Chapter 153: Foundation, New High

On 6th of August, Michael had gone to see John. Since Kate had not shown up, he did not go with her.

He went together with Benjamin, meeting with the old man, and introduced Benjamin to him.

Considering that Benjamin was a bio human of the same model as Adrian, he obviously had the learning capabilities.

So, apart from learning about business management, he also learned about chef skills. After all, since he was going to focus on the restaurant, he needed the necessary skills in that field.

So, for the initial restaurant that was running, he created a new recipe, for a new dish. It was a meat dish, something that was very cost effective.

Due to the cheap price and how good it was, it easily became the signature dish of the restaurant. Additionally, many customers loved that dish.

Of course, Benjamin was able to scout for several chefs, who were hired. Then, he trained them on how to prepare the dish. So, within just 2 days, they could basically prepare the dish, to the extent that it was very acceptable by the customers.

With the appearance of this new dish, quite a large number of customers were attracted over.

For the restaurants that were taken over, they had to be renovated. So, they were closed for 2 days, within which the renovation was done. Considering that money was not an issue, the renovations were able to be completed, especially with those working doing the work overtime.

And on Friday 8th of August, there was already a well-known brand of restaurant chain that had appeared within the city. The name of the brand being Starlight. The restaurant was open 24/7, with the dishes matching the time.

At the moment, unlike Annex supermarket chain, which had expanded to the entire eastern province, Starlight had only expanded within the city.

Further expansion still needed time. After all, for a restaurant, it mainly depended on the reputation that it had. At least, as compared to a supermarket, which was mainly about prices of items, a restaurant still needed to depend on its dishes’ reputation.

This was the plan that Benjamin had made. According to him, he felt that they had to stabilize first, before expanding further. Otherwise, things might get out of hand.

This was something that Michael understood. After all, unlike Annex supermarket chain that already had a foundation, Starlight had to build a foundation of its own.

Additionally, it was not just competing against other restaurants, but even the top notch hotels. With several five star hotels within the city, it was inevitable that the competition was very high.

So, for the restaurant to be able to flourish, it would still require a lot of time and effort. But with the ability that Benjamin had, that was something that Michael was the least worried about.

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Riverside residential community, Villa number 5…

Splash!

Michael suddenly emerged from the water, with his skin being exposed to the evening sun.

He had just finished pushing another skill to the expert level, before he came out to relax in the swimming pool.

Currently, he was wearing swimming trunks and was bare-chested.

Water slid from him in thin streams as he gazed at the sunset, his outline caught in the glow of the evening sun. Droplets clung to his skin, flashing briefly like embers before falling away, while the low light softened his features and stretched his shadow across the pool edges.

’Such a pity. Once summer is gone, it will not be as enjoyable to be within the swimming pool.’ Michael thought to himself as he observed the setting sun.

Since 5th to today, the evening of the 8th of August, he had managed to push a total of 7 skills to the expert level.

With a total of 7 skills reaching the expert level, the amount of SP that he gained was 42,077 points, which pushed his total balance to 89,256 points.

This SP balance was higher than before, when he had acquired 12 skills, with his balance reaching 73,523 points.

The seven skills that he had acquired included music production, investment/trading, app development, game design, graphic design, makeup artistry, and climbing and rope skills.

Because the skills that he obtained nowadays were random, it was quite a mixture of a different fields.

Regardless, each and every time that he acquired a new skill, Michael felt that the way that he viewed the world was kind of changing. As for what kind of change he was experiencing, he was not sure.

But still, he just felt that the way that he was looking at the world, it was as though he was looking at it from another perspective as compared to before.

Still, this was not much of a focus for the time being. Instead, it was on what to do next. After all, with the habit of maintaining pushing two skills to the expert level per day, he still had quite a considerable amount of time to use.

During the past 3 days, apart from the time when he left to meet up with John, he had never left the villa area.

Now, as he looked at the SP balance, which was equivalent to $8.9256 billion, Michael began contemplating on what to do.

Currently, in terms of money, it was not much of a problem. So, he had no intention of converting the SP into cash. After all, with Adrian and the others being present, the issue of the money could be easily solved.

All that they needed to do was to venture into the stock market for a little while, and easily earn back the money that was spent.

For that reason, the bank balance was always maintained at an average of $5 billion.

But of course, the money was currently spread in 3 accounts, Adrian’s, Damian’s, and Benjamin’s. After all, all of them were currently dealing with businesses.

The one that was spending most of the money was obviously Damian. After all, he was the one that was making the biggest moves.

At the same time, considering that the three industries that he was currently involved in had not yet stabilized, Michael was not intending to venture into another industry.

For that reason, using the money to acquire another company was out of question. As for acquiring companies related to the industries that he was involved in, he had no interest. That would be a waste of SP.

As he was still thinking about what to do, he suddenly remembered something. There was still the hitman who had tried to assassinate him 4 days ago.

Until now, the guy was still locked in the basement, while being provided food and water, just enough to sustain him.

But it seemed that it would not be good if this guy continued being here. It would be better to eliminate him.

And talking about the Hitman, until now, there was no movement from the Death Shadow organization. That was completely unlike them.

According to the information that he possessed on them, it seemed that they usually tried to make sure that the target was dealt with as long as the payment was made.

So, if one assassin failed, they would send another one of a higher level. But until now, Michael had not experienced an assassination attempt.

If there was any, and Adrian had intercepted it, Michael would have already been informed about it. But until now, seemingly, the Death Shadow organization did not have the intention of taking action against him.

Or maybe, was it related to the client who had issued the task disappearing? After all, if the client was not there to supervise, what was the need of completing the mission?

The entire Kingsley family, at least the majority of the core members of the Kingsley family, were currently in detention. They were supposed to be taken to court within the following week.

It would be at that time that they would be receiving their judgment, which was obviously most of them spending quite a good amount of time in prison.

Michael got out of the swimming pool, and Adrian came over, giving him a new pair of clothes to change into.

After changing the clothes and putting on a casual outfit, a black T-shirt and a pair of shorts, Michael suddenly asked, “How should we deal with that hitman in the basement?”

“There are several ways to deal with him. But the most effective one is to obviously kill him and deal with the corpse. That way, we can avoid future problems. But there is also the probability of subduing him to work for you.” Adrian gave the suggestions.

Michael thought about it, then thought about the information that he had on the assassin. The guy might have been forced to become an assassin, but was previously a mercenary.

During the time that he was a mercenary, he wasn’t a good person either. So, it could be said that he was not an innocent man.

The number of lives that he had taken was not low, and some of them were innocent. After all, when placing a bounty on someone, would the person placing the bounty care if the other person was innocent or not?

In most cases, those who placed the bounties were usually intent on dealing with their enemies or rivals. As for the issue of the character of the person to be dealt with, that did not matter.

“Okay, do as you dim fit. Just make sure that it doesn’t cause any unnecessary problems.” Michael instructed after a moment of thought.

“Yes.” Adrian responded before he departed.

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