[Notice: Congrattions, you''vepleted your second high-priority mission!
[Mission Briefing: A true leader doesn''t have to personally take action, especially when the arena is in the shadowy corners. Although your approach was unorthodox, your outside the box thinking allowed you toplete the mission in record time, exceeding the system''s expectations!
[Mission Rating: Excellent.
[Reward 1: 50 gems.
[Reward 2: 1x Game Voucher.
[Reward 3: 10,000 Achievement Points.
[Reward 4: Book of Revtions - Divination Chapter.]
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As expected, the rewards were far less grand than the first high-priority missionpleted.
Well, the divination chapter was something new, but Hiro wasn''t in a hurry to figure it out.
At the moment, he had 85 gems and over 20,000 achievement points, which was a great haul in and of itself.
It seems that the standard reward is gems, points, and a game voucher. Hiro thought to himself and asked, "Are all games capped to the equivalent of Tier-4 power level?"
[Notice: Games purchased through achievement points aren''t restricted to this power level.]
Hiro asked another question, "What determines the level of restriction?"
[Notice: Your native world doesn''t tolerate—or rather can''t amodate power levels above the stipted limit.]
In other words, the limit of power in this world was the lowest rank of Tier-4.
Despite the nourishment from other dimensions for thousands of years, this limit seemed to be the peak of this world.
Was this the main drive behind exploring the New World? Are the Big Three searching for a ce that could amodate their power?
The more Hiro thought about it, the more he felt like it made sense.
Expectantly, Hiro brought up his Legend of Babylon''s character details.
[Seeker: Hiro
Level: 70
Gold: 187,432,213.
ss: Mage.
Job: Arcana Lord.
Spells: Concentration, Inferno Storm, Water Vacuum, Earthquake, Hurricane, Thunderbolt, Enchantment, Hymn of Protection, Meteor Shower, Siphon, Curse, Wood Healing, Water Healing, Bad Omen, Ash Fog, Blizzard, Astral Protection, Omniscient Vision, Instant Teleportation, Advanced Elemental Mastery, Inverse Nova.]
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As expected, Babylon''s ultimate offensive spell—Inverse Nova, was learned by him.
All of these spells were rewards from the War Priest, and if Hiro wanted to learn more spells with greater diversity, he would need to visit the side quests and chain quests.
Unfortunately, Hiro wasn''t that interested since these spells had no quantitative influence on Hiro in the real world.
However, herees the next issue.
What game shins he get next? Also, how to spend the gems and achievement points?
The system shop offered him almost everything, which made choosing even harder.
As for the gems, Hiro was torn between saving them for the lottery or using them to improve the spirit array in the cave dwelling.
"Forget it… Since I can''t develop for now, then I won''t make a choice."
Shaking his head, Hiro stood up and stretched in the study. He opened the PARA app on his watch and sent a message to his private thread with Theo.
[Babylon]: I''m ready.
Then, he checked the time and muttered to himself, "It''s about time for the press conference. Ei, show me the live broadcast for the S-technology press conference."
"Affirmative," Ei''s voice echoed in the study.
Arge t screen on the wall blinked to life, and a ten seconds countdown was disyed on the colorful screen.
10… 9… 8…
3… 2… 1…
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S-gear Technology Press Conference, Sciatis Holdings Conference Hall.
Wearing a ck business suit and long, conservative pants, Arabe approached the podium under the shing lights of the camera shutters.
Her once cascading purple hair was bundled up in an empress-style high bun, revealing her slender neck and beautiful side profile to the audience.
Once she reached the podium with therge whiteboard in her backdrop, the reporters went silent, save for the asional snapshots.
Arabe smiled. "Thank you for attending the official release announcement for our newest S-gear technology. In the future, Sciatis Holdings Limited''s main industry will revolve around the digital world—specifically the gaming market.
"With neutral conductivity as the core of our technology, the newly developed S-gear VR Capsules provide peakfort, realistic immersion, and health care to allow our users the convenience of a prolonged gaming experience.
"Our technology is directly connected to a secured, algorithm based cloud server to prevent cheating, hacking, or trolling in our future games—yes, you heard correctly.
"S-gear technology will develop exclusive games in the future. To prevent counterfeits, reverse engineering, and likeminded menace from proliferating the market, we specifically developed a threefold source code to be installed partially within our exclusive games, the capsule''s operating software, and the cloudwork''s algorithms.
