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Yu’er laid on the bed, waiting for Max to come back. Her hair was still slightly damp, having just come out of the shower.

An alluring collar bone was exposed as a drop of water slide down her smooth deep valley. The white bathrobe was too short for her body. It wasn’t able to hide parts of her perfectly white thighs.

Yu’er was calm and composed, busily scrolling through her phone. It was the Awakened phone that was made for Awakeneds like them.

Currently, Yu’er was using her phone to keep up with the news all over the world. Yu’er had been doing this when she had nothing to do.

From what she saw, there was slight chaos on the west. A small group of Awakeneds tried to kidnap a group of women in public while it was bright in the morning. Special Forces were deployed and had to collaborate with rogue Awakeneds to swiftly cover the whole mess up.

They successfully stopped them from kidnapping those knocked out women and removed any traces of fighting. They also remove parts of their memories with Memory Wipe Talismans.

These things weren’t new. Awakeneds from that side have more audacity to do anything they want in the open, extremely confident with their skills, not caring about other people being implicated or hurt.

That was why it was a cruel place for weaker Awakeneds. Awakeneds die every day around the world from stronger groups preying on smaller ones.

Yu’er also saw news from other parts of the world where Awakeneds raise their own gangs, using them for their own purpose.

But these were mostly weak Awakeneds who don’t have the potential to reach higher ranks, contented with their lives, ruling small areas.

Yu’er then went to some local reports, and as usual, it was silent. However, Yu’er knows it herself that it wasn’t that there were no fights nor problems; they were only making their moves in the dark where no one could see it.

Here, Awakeneds have secret organizations hidden in their secret bases. In public, some of them would look like ordinary business people. Most of them would choose to seclude themselves from ordinary people, having the pride of being an Awakened, not wanting to hold themselves back.

There was this vague agreement around the world of not letting the public know about Awakeneds, keeping them all in the dark.

No one seemed to have any problems with it as most Awakeneds that are alive to this day or at least living in this place were raised in this environment where they subconsciously learn that they should keep their Awakened status a secret.

It gives them the feeling that they were special, better, and stronger than ordinary people, clueless of the world.

There were times where Awakeneds with evil motives would use their skills to ordinary people. But no one would waste their time to argue that they were wrong as there were a lot more important things in their lives to worry about.

As long as it isn’t done widescale and open to everyone’s eyes, most Awakeneds would turn a blind eye to them.

Luckily, the places Yu’er determined to be dangerous was not close to the city they were currently staying in.

Yu’er softly exhaled. She thought about Max, thinking about what he was doing right now.

Beside her was another phone. It was an Awakened phone that she got for Max. Max would be able to learn more about the world if he has one with him.

Yu’er watched the shining stars from the window with her calm yet bright eyes. Occasionally, worry would show on her face. She knows better than anyone that Max was strong, but she was still worried that something would go wrong.

Max notified her with his phone that he would go to one of the hotels that Xiao Ming’s father owned. Yu’er knows that place. It was their newest hotel, and it was getting more popular by the day, standing in the perfect spot close to schools, stations, markets, and local malls.

Max didn’t forget to tell her about the Awakened that they saw, the information on his level and skill, to convince her that it wasn’t dangerous.

The end of his message was an image of him posing and what should be an invisible Little Dou on his palm outside the hotel.

*Bam!*

Just as she wondered where Max should be right now, a loud noise interrupted her thoughts.

“Sis! We’re back!”

Max confidently barged in the room. He had a broad smile on his face as he quickly walked towards Yu’er.

“Did anything happen?”

Yu’er can see that someone good happened from Max’s facial expression alone. The traces of worry on her face disappeared as she looked at Max, not having any signs of discomfort.

Max was panting from intensely running home, carrying someone on his shoulders. Max pulled Yu’er up while he spoke,

“Come with me to the basement! I have someone there!”

“Huh? Wait, let me fix my robe!”

Max watched as Yu’er tightly tied her robe to cover herself. When she partly opened it, Max saw her luscious body.

He ran his eyes on her curves that Yu’er didn’t bother to hide. Max wanted it but shook his head, struggling to remove the lustful thoughts on his mind.

If there weren’t a person knocked out in his basement, Max wouldn’t have to hold himself back from pouncing on her.

…

“What’s this?”

Yu’er became curious, seeing Max hurrying him down but never did she expect to see a person in his basement.

The skinny guy had an overly red face. From the position he was lying down, Yu’er figured that he was unconscious, with his face on the floor, not moving an inch.

What was strange was he had a thick roped circled on his whole body, firmly holding him from making any movements if he wakes up, only that it was sloppily made.

“It’s my and Little Dou’s catch for the night!”

Max smiled with pride, feeling a sense of achievement of knocking out his first Awakened and ‘inviting’ him to his house.

Max felt great. If the Awakened were a woman, he would’ve been happier. If she were a beauty, he would not hold himself back from enjoying her.

There’s no need to show mercy to his enemy, especially if they are beauties. What Max would do was he would train them until their Loyalty reaches 100 to secure them to his side.

“Huh?”

[This was the Awakened that we saw! But he attacked us before we reached home, so Max decided to bring him home with us!]

 

Little Dou butted in from the side. She was the one who kept watch as Max went up to notify Yu’er about the issue and now they’re here.

“I wanted to ask him some questions about how he found us.”

This guy suddenly found them in the middle of the night. It was suspicious since they never left any trace for him to follow them.

His skill was Shapeshifting. It has nothing to do with any tracking skills. No matter how they see it, it was dubious, and Max wasn’t going to let him go. He wanted answers.

Feeling that there was a barrier of understanding between Yu’er and them, Max stopped saying anything to give Yu’er the idea,

“I’ll tell you everything from the beginning.”

 

 

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“Where are the items?!”

Xiao Ming’s eyes became bloodshot as he looked at the people in front of him. This was the first time his father entrusted an event to him after he pleaded for a long time.

“Where is all of it?! Where?! Tell me!”

“They were just here! I’m sure! I saw all of them a few minutes ago when I went down!”

Even the emotionless Awakened almost panicked. This wasn’t his fault. He came here a moment ago and saw all of it still here.

Xue doesn’t know what to say to his boss, because it disappeared like smoke. Xue didn’t think that it was someone like him who did this as even the strongest one he had encountered can never make all of the items here disappear.

Xue was convinced that the robbers used the vent to get out since it’s connected to every part of the building. Though, it wasn’t connected outside; it was connected to the roofs and the hallway where they can access the fire exit.

There’s a lot of ways to do this if there were numerous, which was what he believed happened.

“Where is it then! It all disappeared?”

“And what about you all!? Did I pay you to be this useless!?”

The guards looked down, knowing they messed up and everything they say won’t reach the ears of Xiao Ming.

There’s no point in explaining their side. Xiao Ming’s words also didn’t reach their ears as they all already decided to report straight to his father, who was more logical and experienced.

“Useless! Get out of my face!”

Xiao Ming then looked at the two guards that were stationed in the dim room. The two of them were different from the rest. They work directly for Xiao Ming.

“Boss, we didn’t let anyone in like what you commanded us to.”

