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Jason walked down the road towards the city. To be honest the decision to go to the city was something he made on the spot but that wasn't going to keep him from enjoying his time in the city of Herdita.

He walked raising his arms up to stretch as he brought up the note Perseus had given him of the things he wanted to buy.

"hmmm, some amour for the kids, a few health and mana potions, skills books... huh a transport carriage? "

Jason raised his head up from the displayed note and questioned why Perseus wanted to buy an entire carriage.

Boops popped in and gave his speculation

'its probably to prepare for the new members that will join in a few days, it seems that businessman Perseus and Arjuna ran into a while ago is finally sending some support'

Jason gave a light chuckle and remarked

"is he really going to help us? what have we done for him?"

Boops replied

'i checked into him, Perseus has been in contact with him ever since he was recruited off the streets, his name is Ritchi Sensu, he's been leading the group called the golden pig group he started the group 20 years ago and since then it has risen into a medium-sized cooperation with some significant investments in the fashion and videogame industry. Ritchi isn't well known or famous but according to Perseus he seems to have an innate sense of finding money or where he could make a profit.'

While saying this Boops brought up a profile for Jason. The systems' information gathering network wasn't very strong since Jason hadn't bothered to upgrade it yet. But it was simple enough to take the information off of the internet like so. Jason looked at the face in front of him.

Brown hair with a slightly balding head, a person in his mid-40s he had normal features. And a gleaming smile that all business people learned to have.

Perseus and Arjuna knew this person. They hadn't seen him in person for a while, but Perseus had successfully gained the sponsorship of the golden pig group. He had already let Ritchi know that he had a guild set up already. Which made Ritchi laugh and grin for a few minutes straight. But after a Ritchi promised that he wouldn't tell anyone he offered to start negotiating seriously with Perseus.

Perseus was waiting for that, and the two went into a good negotiation. When Perseus emerged from the room his negotiation level reached level 5 from how intense it was.

The terms and contracts they came up with summarized were

the golden pig group will provide the guild silver wings with money experts and more to the silver wings guild while the golden pig guild gains 20% of the shares of the guild and the silver wing guild promises to provide aid to the golden pig guild that will be formed eventually

Perseus remembered clearly when the two had finished negotiations. Ritchi let out a laugh as he looked over the contracts

"you reek of profit, even if this is unbalanced, my nose is never wrong, I'm expecting a hundredfold return"

Perseus let out a laugh and walked out saying to Ritchi as he left

"believe me we will cook you up a profit that will make even the richest man in the world squeal in envy"

Jason and Boops reviewed the information they had on Ritchi and the golden pig group and continued walking.

Jason walked with a small spring in his step. Things were actually looking up for the silver wings guild now that he thought about it. The rose household and strong family and noble house in the Belusian kingdom had expressed their interest in investing and supporting the guild and now the golden pig group a decent-sized organization in the real world was also sending help.

While Perseus did say that 20% of the guild shares went to the golden pig group. Jason had trust that Perseus wouldn't let the command of the guild slip his hands.

The silver wings guild was no longer going to be just a small group of kids that Perseus trained. It was going to grow into a large force of players with plenty of resources and support if Perseus and Jason played their cards right.

"ah that's right," Jason said to himself as he reached the top of a small hill and spotted the city. With the long line of merchants and travelers going through the gate.

"Perseus has been trying to infiltrate the underworld right? he even got Jack a position in a gang"

Boops confirmed

'yeah, Jack does have a position on the ripper's gang, it's still kinda low though and he doesn't have to much influence besides a few thugs'

Jason got onto the line and waited for his turn to reach the city gate. He quietly asked Boops

"any way we can increase his influence? or maybe raise his prestige?"

Boops went quiet seeming to think after a bit he replied

'hmmm i guess since the gang members only respect the strong, you could theoretically defeat as many high ranking members as you can in the name of Jack and raise his prestige that way'

Jason paused. The words that Boops said slowly churned in his mind.

"Why didn't I think of that?"

Boops let out a laugh but took a double-take when he saw Jason's expression

'wait we're doing that?'

Jason only nodded prepared to launch Jack's prestige to the stratosphere.

Boops sighed but after thinking about shrugged his nonexistent shoulders and said to himself

'eh, well whatever, Jack needed to raise his prestige somehow might as well have a literal rose knight do it, oh speaking of which you should hide that emblem and your face when you do that, we don't want to bring any more trouble than those bandits'

Jason nodded and looked into his inventory at one specific item he got in the gatcha he only used once or twice

[cloak of hiding]

[rank: unique]

[effect: People can not see your identity when you are wearing this cloak. ]

[note: people with high perception are able to price through the effect of the cloak]

Jason honestly thought he was only going to use this cloak to hide from people, but it seems its uses were much better than that.

Jason reached the gate and handed the guard his adventurers card. He also revealed the rose knight emblem on his chest amour which made the guard almost stumble back into his comrade and send the two crashing to the floor.

The guard stood up and swept his hand towards the city in a welcoming gesture.

"Enjoy your stay sir rose knight!"

Jason nodded and walked in after collecting his adventures card.

Boops activated the talent seeking subsystem like never before, analyzing every person they saw. Jason and Boops were both sorting through hundreds of profiles. Sadly Jason couldn't see any noteworthy ones.

Some had talents in (cooking) or (accounting). He saw talents in (being lazy) a few too many times. Boops and Jason even stretched out their analysis to the npcs.

Jason was about to step into the shop that sold skill books when Boops let out a loud "there!" and highlighted a person's huge silhouette.

Jason looked over the information as walked over to the person.

[Roderick Westheimer (Rockey)]

[player]

[age:17]

[level: 15]

[skills: (great mountain smash), (hold fast)]

[talents: (shield arts rank B) (blunt techniques rank C)]

Boops let out a happy yell

'Finally! a tank! a natural-born tank!'

Jason ran over to the huge bald-headed person that stood a head taller than everyone else in the crowd.

"hey you!" he said as he ran over

The bald-headed 17-year-old turned to Jason and pointed to himself

"me?"

he asked

Roderick Westheimer was just a normal person albeit he was a bit bigger than everyone else, but that wasn't something to be ashamed about his friends all called him Rockey as a testament to his huge size and strength. At first, he was hurt at the nickname and didn't like it, but now he realized that they were not making fun of him. And he now wore that name with pride, even making his gamer tag as such. So now whoever saw him in this game would see (rocky) above his body.

Rocky wasn't much of a gamer, but this game, WOW it had blown up celebrities and politicians were playing it, and it had taken the world by storm, millions joined every day and it was already being called the second world or humanity.

And Rocky could see why! he could feel the wind blowing against his skin, the stale bread he just ate still left crumbs on his chin which he hurriedly wiped off.

This place felt alive! just like a bustling city, people were wandering everywhere. Rocky smiled to himself and continued to wander around enjoying the sights the game had to offer.

"hey you!" somebody shouted out

Rocky turned around.