"Even if ourpetitors were to reverse engineer our hardware technology, they won''t be able to replicate our progress in terms of neural conductivity. We hereby announce that our technology is ahead by at least a decade from the current VR gaming market!
"Now, I will answer any and all relevant questions from the interested parties; corporations, patents fees, outsourcing, all of it can be discussed in the open for the world to see—Sciatis Holdings Limited has nothing to fear, nothing to hide… and the world has nothing that canpare."
The hall immediately exploded with shouting and raised hands.
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In the study, Hiro smiled brilliantly. His phone rang and he answered.
"Haha, you''ve really surprised me, Mr. Sciatis," Hiro heard the Handler talking on the other side.
This man was one of the few who knew of Hiro''s rtionship with the Sciatis Holdingspany.
The security and privacy regtions made sure that as little information as possible trickled from the Handler to the outside world, and COC was no exception.
They only knew that he was responsible for "Company X" but had no ess to the information of his client.
Well, the general manager of the Nexus Branch had ess to this information, but such a littlepany won''t draw his attention yet.
He responded faintly, "It''s just luck."
Suddenly, Hiro got an idea on where to spend some of his points. At the moment, Arabe had the {Business Acumen III} skill, which cost him 800 points back then.
He could further upgrade it now to increase Arabe''s abilities on the negotiation table.
At the moment, this level of business skill isn''t sufficient to grant her a country-wide perspective on business.
At best, level 3 skill wasparable to small business on a city or a county scale, which was insufficient to handle the uing negotiations with business tycoons and behemoths.
Without hesitation, Hiro stated spending to upgrade.
1,600 points…
3,200 points…
6,400 points…
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Arabe''s skill was sessfully upgraded from {Business Acumen III} to {Business Acumen VI}, costing a total amount of 11,200 points.
Almost half of his achievement points were gone just like that, but Hiro didn''t regret it.
Arabe''s current business acumen is sufficient for her to go toe-to-toe with international entrepreneurs on equal footing, and he could rest at ease with leaving his budding business empire in her hands.
Hiro had 10,320 achievement points left, and he decided not to touch these points until he returned from the Odin family''s expedition.
Hiro didn''t know that Arabe had nked out for about five minutes, almost causing a catastrophe in the conference hall.
Luckily, it was the open discussion segment and everyone was busy discussing in hushed voices, not paying attention to Arabe on the podium.
"What are your ns for the future of yourpany, Mr. Sciatis? Do you wish to hire a business consultant from our firm?" The Handler asked politely.
Hiro remembered that he was on a call with someone. He gathered his thoughts, went silent for a moment, then shook his head.
"No need, I''m only interested in the banking services of the COC, and I don''t wish to get your organization entangled with my business in the future."
If he hired their business consultant, they would get ess to sensitive information of hispany through god knows how many loopholes.
At the moment, they''re only permitted to keep track of his cash flow and mary transactions—nothing more and nothing less.
Furthermore, Hiro was confident that with Arabe''s current abilities, she was equal if not more qualified than the COC''s top business consultants in the Nexus Branch.
Like the power tiers, the levels of professionalism in the system are separate into I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, and IX; from level 1 to level 9.
On the other end of the call, the Handler went silent for a moment beforeughing lightly.
If it was someone else, they might have tried to persuade Hiro not to make a clear line between himself and the COC, but this Handler was a little weird.
He didn''t try to convince Hiro, not even half heartedly, as he immediatelyplimented Hiro for his foresight.
"Yourpany enjoys great future prospects, so your choice is the correct one… Hmm, I''ll help you on my end and close all the loose ends. This way, no one will hound you from this side for yourpany''s shares in the future.
"And… good luck, Mr. Sciatis."
Beep! Beep! Beep!
The Handler hung up.
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Hiro looked at his phone, speechless. Shaking his head with a smile, he muttered under his breath, "This Handler is really something."
As Hiromentedically, he heard Ei''s voice.
"Master, you''ve received a reply from Mr. Odin on your private thread. The expedition team has been formed, preparing for departure after midnight."
Hiro blinked. Their team couldn''t have been on standby just waiting for me, right? Well, it makes sense—I''m too OP after all.