The one on the right slowly said with his deep voice. That was true. Their only role was not to let anyone in. They aren’t responsible for guarding what’s inside. They solely need to defend the door against anyone forcing their way in.

“Are you telling me that you didn’t let anyone else in?! Where did they come from then, huh?!”

Xiao Ming gritted his teeth as his face contorted into an ugly expression. Before he was able to say something more, the guard on the left spoke,

“Boss, there is a message written at the wall.”

“What? Let me see!”

Xiao Ming threaded slowly as he was guided by the two. What he saw made him outraged.

[*We, Shadow Thieves, will rest in this city for now.

Whoever owns this place, you have good foresight to welcome us.

We appreciate your offerings.

– Shadow Thieves, we will be where the shadows are!*]

 

*Blaargh*

Xiao Ming spat a mouthful of blood. His chest struck with pain, not being able to take all this news. His face was burned in anger as he turned to Xue.

“Find them! NOW!”

“Even just one of them! I will give them hell!”

Xiao Ming’s face was totally twisted. He could only think about how fucked he was if his father finds out at the same time, thinking of how expensive all the items here were and how much they were going to pay if they weren’t able to find it.

Xiao Ming couldn’t believe that he was this unlucky, asking why does this have to happen to him. He badly wanted to tear the skin those people who were responsible for this. That was the only way for him to forget this.

Xiao Ming thoroughly deserved all of this. Max never did anything to him, but he chose to send someone to teach him a lesson. He offended someone out of his league, obviously having a death wish.

Max wasn’t going to stop until he hit rock bottom. This is just one of the first plans Max had for him.

When Xiao Ming thought this was the end, another one came up to annoy him, hearing someone’s heels coming closer.

“Where’s the next item? Why is it taking so long?”

The woman was the host of the event. They had been waiting for the next item but there still no one coming. She came to check when the crowd was getting impatient, urging her to stop wasting time.

“What happened here?”

Her eyes landed on xiao ming, hidden deep inside it was disgust, but it got away quickly replaced by confusion when she saw their surroundings.

“What’s this?”

“Where are the items? What did you do now?”

She turned back to Xiao Ming. Seeing him in this condition, a different feeling came to her. She felt pity, pity for Xiao Ming, knowing that he was going to be in trouble.

“You deal with this. You’re responsible for this event. I’m just the host.”

“B*tch!”

“You’re lucky now. I’ll get you back. Just you wait.”

Xiao Ming stared daggers at her when she turned around, wanting to jump on her and teach her a lesson. But he first had to deal with all of this. It was him who asked his father to handle this event.

He needs to come up with an explanation, or he would be screwed. Xiao Ming could only rely on Xue this time to catch one of them.

…

[Hehehe!]

 

“What do you think is Xiao Ming’s face right now?”

“He must be crying already.”

[Hahaha! It’s you who made him like that!]

 

“It’s so late now.”

Max was in a quiet neighborhood. He can only hear the trees rustling from the wind. Only the big full moon gave him the vision to know where he was going.

Max can hear his every footstep as he took a turn. Little Dou was the only one who made him feel that he’s not alone, and also the crickets singing.

[Yeah! And Yu’er will give you a lecture when you get home!]

 

“No way! I’m strong! I have a lot of escape skills and items!”

[You should give her some of the jewelry and gems that you got! That one diamond was good!]

 

“Can I? Won’t that be traced when people see it and think she stole it?”

[Hmm. I don’t know!]

 

“Then, can I sell it to the Store?”

[That isn’t possible!]

 

“Well, I’ll store it in the Inventory for now. In the future, maybe we can find a good use for it or recycle it into something else entirely.”

Suddenly, Max stopped. A few meters in front of him was the Awakened. For a second, Max got spooked when he suddenly appeared there.

‘F*ck! Does he know?’

Max acted like he was nervous, backing up one step. Inside, he was confused. Many questions came up his mind every second.

[…]

 

‘Wait a minute. Does he know? There’s no way right?’

Even though Max was baffled as to why the Awakened was here, he was never scared of him. He was only a Rank 1 Early Phase Awakened.

On the contrary, Max looked down on him. He was despising the Awakened’s stupid decision.

‘You’ve just made a mistake.’

When Max was acting nervous, he looked at his surroundings. Confirming that the Awakened was alone, further intensified his contempt for him.

His external appearance slowly turned scared. If possible, Max wanted to know why the Awakened was here.

“W-Who are you?”

“…”

“D-Do we know each other?”

“…”

“I-I’m going now.”

Max wanted to test how the Awakened would react with his action to see if he was hostile against him, or he has other plans.

When his shoe took a step forward, the Awakened, kicked the floor hard, shooting forward towards him. Max stopped the time as soon as he saw it.

“Hmph! Too weak!”

Max got close to the Awakened that froze midway toward him. Max took out a thick rope from his Inventory and tied his arms and legs together.

Max circled his body with the rope to make sure he won’t be able to use much of his strength to break it.

*thud*

Max punched the Awakened on his cheeks as hard as he can. Max wanted to knock him out and bring him home for answers.

“Little Dou, help me with this. How do you knock him out?”

“Take this!*

*Thud*

[Like this! Hyah!]

 

“Ow. That will surely be painful.”

Little Dou punched both of the Awakened’s eyes. She also hit him in his neck, sometimes adding in a kick.

Slap!

[…]

 

“I just slapped him.”

“That ought to make him unconscious, right?”

Slap!

Slap! Slap!

“Is that enough?”

“Last one!”

Max gave the guy a fierce kick, targeting the middle of his legs. Once he did it, Max felt chills on his lower body as he stepped back.

“…”

“He can’t have babies anymore. I’m sure of it.”

“Uhh.”

When the time stop ended, the Awakened directly fell unconscious. Not before Max catch him on with his arms.

“Idiot. You don’t just come here and try to fight me.”

Max once again checked his surroundings with his Status Checker, making sure there wasn’t anyone who saw it. It was only Little Dou, Max, and the Moon that witnessed it.

“Let’s get home fast! Someone might see.”

Max ran as fast as he can on the shadows of the dark and cold night with Little Dou settled steadily on his head.

 

 

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As soon as they heard the door closing, Max gave Little Dou a signal. He wanted to open the vault first.

It was the most useful of all the things that were in this room. Most of the items here would only stay in his inventory. Max couldn’t use them as they might be traced somewhere.

But money can never be used everywhere. No one would be able to trace it if Max doesn’t give others a chance to find him.

Another reason was he felt that he was starting to forget the numbers he memorized. Max hurried with Little Dou, going straight to their stations.

Both of them concentrated on unlocking the complex circular door. One at a time, they continued, slowly but surely.

The circular door has multiple locks that were connected to each other. If one lock failed to unlock, the door wouldn’t budge.

On its exterior, there were multiple looks, each having its different way of opening it. But in reality, it was only one lock. It’s either they can unlock everything, or they won’t unlock it.

Max felt what Little Dou went through at Xiao Ming’s room. It was the pressure and nervousness weighing down on their shoulders.

After a few moments of quietness with them doing their own work, both of them backed out, looked at each other, and sighed in relief.

