain, Michael had linked him to Damian.

Since Damian was the one that was going to be in charge of the businesses, he obviously had to start doing something.

So, Michael had instructed him to go and deal with the acquisition of the supermarket chain, together with the optimization of the employees of the supermarket chain.

Of course, it was mainly to deal with the incompetent employees within the supermarket chain. That way, the growth of the supermarket chain would not be affected.

Additionally, both Adrian and Damian had already done some scouting, digging out excellent talents.

It was just that, some of them had already been employed somewhere, and they needed to be poached in order to come and work for Michael.

So, Michael decided against going for those that were currently working.

He thought, by poaching them, he would be attracting too much attention towards himself.

Instead, he decided to target those that were unemployed, or were employed by smaller companies and were being exploited, or used wrongly.

If someone was not given the chance of exhibiting the talent that they possessed, it would be a waste. So, he majorly targeted those.

The interview, being a routine, had to be done. But, that would have to wait for another day to be arranged.

As for Michael himself, today, he had an appointment with Alex. He had already decided that he would give Alex the Koenigsegg Regera today.

He had thought it through. Instead of purchasing another Koenigsegg Regera through the system, he decided, he would just give the one that he had to Alex.

This way, he would avoid too much attention, especially if people began noticing that the number of global limited vehicles was actually increasing.

Even though he liked the Koenigsegg, he could still acquire another car from the system store that was not a global limited edition.

And with the current money that Adrian had, Adrian could also arrange for him to be able to get another car. That was exactly what Michael was planning.

Earning SP was quite difficult, as he had to spend hours reading. So, instead of wasting SP like that, it would be better for him to just spend cash, as it was already available anyway.

After dressing up, Michael left the apartment, driving the Koenigsegg Regera.

On the way, he contacted Alex, informing him that he would be going over to meet with him.

It seemed that Alex and his group of friends had an event that they were attending. Alex promised that it was going to be fun, so, Michael was curious, which was why he decided to head over today.

Several minutes later, Michael parked the Koenigsegg outside a casino that was located in the outskirts of the southern part of the city.

This casino was not very popular, and the number of people in this area was quite limited. But, the parking lot of this casino usually had high end vehicles.

This in itself implied that this casino was not that simple. It was no wonder that Alex and the others came here.

As soon as he got out of the car, he realized that there was someone that was approaching. Looking over, he realized that it was Alex.

“You just decided to disappear.” Alex said as he approached.

“Been quite busy.” Michael responded nonchalantly.

“Busy with what? Just say the truth. You were hanging out with Kate, right? Just say that you were on a date with her, there is no need to hide.” Alex smiled as he said.

Michael just shook his head at that, not commenting. It seemed, recently, people had been trying to push him towards Kate.

From his perspective, he had actually not seen much of a problem with her. Well, maybe apart from her obsession with revenge, and her hatred towards gangsters, that might be the only thing that might be concerning.

After all, the way that she hated gangsters, she might end up doing something impulsive, which would negatively affect her.

As for revenge, Michael did not blame her. After all, even he himself wanted to get a chance of knowing what had happened to his parents.

“Let’s go in. The others are already waiting for us.” Alex said as he waved his hand, upon realizing that Michael was not responding to his joke.

“Are you here to gamble? That seems quite unlikely, as this place doesn’t seem to be that high-end.” Michael questioned curiously as he followed behind Alex.

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