Chapter 31: Money and Power.

The month passed like a breeze with Sam being busy in-game while Carl handled the real world affairs.

Sam had already imparted Carl with a suitable cultivation technique of the body after all with the sparse Qi present Qi cultivation would be a failed endeavour.

Sam would capture the souls of the dead and unlucky transmigrators using his Soul essence he would convert them from Soul Qi into Pure Essence which is a higher form of Qi, at least in his former life.

He would then flood Carl with the pure essence as he cultivated his body priming and refining it to the best of his capabilities.

This was their routine for the month until Carl reached the seventh level of his technique. After all even cultivators in Sam's past life rarely got the chance to cultivate using Pure Essence.

As per his memories within this world there existed a hidden power scaling those with enough political or economic weight could tap into.

A normal human was simply that a mundane that was well mundane.

Following a normal human was a peak human one who had trained their body to it's utmost limits.

After peak human was inhuman, this was a being that had crossed the threshold of normalcy and common sense. This was equal to Sam's Third Celestial Body stage.

After inhuman was High human, this was a being that ascended being an inhuman. This was equivalent to Sam's Fifth Stage Of Celestial Body.

After High human was Super human, this was the pinnacle of Sam's current world and was a stage only those old monsters , hidden dragons and crouching tigers were at. It was however only barely equal to Sam's Eighth stage of Celestial Body by his estimate.

Within the month Carl had adjusted to his bloated increase in power by training with Rogers who was more than happy to finally sweat when training despite him being peak inhuman his foundation was robustly solid.

He was however no match for Carl after he fully consolidated his strengths and control over his body. The training was however beneficial for both of them with Carl mastering control while Rogers was having his bottlenecks slowly lossen as he approached the High human strata.

Multiple deals had been made between the three men from protection services to connections and introductions into the business field.

In a months time their Net worth had reached the speculated half a billion and had surpassed it by a few hundred million.

This was mostly due to Carl's high stake gambling and bets followed by his already picked out Lottery draws.

He had amassed so much in such a short time that the government sent their people to investigate him, but to their disappointment and his relief they didn't find anything at all.

The following months would prove to be more lucrative as he finally decided to branch into the Entertainment Industry as planned, slowly but surely they were building their foundation brick by brick.

With only five months left till the launch of the VR pods, Clara's, Lucia's and Lucas' graduation from high school the boys had a lot to look forward to.

Carl had decisively approached his former class and school mates those whom he saw within his memories as trustworthy and loyal. He offered them prospective job offers that would be addressed in time.

They also didn't forget to ease their parents struggles afterall Mr Valerian and Miss Amory were a learned people, Mr Valerian for example had a Degree in Business Marketing.

This was coincidentally how he had met his friends and future mother of his kids since they were all in the business department of their university.

With Sam's mom having a degree in Business Administration, both boys never really had the interest to ask about the other half of their parents mostly because it wasn't worth it anymore.

As the one month mandatory bubble passage was nearing it's end Sam's numerous plans were on full throttle as he only needed to step into Vestia before Chaos ensues.

He was ready to clash with the Behemoths amd Leviathans of the Gaming industry along with those of the political strata after all a majority of the Guilds had a well of sponsor.

He and Carl obviously did not want this and was therefore the reason for their increased thirst of money. Having a sponsor meant that they woulf have to surrender shares to a stranger whose plans and motives would not always coincide with their own.

They would also be forced to give the said sponsor a spot on their administrative table. That would be detrimental to them since they could only trust each other and a select few.

Sam had already picked out his necessary action, outside those necessary actions he would wholly enjoy playing the game after all he had no memory of playing. He had simply experienced it from the perspectives of others and not from his own.

This drew a question that had been bothering him for a while, within Carl's memories he had seen himself use the fabled stone of transmigration which was the reason a lot of people transmigrated but ultimately failed due to being rejected by their host bodies.

If he had also used the said stone why hadn't he died? He was sure his soul had reached him without a doubt but it hadn't tried to posses him, only the contrary he could almost tell that it was his transmigrated soul that made him recall his past lifes memories.

But the glaring question was why? Had his soul also recovered it's memories but at a later time in the alternate timeline? Was this why it sought to trigger his memories earlier than before?

He didn't no whether it was by coincidence or by pure luck that he didn't die because he knew there were a lot of casualties world wide with the death rates having already crossed the hundred thousand mark.

He had been busy gathering souls and now had a collection of them which he would use to nurture his close companions.

For now he would only focus on his immediate troubles of his life and not let his mind wonder around the what ifs.

End of Volume 1.