Max took a step forward, reached out for the handle as he turned it clockwise. Metal scrapping sounded out as he turned it.

“Huuu.”

Max sweated on the metal wheel as he held it securely with his hand then pulled hard on it.

*creakkk*

“Hahaha! Little Dou we are now professional thieves!”

[Yeah! But I did a lot more!]

 

Little Dou laughed as her eyes shined. She was happy about them reaching this point and couldn’t wait to take all of this for themselves.

“Hahaha! We’re the only ones here, so all of this is ours!”

Everything around him was valuable. Max saw the treasures spread on the table to the money on the vault. He was only thinking about one thing: all of it will be theirs. Xiao Ming will deal with the rest.

“This is so heavy.”

“Hyah. Pull!”

“This is fine already.”

*Tock*

“No air? Is this pure steel? How was this made?”

“This vault is good stuff!”

“Hey, Little Dou should we also get this?”

“Actually no, no, we can’t. If we did, they would know that it was an Awakened if this thing disappears. We’re not Awakeneds, just professional thieves.

“Woohooo”

Max jumped on the stacks of money as he threw a handful of them to the air. The smell of money around him was incredible.

“We’re really rich now! I can’t get used to this!”

“Don’t worry. This is only the beginning. Our first goal was to have this city for ourselves. We’re going to dominate this city!”

“We’re taking over the entire underground world of this city to be the underground king!”

“Or maybe the school first? Whatever. I’ll definitely do it! I will run around the city more!”

“We can steal more of their businesses too! But we’ll take it one at a time.”

[That’s right! Dominate this city! Then we can move to some other place to find more women and get stronger a lot faster!]

 

Little Dou raised her fist, cheering for Max. It will be a long road to the top, and Little Dou knows that they have to try harder than how they were doing now.

*poof*

A large amount of money disappeared every time Max touched them. It was like his hands were erasing them from existence. Inventory is really convenient.

…

“This is the last one! Bye!”

*poof*

“Xiao Ming you’re in trouble now! Hahaha!”

The vault was left with nothing. Max thoroughly swept everything, leaving nothing inside. Max can visualize the contents of his Inventory, and the amount of money in there was unbelievable.

But Max wasn’t contented with just this. He remembered that he came here to make trouble for Xiao Ming and he would make the best out of it.

“Come Little Dou. We still have a lot of cleaning to do!”

[I will take the shiny stuff!]

 

Little Dou flew to the diamonds that she had been eyeing as Max went to the heavier ones. With one touch, the items disappeared.

Little Dou flew back with different gems on her arms. All of it disappeared to Max’s Inventory.

…

The warehouse was now empty except for the tables and the vault. Max and Little Dou looked satisfied. Their faces glowed with happiness. This night was eventful for them, gaining a lot of things in one go.

“Let’s write our name on the wall!”

“No not our real names! Our thieves group! Haha, in the future, I want influential people to shiver in fear when they hear this name!”

“Let’s take this chance to let them know who we are and who they will be dealing with in the future!”

[Un! A second identity? Let’s do it!]

 

[You can be Max in the morning and someone else at night!]

 

Little Dou liked the idea of having a second identity. Max can use it to fight enemies in another identity and also maybe socialize with other Awakeneds if he ever came across one.

“What name should we use?”

“Hmm. Shadow?”

“Shadow thieves. What do you think?”

[Shadow thieves! They will be everywhere!]

 

“Yes! They will be everywhere! We will be everywhere!”

Max got a random antique paintbrush from his Inventory and wrote those words on the wall. Max can already imagine what their faces would look like when they read it.

“There!”

“We have to leave now before the cart comes back.”

“We need to be far away when they get here!”

Max stopped his hand from reaching the door to ask Little Dou that was on his head about something.

“If we pull this door open, the guards would notice us? Also, wasn’t this door locked from the outside?”

[…]

 

“…”

[…]

 

“No worries. I’ve got this. We still have the Time Stop. We only need to think of the correct way to use it.”

“Should I do it?”

Max gave Little Dou a cheeky smile, implying something with his eyes.

[Up to you!]

 

Little Dou knew right away what he was talking about. She had been with Max for quite some time to understand what he meant to say.

A large and tall vase appeared in his arms. Max would make the loudest noise he could by throwing this vase to the door.

When they opened the door, Max would stop the time and make a run for it, straight out, back to his house.

Max had a target where he should throw the vase. It was at the vents on the ceiling. Max didn’t know where it was connected, but he wanted to poke a hole on it or destroy a part of it.

So they would think someone used that way to get in. The shadow thieves broke from the vents. If the vents weren’t connected anywhere, they would still be confused as to why it happened, and they will be back to knowing nothing.

“Hehehe. Ready?”

[Go!]

 

*CLANKKK*

‘That’s a big hole! Any time now.’

“What’s that?! Open this quick!”

When the door opened, Max stopped the time. He rapidly ran as fast as he can straight out of the hotel.

There were a lot of people back there. Even the Awakened was behind the door. Max continued running, having thirty seconds of Time Stop for himself.

Max ran outside the hotel, went farther and farther until he blended in the dark.

Without a doubt, Xiao Ming will severely suffer this time, and this won’t be the last.

 

 

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The cart once again got back after a long process of biddings. Since the guy pushing the cart had been in and out of the room, the guards allowed his entry with no delay.

All of them failed to notice someone else going inside along with him. Max successfully got in, yet he never lost focus. The next one will be the trickiest.

Just like Little Dou described, the room was small, and there were barely any lights. On the other side was a door, a large steel door.

Two buffed guards were standing on sides of it. The guy had to stand still in the middle as they checked various areas of his body.

This showed that they paid substantial attention not to let any unexpected problems to occur. Too bad they were ordinary people in the end. Not one of them was able to see another person in the same room as them.

If Xiao Ming were to station the Awakened in this room, it might give Max a harder time to sneak in as he had to be extra cautious with his movements and breathing. But with only these people, Max only needed to stay silent, and he would be fine.

Finally, their thorough inspection was done. They fiddled with the locks then turned the giant wheel in the middle as the two guards pulled the one feet thick door together.

As the guy pushed his cart in, Max relaxedly followed behind him. Surprisingly, it was easy getting up to this point.

Max halted his steps as he froze with his mouth wide open. Slowly, his expression started to change. His eyes shined as a broad smile crept across his face.

‘Hahaha! Little Dou do you see all this? We’re rich! We really made it! Look at all of this!’

Little Dou sat on Max’s head as they gazed at the fantastic scene before them. Different items were spread out on the tables.

Max became more excited when he saw the items that he had wanted to see. Pieces of jewelry that were appropriately arranged side by side, little bars of gold, and what seemed to be some rare metals and treasures.

There was enough space to fit more items in this space. It had shiny white and gold walls and floors that were smooth on his feet.

The items had tags on them and written in it were names and prices of it. The items were separated in two, one side where Max saw the jewels and gold. The other side was where the antiques like vases, paintings, and sculptures were located. There were also other unidentified materials with them.

[Max! There! There! Look!]

 

Little Dou pulled Max’s hair as she energetically pointed to the far distant area. Max turned to where Little Dou was looking.

