Karas reined in his smile as he asked: “How about this. If I sell half of the tea leaves in the auction per… I don’t know, maybe ten pieces of each tea leaves per auction?”
“Then, sell the complete set with the remaining half of the tea leaves.”
“I’m also willing to include the four vases to be auctioned together with the tea set.”
Hearing this, Forlan clenched his fist tightly, his old age had already taken a toll on him, yet, his blood boiled as a tea lover!
He wanted to buy it on his own, but… “Karas… can you just sell it to me?”
Forlan knew that this tea set is only a single flavor of tea away from completion, the estimated value, if all of them are combined, is at least going to reach 20,000,000 gis, if Forlan thought about it being placed in an auction, it’s not hard for it to reach 40,000,000, and at most, it’ll be 60,000,000, that is, if it became a rather normal auction. But he knew it himself that the items he had been thinking about are those rare things, not the almost impossible ones to be held into… if that’s the case…
Forlan then thought of something, and that is if there are two people, people like him that know what they are buying.
It can definitely reach all the way to 100,000,000 gis, and it may also not end there, as, if Forlan will bid, a lot of his tea lover friends will know about it, they will bid like crazy. In the end, Forlan foresaw himself being defeated by that old scrooges over this tea set.
Karas looked at him and tilted his head with an expression of confusion and asked: “That… then, how will I be able to determine its value?”
Forlan immediately placed a finger up: “I’ll buy it, a hundred million.”
Forlan’s thoughts swayed a little, and he forgot that Karas is the Son of a billionaire as well, a hundred million? It may be much for normal sellers, but for Karas? He realized his mistake.
They are a company that works with hundreds of millions of budgets, will a hundred million really flinch a young master of such degree?
But Karas shook it off, not because a hundred million is too little, it’ll be pointless to have a lot of them in the long turn, but then, it’ll definitely help him for the next years.
Forlan saw Karas’s expression, no doubt, he had lost, he sighed: “How about I buy this tea set for a hundred million and talk about our company’s cooperation.”
Karas finally let loose as a smile plastered on his face: “Sounds like a good deal to me.”
The allure of the tea for Forlan is too much to pass by, after all, he has a small hint of what these teas are. And he wishes to sell these, then, a hundred million wouldn’t be just the end to it, he’ll definitely use everything he can and may even sell it to triple that amount.
Karas and Forlan smiled at each other and shook their hands to seal the deal.
Karas let a few servants help bring the items over to Forlan’s mansion.
As the duo left, Karas’s watch vibrated.
[100,000,000 gis deposited.][Balance: 102,001,984 gis.]Karas smiled, he immediately went to a bank to take 25% of it and immediately deposited it into his system, returning home, karas remembered something: “Right, tomorrow is the start of the game, right? Survival from the Ashes was it?”
He did a few more training before heading to sleep, based on his knowledge, the game will run 20 hours a day, it’ll be from 5:00 AM to 12:00 MN, but the first day will run for 24 hours straight and will open up exactly at twelve midnight.
A knock was heard just from outside Karas’s room.
“Master, it’s the time you assigned me to wake you up.” It was none other than Katul, Karas asked him to wake him up a quarter before midnight.
Karas grumped for a bit before stretching his body: “You may enter.”
Katul entered the room, immediately, four maids followed bringing light food for consumption before entering the game.
Karas sat on his table and opened the T.V.
Katul ordered thee maids to leave and stayed as he asked: “Master, is there anything else?”
Karas: “Prepare another set of meals for me within twelve hours, this will be my daily routine from now on.”
Katul nodded his head: “As you wish, master.”
“Un, you may leave.”
“Yes.”
Karas ate the food, actually, these amounts of food couldn’t satisfy him, but he needed to slim down.
“Just in, this cute creature was discovered in Ridan city, it’s a rabbit with an orange looking horn, a lot of people speculated that this is the evolution taking action.”
“Yes, a few religious believers also speculated that it’s the dawn of a new age, they believed that it’s sign of some danger in the future.”
“Right, here is one of them.” The news anchors reported and immediately, another screen was shown.
“The world is about to come to an end! This is already the first sign, demons are about to surface!” An old homeless man kept shouting with a sign in front of him.
“All should be prepared!”
Karas frowned: “It’s already here, I need quicken my phase.” A lot of people may not believe it, but he witnessed it first hand.
Karas then changed the channel.
“A really miraculous development, it can be seen how strong the child is as it slowly bent the spoon, it’s quite an unbelievable sight!”
Karas nodded his head: “They must be people close to where those aliens dropped from.”
“It had already started; it’ll be troublesome if I lagged too far behind.”
Karas bit the last piece of bread before starting the gaming capsule. It started to move, and immediately, it opened up.
The game hadn’t started yet, hence, it couldn’t let Karas start as well.
He started to relax, breathing in and out.
And soon, when the clock struck 12:00 midnight, Karas opened his eyes as the capsule moved.
A few parts of the capsule moved out of its body and started wrapping Karas’s massive body till only his mouth, eyes, and nose were visible.
It then took Karas and inserted him inside the capsule.
Karas’s thoughts immediately drifted as his face was covered by blue glass.
[Initiating…Registering character…
Loading world map…
Entering the world…
Select character name…]
“Ka…” Karas stopped, he couldn’t help but chuckle: “Handsome Slim Prince.”
[Is ‘Handsome Slim Prince’ correct?]“Correct.”
[Due to the player’s massive size, the system could redact a portion of the body, decreasing the player’s total size up to 50%, proceed?]“Proceed.”
Karas chuckled, it was the same from before.
[The movement of a character inside the game will affect the physical body of the player in the real world, consider it as an exercise while enjoying the game.] [Challenger, we await the legend you will create in ‘Survival from the Ashes’, brave forward soldier.]Karas was assaulted by a bright light as his body was transferred to the world, but he couldn’t help but frown.
He looked from left to right and all he could see are rabbles, ruins, torned houses and fallen buildings. Sky scrappers were nothing but destroyed, leaving only debris on the ground.
“This isn’t how I remember it…” Karas uttered.
But as he spoke, lights started to appear as more and more players showed up one after another, popping out of who knows where.
Karas remembered that the first week of the game was actually as shiitty as it could be.
He remembered when playing this, he started in a city with many NPCs available already.
“Is the location randomized?” Karas asked, but then, a thought surfaced his head: ‘The first week… does that mean that we’ll have to make our own starting point?’
At this time, a voice sounded.
[Greetings challengers, from now on, you will carve your own path!There will be no limitations and you can do what you can do in the real life.
Brave forward, challengers.]
Karas smiled: ‘It’s really this!’
He gripped his hands tightly as he looked outside the broken window filled with determination: ‘Help me get slim!’