It was quite far, but when Max saw it, he almost couldn’t contain his voice. His eyes widened as his body shook in delight.

‘Hahahaha! This! This is great!’

As they got closer, Max was able to see it more clearly. It was a humongous vault, more than ten feet in height but its width was many more times than that. It can be considered a small room.

This vault made Xiao Ming’s look like a small locker. Steel coated its exterior and seemed to have different layers of metals stuck together.

Max saw how the door is. It was about two feet thick. Max could clearly see it now as the guy was in the process of pulling it open.

‘So this is why they were strictly guarding this place? For a second, I thought Xiao Ming placed those guards outside for the auction items.’

‘But now I know the real reason why. Xiao Ming probably valued this greatly. What a huge vault. Do banks have something bigger than this? How much money would be there?’

‘Hmm. I guess that explains it. Xiao Ming only stationed guards on the entrance, thinking that no one can take this vault away.’

‘At least, no normal human can.’

The man left it halfway opened to push his cart inside. He then unlocked the one side of the compartment on his cart to unload a large amount of cash that he had gotten from the auction.

Though everyone can pay digitally, most people would still prefer a cash transaction, having to save money from the percentage discount for using cash.

That was what most people know. Few individuals take advantage of it to hide their earnings or wanted more secrecy from where their money came from, and cash was the easiest to hide.

There were also some who didn’t want anyone to find out their identity, or they might simply be a proxy for someone else.

‘What the f*ck!’

‘There’s so much!’

Max wasn’t much surprised anymore. He saw a lot of things today that he was numb from seeing a large amount of money stacked on top of each other.

The vault was full of money. It can be said that it only contained money. The entire vault was filled with stacks of cash that if Max dived on them, he would suffocate from the amount of money that will cover him. Even now, from the adequately arranged stacks, it was already taller than he was.

‘This is seriously crazy!’

‘Hahaha! Well, thanks for this, I guess?’

‘This is ours now!’

‘Before that, let’s see how he opened this thing.’

Max checked for a password or a code to learn how he could open this thing. Max moved closer to take a look. He wanted to be able to open it on his own since he won’t be able to secure what’s inside with this guy in here. And Max wasn’t sure whether he could get himself out if he allowed the guy to lock him in.

‘Little Dou, let’s find out how he opened this!’

Once the guy gets out, they can then start doing them a good deed of cleaning this whole place.

There were a lot of complications placed on the door. It has all sorts of mechanisms that even Max couldn’t understand.

But he won’t give up. Since this guy knows it, that would mean it won’t be that hard to remember. Max is an Awakened. He should have even the slightest bit of edge in memory and ability to learn.

‘So this goes like this?’

‘This turns like this.’

‘Little Dou, check that.’

‘The code for this is… And I should turn it this way.’

‘What’s this? Is this like a timer lock?’

‘They need to use this vault a few more times later, so this won’t be a problem.’

‘I’ll remember these codes, and you remember those?’

After checking everything, Max and Little Dou decided what they should remember. It wasn’t that hard as it looked. More like Max was new to this stuff, that’s why he had to study how it works.

Once they memorized the long sequence of codes, Max and Little Dou were ready to open it themselves. No one spoke to each other, not wanting to suddenly forget about the numbers. They only stared at the ceiling and focused.

…

*Kacha*

The sound of the door being locked can be heard as the guy went out. For security purposes, he was once again inspected. Even his cart was checked to see if he really left the money inside and took out only what he should.

Once he was cleared, they let him go. The guards went back to stand stationary at the side door. They didn’t know there was someone left inside, gobbling up all the good stuff that was supposed to be stored for safety.

 

 

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“For now, check everything that’s happening down there. Make sure nothing will go wrong.”

Xue nodded to Xiao Ming as he walked out.

“…”

After the Awakened went out, Max carefully watched what Xiao Ming was going to do next.

“…”

Based on his estimates, there are only about two minutes left for his ten minutes Invisibility Potion.

Max could use another, but he would prefer it if he would use it before taking the auction items. If possible, he only wanted to use two Invisibility Potion since it is quite expensive, going for 500 Points each.

‘Little Dou, buy another Invisibility Potion. Just in case.’

Max intently watched if Xiao Ming was going to move, tightly holding the potion in his hand. Soon enough, Xiao Ming moved out of his bed.

He walked towards his bathroom after stretching his body. Max watched as he closed the door and figured that he turned the shower on, hearing the sounds of water streaming down.

“Quick! Where is it? We have to finish this as fast as we can!”

Max stood up as he looked at Little Dou. They were running out of time, and Max didn’t want to give anyone the slightest bit of information about who the robber was.

[This way!]

 

Little Dou flew to an ordinary painting sticking on the wall. She then pushed it to the side with the help of Max to expose the vault that was hiding behind it.

“It’s locked!”

Max turned the switch as he pulled, but it wasn’t bulging. They needed a long string of numbers to unlock it.

[I still remember it. Let me try!]

 

Little Dou clicked on a series of buttons. Her face became serious as she tried hard to remember what she saw a while ago.

Sometimes, Little Dou stopped clicking as she hesitated on clicking the next number, fearing that it was wrong. After making sure that she added the right code, Little Dou backed out and gave Max a signal to open it.

“Please work.”

Everything would be useless when this didn’t work. Max could try using some of his skills, but it would give away who was responsible even if it’s just a little bit, Max didn’t want to give any clue.

He wanted it to be a mystery for anyone that would investigate it, and if an Awakened joined the investigation, they still wouldn’t know who it was that did this.

*Click*

“Hahaha! Good job, Little Dou!”

[Hehehe! Of course! It wasn’t hard at all!]

 

Little Dou boasted as she was delighted that she was able to do it. She was nervous that she was wrong on a few numbers since she had a hard time memorizing it from how fast Xiao Ming typed it in.

For a second there, Little Dou thought that they would come here for nothing, almost felt like she wanted to cry.

After seeing Max successfully opening it, she internally heaved a sigh of relief as happiness burst insider her, feeling really proud of herself.

Both of them turned to look inside to see what was contained in it. Max’s eyes brightened, looking at the contents.

“This-! This is ours now!”

The vault was full of cash. Stacks of them filled his vault. It slowly disappeared whenever Max touched it with his hands.

Max was so happy that he bought the inventory. He had finally found a good use for it, proving that it was a good buy. He reached his hand in, touching the stacks of money, sweeping Xiao Ming’s vault clean.

Max was so excited that he didn’t notice some things hidden at the back of the vault. His hand only reached them as they all disappeared to his inventory.

After cleaning Xiao Ming’s vault, taking everything, even useless coins, and some other trash, Max closed the vault as silent as he could.

Placing everything the way they were before. Max and Little Dou hurriedly turn towards the door as they ran out of time.

Xiao Ming was still relaxing in the shower, not knowing that a good chunk of his money was just stolen by the person he thought was someone he could squish like a bug.

…

“We did it!”

[Yeah!]

 

Max and Little Dou high fived each other as Max’s invisibility disappeared. Max peeked down the stairs, seeing no one using it, made him loosen up.

They decided to go down after readying themselves. Max and Little Dou couldn’t stay long here in fear that Xiao Ming would go out and see them.

“What’s the plan?”

[There are a lot of guards down there! You have the invisibility but don’t hit anything. There’s still the wind if you move too fast!]

 

…

Max and Little Dou went down after Max drank another Invisibility Potion. There were a lot of people passing by the place they were at.

‘That’s a lot.’

There were more people now than there were a moment ago when they passed through here. Most of them seemed busy transporting fragile and valuable objects out of the warehouse.

Max wondered how much did they lose from going up to Xiao Ming’s room, but his feelings turned to excitement as he thought about how much he got from Xiao Ming and how much more would he get from this stacked warehouse full of rare treasures.

Max was having a hard time going in. The security of this place was so tight. There was barely any space between them for Max to rush in and open the door while being unnoticed.

There was also the wind they would feel if he rushed in, so he had to take it slow, which will make it several times harder.

Max still has the Time Stop that he could use, but he had to save one in case of emergency, and he didn’t want to use the remaining one just for this, feeling that he would need later.

‘Ahh! We would lose some good items if this were to continue. Hmm, we should hurry up.’

‘Hey, Little Dou what is inside this door?’

[That door?]

 

‘Yeah!’

[Another door!]

 

Seeing that Max wasn’t getting it, Little Dou explained more so he could get a picture in his mind.

[After you get in this door, there will be a small room! It’s dark in there! You will see two guards guarding another entrance that has some big locks on it!]

 

[After that was the warehouse! I only took a small peek so I don’t know more!]

 

‘Maybe wait for someone to get in when the next item was going to be brought out? Or maybe use a facemask to copy someone like Xiao Ming? No, that’s too risky.’

‘What now?’

The area Max and Little Dou were currently staying at was very secure. They were in the hallway before the entrance of the warehouse.

Max was crouching under a long decoration table at the side, above the table were tall vases with flowers in them. No one would randomly move it, making it a safe place for them.

[“It’s here!”]

 

Both of them spoke at the same time, seeing the familiar card closing in on them. Max got ready, knowing that this might be his only chance.

 

 

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“Hahaha!”

Xiao Ming turned back to the Awakened as he played with his fingers. Seriously looking at him in the eye,

“Continue doing a good job, and I’ll give you a lot more money. You are the only one left on my side. Don’t disappoint me.”

“I will, boss! Hmph, the last one must’ve run away. He doesn’t know what he’s losing. What an idiot!”

Xiao Ming smiled from the words of the Awakened. He didn’t know that if the Awakened were in the same position as the last one, he would not hesitate to run away either.

This Awakened was only sucking up to Xiao Ming. He knows that Xiao Ming loves to hear people complimenting him.

“Don’t worry about him. He’s blind not to see how lucky he was to work for me. Someone like him will not have a good future. He might even be dead by now.”

“Yes, he’s probably dead!”

‘Idiot! If he were as good as you said, it wouldn’t be easy for him to die. You know nothing about us at all.’

The Awakened stayed emotionless as he agreed with Xiao Ming. Xiao Ming believed that he was right about what he said, already pitying his last Awakened for not coming back.

‘The last guy who attacked us before, ran away?’

‘Did we scare him?’

Max didn’t expect the guy to use his head and choose to run away. Now he had nowhere to find him. He could be on the other side of the world now.

‘I guess he’s very lucky.’

‘It doesn’t matter. That guy is weak anyway. But if we see each other again…’

Max won’t try to find him, fully knowing that it would be almost impossible as the guy had a mask. He could be standing beside him, and he still wouldn’t know.

‘This guy should be stronger than the last two guys, right?’

‘His face looks plain. Does he not have any emotion?’

‘I wonder how long has he been familiarizing on how to use his skill properly?’

Max would never imagine that it wasn’t that long. This Awakened named Xue was alone, and no one was able to teach him how to do anything.

Xue was a former thug or at least one of their people. He was very young at that time, always being picked on by his fellow members.

As he was the weakest member, he could only shut his mouth and accept all of it, beatings, hunger, and many more exhausting chores.

This continued for days, weeks, months until he became used to every single one of it. Xue was angry, furious but he can’t do anything about it.

He had no one else to rely on. If he were to escape, there would be no place for him to go to. Someone once escaped but got caught in the end. He still remembers the last day he saw that guy before he disappeared.

Xue felt helpless, but inside there was this boiling anger building up. He doesn’t realize that his mind was changing into something cruel and vicious.

He unconsciously kept it in, waiting for the right time but never got it when something happened that he didn’t foresee.

One night their group had a territory fight with another. It was a mess. Everyone fought to kill the other, using anything they get their hands on.

Xue saw a lot of his fellow members bleeding from the hard hits that they have received. He was still young at that time, so he was very good at dodging others, but he was weak.

When they saw that they were losing, a lot of his fellow members escaped, running for their lives. It was only him that was surrounded.

He got beaten, beaten so hard that he was bleeding everywhere, and his entire body was hurting. This time, he blamed himself for even thinking that his fellow members or some of them that were nice to him would help.

But no, they used that chance to save their lives, running away, no one even looked back when they heard his shouts for help.

As he was used to beatings, as well as feeling the fury inside him, Xue forced himself to dodge and pushed his way out, while being in so much pain.

Xue didn’t remember much of what was happening, only that he was running and running and running, trying to go as far as he can until he was trapped in a dead-end with nowhere to go.

Xue heard loud footsteps behind him as he experienced changes in his mind.

It was as if he could see clearer and hear louder. Not only that, the last thing he remembers was his body blending on the wall. He became a wall.

Xue was still able to think even when he wasn’t able to move properly. He could also see those people chasing him, turning everything upside down to find him then soon went away when they assumed he wasn’t’ here.

After they went away, Xue didn’t know how, but he automatically changed back, feeling a sudden wave of weakness wash over him as if he would faint at any second.

This was the first time he felt like this. It wasn’t the pain; it was his body. He was slowly losing control of his body until everything went black.

When Xue woke up, it was already the next day. He can now move, except for some pains here and there.

This was when his life started to change. At first, he was surprised and somewhat scared that he became a monster.

But after some time, he started to think that it may not be as bad as it seemed. Every day, he would try to use his skill in small ways, turning parts of his body into something else.

From then on, as a kid, Xue entirely took advantage of his skill. Xue still remembers the first he stole some food from a store, the first time he was able to change his face, and the first stack of money he got from a rich person at a bar.

It continued for years. Xue was able to learn a lot of things, especially his limitations of not being able to maintain complex transformation for so long. He fainted a lot, but he was able to know more about his skills.

Xue then hit a roadblock. He can get everything he wanted, excluding the real good stuff like guarded treasures or a massive amount of money in one go.

Xue was getting more greedy by the day. That was when he took the chance to rob the largest bank in his city and failed miserably.

That was the first time Xue realized that he wasn’t that special. That night, he clearly remembered others a lot stronger than him, and they weren’t alone.

So he left his city to hide here. Xue never stopped his training while selling his services to rich people. He found it fun to do, freely earning money doing easy jobs.

Xue was still hopeful that one day, he would be the wealthiest person in this world. He was a greedy person and would not stop until he gets everything he wants.

For now, he would lay low and take things slower and safer.

 

 

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Max felt good getting in so quickly, giving out a silent chuckle as he turned around, what he saw almost made his mouth drop on the floor.

Xiao Ming was naked in front of his mirror. Max could see his tiny dick from it. He had to stare at it for a few seconds to confirm that what he was looking at was real.

Max covered his mouth as he tried to hold back from laughing. He kept looking at Xiao Ming as he teared up while his body shook.

Little Dou also pinched him as hard as she could to stop him from laughing, not wanting Max to ruin their only chance this night.

“Hmm.”

‘I can’t hold it anymore!’

Xiao Ming flexed his arms in front of the mirror. He smiled, showing his teeth while contracting his stomach. There was nothing to be seen, only his fats.

His arms were also skinny, making all his actions pointless. Xiao Ming was moving his head from multiple angles as he changed his facial expressions.

“Pff”

Max forcefully covered his mouth, as he cautiously checked whether Xiao Ming heard it. Fortunately, he was so focused on himself to hear anything.

Max became calmer as he turned more serious. That was a close call, and he didn’t want to make the same slip.

“Looking good!”

Xiao Ming started talking to himself in the mirror. He nodded as he checked out his own body.

“Haah!”

He stood straight giving Max a full view of his tiny member. Xiao Ming even touched it while carefully looking at it.

“Heh. That was fun.”

“Most people don’t get any woman, but I have a different one every day.”

Xiao Ming puffed out his chest with pride. He genuinely believed that he was great about having a lot of women.

“Those peasants can only look up to me while I steal their women. Hah, they are clueless that I can just buy their women from them. Heheheh.”

“That isn’t their fault. I’m just too attractive. Do they have a face like this? Do they have a lot of money? They are nothing compared to me!”

Xiao Ming looked down on his soft dick, massaging it with his hands like it was the most valuable asset of his life.

“That worker was fortunate to experience my amazing techniques. She was even moaning so loud. Well, every woman that does it with me always cries out loudly.”

Xiao Ming proudly smiled as he shrugged his shoulders, implying that it wasn’t his fault for being this skilled in pleasuring them.

“I must’ve made her day with that. No, she probably won’t forget it her entire life.”

“Ungrateful woman. She didn’t even thank me.”

Max’s face was twitching every time Xiao Ming said something. He thought that the old man from the auction was already shameless. This was the real shamelessness, the peak of shamelessness.

*Knock Knock*

Xiao Ming wore the bathrobe from the side as he walked back to sit on his bed. He then turned to the door and said,

“Who is it? Come in.”

The door opened as the Awakened that Max saw slowly got in. This was the first time Max was able to look at him closely. Max felt like there was something wrong with this Awakened, but he couldn’t figure out what.

“Oh, it’s you.”

“Is there any problem down there?”

Xiao Ming laid on his pillow as he emotionlessly stared at the Awakened standing in front of him.

“No, everything is going the way they should be.”

“That’s good.”

“When they looked at the list, they said that there were more items this time compared to the past months. They were also a lot more valuable items.”

Xiao Ming laughed when he heard that. He felt like everything was under his control and that he did a great job of handling this.

“What did I say? I told you I’m a genius!”

“Lowering the percentage of the fees required while telling them that we have a good amount of security personnel that came from the well-known security firm that the banks use!”

“I promised them that their items would be insured if something happened before they were sold. Hahaha!”

“Hahaha. Boss, you’re so good! All of it worked just like you said!”

“Hehe, and they all believed it! No one in their right mind would even think of stealing from this hotel. This was the property of the Xiao Hotel Group. Even idiots wouldn’t want to be our enemy!”

“And also, with you here, who can steal them?”

“Stupid people. With only a few words, they instantly came running.”

“There’s no problem then.”

“As long as this event was successful, my father would leave me with a lot of business to handle. That would give me a lot of liberty to do more things!”

Xiao Ming gave an evil chuckle while thinking about the higher number of women that would land on his bed at that time.

His father would also give him a lot more money. He was already thinking about the things that he wanted to buy: new cars, new clothes, or even a yacht.

Xiao Ming can already imagine all the women, money, and the people that would go for a considerable distance to suck up to him and how good it would feel.

‘So pathetic.’

‘Too bad none of that will happen.’

Max and Little Dou were silently listening at the side. Max constantly shook his head, knowing that with him here, nothing good will happen to Xiao Ming.

‘Successful event? No, no, no. This will be the worst event and the last one you will have.’

“Heheheh, I can’t wait for that. Did you know that the host of the auction rejected me?!”

Xiao Ming turned to look at the eyes of the Awakened. Anger was reflected in his eyes as he clenched his fist.

“She rejected me! Everyone that rejected me didn’t have a good ending! Just because she’s a senior attendant, she thinks she can turn me away? Hahaha!”

“When we finish this event without any problems, get that woman for me.”

“That woman was getting cocky thinking that I can’t lay my hands on her, acting like she’s important when she’s not.”

“I’d like to see what you can do when you’re under me.”

Xiao Ming stared down the floor as he said that. Coincidentally, the area he was looking at was where Max was staying.

For a second, Max thought that Xiao Ming knew he was there. He could have sworn they had eye contact. Max even checked him once more with his Status Checker to make sure he didn’t have any skill to locate him.

Xiao Ming curled up his lips as his eyes became fierce. The Awakened, on the other hand, only looked at him blankly, waiting for his next instruction.

“Hehe, I’ll thoroughly enjoy your body and let others play with you after. That’s the price you will pay for refusing my advances.”

 

 

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[Here!]

 

They arrived in this quiet floor. According to Little Dou, this was supposed to be where Xiao Ming was staying.

This floor was small, only around ten square meters of lobby space. There were no windows, and overall, it looked like a small hotel lobby.

[He’s in there!]

 

In front of them was a fancy double door. From its designs, everyone could discern that it was valuable. It was a pity that Max couldn’t steal it.

The more he stole from Xiao Ming, the more damage he will give him so Max was prepared to do everything to hit him the worst way he could.

He would only steal the expensive ones as the others were worthless. It’s his time that is going to be wasted so Max won’t bother with the useless ones.

“How are we going to get in?”

[I went in a while ago after someone opened the door to go inside! We can wait for someone, or you just open the door and hope that he won’t notice! It wasn’t locked when I was previously here!]

 

“I have to open the door and hope that he won’t notice? What’s the chance of that happening?”

[I’m not sure! His bedroom was behind that door! If he’s lying down, he would be facing that door too!]

 

“What?! There’s no chance for me to go in that way then.”

Waiting for someone to open the door for them was definitely out of the picture. No one would wait that long just to sneak inside.

If Max were going to do that, he would rather break in and knock Xiao Ming unconscious while invisible and clean his vault in the process.

“Let me think! There must be another way.”

*Ahnn*

Max furrowed his brows, looked up, then shook his head. He thought that he heard someone moan beside him, but they were the only ones here.

*Ahnn*

While he was thinking of a plan, standing motionless, Max heard it again. It was like a faint sound of moaning somewhere.

Max tried to guess where the sound was coming from, pointing his ears to where he thought it came from.

*Ahnn*

Max went closer to were it was, hearing the moans getting louder with each step he takes until he couldn’t get any closer.

“It’s inside?”

Max stuck his ear on the door as quietly as he can to confirm whether the moans were coming inside Xiao Ming’s room.

*Ahnn!*

“It’s really inside!”

“Was there a woman inside a while ago?”

[No, I followed the Awakened inside. There were only two of them at that time! There were other rooms, but they were too far so I can’t say!]

 

Little Dou shook her head. From what she recalls, she didn’t see anyone though she doesn’t clearly remember the other rooms.

Xiao Ming’s room has a weird layout. The room behind the door was Xiao Ming’s bedroom. Behind his bed was a glass wall with wide and thick curtains covering it.

On one side was the bathroom and a walk-in closet. On the opposite side, was a door to the living room. The living room was then connected to the recreation room, and the recreation room was connected to the movie theater room.

It was weirdly designed that Little Dou wasn’t able to check the farther rooms to see if there were anyone.

*Ahnn*

…

Inside the room.

Xiao Ming was with a naked woman on the king-sized bed. The yellow lights shone down on them, illuminating their moving bodies. The curtains were open this time, but it didn’t change anything as it was already dark outside.

Xiao Ming was positioned in between her legs humping the woman as fast as he can like a crazed animal.

He was doing a lousy job at it. Xiao Ming only focused on pleasuring himself, closing his eyes while moving his waist.

The girl was lying down the bed, unmoving like she had no energy. In reality, she was only not in the mood for this right now.

If Max were to see this, he wouldn’t be able to stop himself from laughing. Xiao Ming’s dick was as tiny as his thumb. No one would believe it if they didn’t see it for themselves.

“Ahhh uhhh uhhh!”

Xiao Ming was shouting with every movement he makes. The faint, moaning sound that Max heard outside was Xiao Ming’s.

It was the walls that made his moans lighter, but it was all him. The girl was moaning along with him in a low tone. However, Xiao Ming’s obnoxious moaning covered hers.

After what seemed like ten seconds of humping, Xiao Ming reached his climax. Fondling the breast of the woman as he clenched his lower body.

It was quite pitiful to hear the fake moans of the woman he was humping. Even after he was done, she was still moaning. Evidently, from her tone, she was only moaning to act like she was enjoying it.

The girl was a worker at this hotel. She was only pretending to like it to satisfy the son of her boss. After this, she would get a lot of money, worth more than a few months of work.

This had been going on for a few months now, so she was extremely used to doing this. She even learned the fake moans to make him end faster.

The girl had a voluptuous body, but her face was ordinary, someone Max would not pay attention to if he ever saw her. Her skin was also unattractive; she had scars, rough, dry skin in some areas, and her legs were on the thicker side.

Only Xiao Ming would choose someone like her when he could have picked someone prettier. He might just be addicted to sex, not bothering who it was on his bed.

“Haa haa haa”

Xiao Ming had a satisfied expression on his face. When he wasn’t looking, there was a disgusted look on the girl’s face. He was the only one who was enjoying this.

“I’m already done. You can leave now.”

Xiao Ming didn’t care what the girl was feeling. She was just one of the workers he was paying. Xiao Ming wiped himself, not even glancing at her.

The girl followed his words, getting up, and going out the door after hurriedly wearing her uniform. This is how it always goes.

After the girl got out, no one saw that the closing door opened back a little bit before closing. The one who was responsible for it was Max.

When he heard some rustling behind the door, Max instantly reacted, buying an Invisibility Potion and drinking it right away while staying near the door, getting ready to go in if it opened.

It was then that it really opened. Max didn’t have the time to look at the person who got out, only focusing on sliding in the gap unnoticed.

His leg slightly hit the edge of the door, but no one noticed it before it closed. Max smirked as he successfully got into the room with Little Dou.

 

 

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Xiao Ming was the first one to piss Max this much. Max wasn’t a good person. His belief was simple; if someone annoyed him, he would get them back one hundred times worse.

If someone helped him, then he would only thank them and most likely forget about it the next day. That’s how his head works. Not that he was ungrateful; he only knows that if he owed someone, it might come back and bite him in the future.

This will only be the beginning of Max getting Xiao Ming back. Max doesn’t think that this will be enough. And this wasn’t only for him, Layla and Lydia, his women, were also attacked, which made his retaliation several times harsher.

“Sorry for the long wait, everyone! Now, let me show the first item!”

The woman looked apologetically to the crowd, invoking some of their sympathies, especially those horny dogs.

“It’s fine pretty lady! Take your time!”

Max curse the guy who shouted that in his mind.

‘Sh*t! There’s a limit to being a shameless pervert! Are you a virgin?! Why can’t you control yourself? Old man, you’re already so old! Leave that to your grandchild!’

The bald old man was laughing on his seat, disregarding the hateful glares that he received. Some of them were angry for not being the first to say those words, thinking about how lucky the old man was.

Not minding the small commotion, the woman uncovered the cart, showing what look liked an unknown jewel.

The jewel was unpolished and dirty but didn’t seem to be damaged. It was as big as a hand and shined like a diamond.

“This was an unidentified jewel that was originally an inheritance from a big family. Since they currently need a large amount of cash, they are prepared to let this jewel go for a minimum amount of one million!”

The crowd’s eyes’ lit up, hearing that the owner urgently needed money. That would mean they were somewhat desperate, effectively lowering the price of the treasure.

As they looked at each other with understanding on their eyes, knowing precisely what the other was thinking, but one person broke the silence,

“One million!”

A man in a suit shouted. This tiny amount of money seemed to be insignificant to him, not caring about the circumstance behind the exchange. He was prepared to use everything just to get this jewel.

“Two million!”

Another man with a beard from the other side shouted. The same as the first man, he didn’t care about what most people from the crowd were planning. His eyes were only focused on the jewel.

The two of them shot the other a glare then turned back to bid higher, not wanting it to land on someone else’s hands.

“Three million!”

“Four million!”

“Five million!”

The audiences’ plan of keeping the price low wasn’t working because even though they were a lot of them, there were still a considerable number of wealthy individuals in this place.

Some of them were in the jewelry industry and would not waste this opportunity to put their hands on a potential national treasure.

Some people took some pictures to send to their bosses. Phone calls kept ringing everywhere as they became crazy in bidding.

A number of them pooled their money to have a chance of getting it, agreeing to split the jewel up later.

The bid continued to shoot up. No one wanted to give up. Most of the onlookers were starting to think they were crazy.

But it wasn’t that simple. From their years of experience dealing with jewels, they can determine that this one was different than the commonly traded ones.

“40 Million!”

There was a middle-aged man in the crowd that shook in excitement every time a higher bid was being made. His face was completely red as his bright smile never faded. Max figured that he must be the seller that needed the money.

‘Crazy! Crazy people!

‘What are they doing?!’

‘Too expensive! That’s a waste of money!’

Max was initially feeling pretty good that he had a lot of money, but seeing these people splurge money more than double his entire savings, made him feel poor and irrelevant.

Each bid was like a bomb that exploded in his ears. Every explosion made him feel smaller and smaller. In the end, the highest bid reached an outstanding 82 Million!

The man who got it was the first man who shouted for his bid. Right after successfully winning it, the man and the seller from the crowd went out to seal the transaction.

Since then, the man never came back. It seemed that he spent all his available balance in that jewel and not wanting to be in any trouble, went away while being guarded tightly by his security.

Happiness was all over the woman’s face. This was only the first one, and she already sold it for a hefty amount! If this were to continue, she would surely secure that lump of bonus.

‘Little Dou! We have to make our move now! This can’t happen again! I lost a lot of money just by sitting here!’

Max still couldn’t believe it. If he had arrived earlier and didn’t sit here to watch, he could have gotten that expensive jewel.

He felt as if someone stole his money even when it wasn’t his, to begin with. He already treated all the items as his property.

Max didn’t look back and walked straight out. As everyone was busy waiting for the next item, no one bothered to look at him.

He arrived at a small hallway somewhere. There wasn’t anything in it except some paintings on the wall. Since Max went out in the middle of the event, there was no one with him excluding Little Dou.

Max and Little Dou then went on their way. After Little Dou flew in so many directions, turning left and right for a good minute, evading some guards that were stationed in their spots, they reached their destination.

It was a warehouse at the back that has a lot of guards outside. Each of them was carefully checking the items that were being brought in and out of the room.

‘Xiao Ming is inside?’

[Up there!]

 

Little Dou pointed to an elevator that wasn’t operational. But that never stopped Max from using the stairs after avoiding another group of people to head up.

Max wanted to see if he could do something to annoy Xiao Ming, even just a tiny bit. After all, it would give him happiness if Xiao Ming were to be pissed off.

 

 

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As Max made his way in, he checked every person that he passed by. So far, Max didn’t any more Awakeneds at his surroundings, even the guards at this hotel were just ordinary people.

No matter how buff they were, they will stand no chance against a Rank 1 Peak Phase Awakened like Max. Knowing all this made Max feel better as he strode inside. Still, he didn’t let his guard down for any possibilities.

People were everywhere as Max scanned the entire room. Surprisingly, not a lot of them looked rich, which was not how Max imagined it to be.

‘Were they just here to look at the items being sold?’

What Max assumed was right. Most of the people that attended this event were only here to lay their eyes on the valuables.

Some of them had a little bit of money wishing to get a good and cheap buy, hoping that they would be able to make some money off it.

Almost none of them would be successful as most people in this room usually won’t make a mistake with their eyes, having years of experience in this kind of stuff.

Even if there were someone who succeeded in earning money, it would still be small and insignificant for the wealthy. For them, it simply isn’t worth it wasting time for those.

‘Jewelry and gold are amazing, but there are too many people?’

Max estimated that there should be hundreds of people here. That was crazy. First, he had to settle himself inconspicuously.

Max found a seat beside the exit door. It was the seat that made him the most comfortable as he can smoothly go out when anything happens.

Up to this time, people were still going in, and it doesn’t seem to be close to stopping. Max could only prepare himself to use another Face Mask just in case this would take long.

‘Haah. Why did I come too early?’

“Hey, Little Dou. Can you check the entire layout of this area? I want to know the best way to get to where the items are stored.”

[Wait, I’ll try and see if I can find one!]

 

Little Dou raised her fist as her face became serious. She treated it as a mission that Max gave her as she flew straight to the stage, not caring about the people below her. No one could see her anyway.

Her adorable actions amused Max as he watched her disappear off the stage. He wholeheartedly wished that Little Dou would come back with useful information, cheering for her success in his mind.

A few minutes passed, the whole place suddenly god silent as a beauty wearing a red dress walked out from backstage. She had fair skin, curvy eyebrows, and small cherry-red lips.

‘Of course, a beautiful woman should be the one hosting! Whoever was in charge of this event was an honorable person.’

Max nodded his head as he checked the woman out. Based on what Max can see from looking at other people’s expressions, she should be a regular on this event as most of them wasn’t showing anything on there faces while staring at her.

Except for some relatively old guys that were letting their eyes filled with desire and lust roam her body.

The woman should have gotten strict lessons on how to handle herself properly, not being bothered by a few hundred pairs of eyes staring at her, including the lustful ones.

She even gave them a slight smile. Standing in the middle of the stage in front of the crowd that was eagerly waiting for her words, she started speaking,

“Welcome to the monthly auction of the Xiao Hotel Group! The auction will begin shortly.”

The woman gave out a lively yet charming aura that entices people to want to talk to her. Maybe this was why she became the host of this auction.

Max also had a feeling like he should also buy some of the items so that the woman would glance at him, even just for a few moments.

While Max was waiting, he saw something coming out from backstage. It was Little Dou! Max looked at her, flying towards him, hoping she has some good news for him.

[It was really easy! There wasn’t much in there!]

 

[There were a lot of guards, but you can easily go through them with invisibility!]

 

[I don’t know if there were other Awakeneds as I have no way to find out! Oh! Xiao Ming was there!]

 

[I saw Xiao Ming back there! He was in a room alone with the Awakened that we saw a while ago!]

 

[I heard Xiao Ming talking about how this was his first time hosting the event himself. He also said something about nothing should go wrong this night!]

 

[Hehe! You will be happy about the next thing I saw! Do you want to know?]

 

Little Dou put on a childish teasing expression, but it wouldn’t work against Max as he knew that she would still tell him regardless if he asked or not.

“What is it?”

Max acted like he was very interested in what Little Dou was going to say. When Little Dou saw this, she brightly smiled like she won something great.

[I saw Xiao Ming opening a secret vault in his room! I even know the code for it! Hehehe! I’m so smart!]

 

This time, Max was oozing with evil aura from the thoughts that were running through his mind. This couldn’t have gone better for him, complimenting Little Dou, further making her happy inside.

Many people whispered to themselves as the first cart was being pushed to the stage. This signified that the auction finally began.

The woman stood relaxedly in the middle of the stage, waiting for the card to reach her. Since she was used to this, she looked very professional in handling all of this.

While waiting, she moved her body slightly. It wasn’t exaggerated in any way, but from the guys’ perspective, she was tempting them to further look at her with eyes like wolves. It does seem that she was enjoying every bit of it.

Not for the reason that most people think. It was only because of the more attention she got, the easier it will be for her to sell the items at a higher price.

If she sold the items at a higher price than expected, she would get a big fat bonus from her boss. From the looks of it, she might just get it this time. She was already looking forward to it.

Finally, this was the moment that everyone was waiting for. Not only the potential buyers but also the onlookers focused their gazes on the covered cart, anticipating the first item that was being shown.

The cheapest item that will be showcased would still go for a high price, so everyone was excited to have a glimpse of each one, maybe take some pictures.

Max was the only one that looked different. He wasn’t enthusiastic about it because if the first item was very precious and valuable, there’s a big chance that he won’t be able to get a hold of it once it was sold.

 

 

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