"Good morning Zack..."
The morning was fresh, and Maximus lay on his silky sheets with his heated room and the suns rays filtering through the curtains of his room.
His voice was still groggy and his eyes drapped with eye bags from last nights sleep.
"Good morning, Maxi boy!" Zack replied with his usual enthusiastic tone.
"Don’t be too loud, I just woke up..."
"Oh, my bad partner... Whachu got for ..."
Maximus rain a dry hand through the his ssy braids as he thought for a few seconds before speaking.
"I have arranged the rest of the investnt money and more for the completion of the resort... I will send you the funds now..."
"Really! That’s good news Max!" Zack replied with clear glee etched in his voice.
"Yes it is good news buddy, so the rest of the work is up to you to complete... And we can officially open in the next six months as planned. "
"Whop whop! Boy we are on fire here!" Zack yelled into the speaker of the phone causing Maximus to move his head a couple centiters in discomfort.
"Are you drunk?" Maximus asked nonchalantly.
"Uhhh... Kinda, but I’m fine... Once I get up and discharge my mistresses I’ll get to work bro"
"Sounds good... Please drop updates for , I’ll still co by the site to check once in a while..."
"Roger that... In the anti, what will you be up to?".
Maximus remained silent for a second, he did have alot and nothing to do at the sa ti. For clearance, his Mobile kitchen business was going smoothly as predicted and he still wanted to use the money form selling his last apartnt complex to buy another one and renovate it as well.
"Hmmm, I still have my existing businesses to observe and maybe pick up sothing new..."
"Okay, bro Godspeed..."
*Beep!
The line went cold.
Maximus stared into open space for a long ti, his mind going through a series of highlights from his ti when he was living in a boxy apartnt and had motivation whatsoever.
He chuckled softly, "Who the hell is going to believe when I tell them my life changed all because of a mysterious pill I swallowed..."
Then his brain shifted to sothing clearer imdiately...
"Even so, I’ve never stopped to thing about how that pill made it to my door step... Where did it co from and who sent it..."
He sat up on his bed, leaning against the head board. His head tilted slightly in thought.
Then—
"Co Forth..."
Tti-ring!
The Investnt God System ca to life with its signature silver futuristic interface.
"Hmmm... I already know it would ignore if I ask... If it wanted to know, it would have told a long ti ago..."
He scratched the bridge of his nose and then shook his head to repurpose his thinking.
~New Business Domain~
~Resort Investnt is underway and will soon be established ~
~ROI> 80%~
~Business Partner Detected> Zack Zimrman (Holds 20% Ownership rights)
~XP Points accumulated> 60%~
"I see... Because I have shared ownership my XP points are literally halved, cause we are 80% completion and the XP should be at 80-90%"
"It’s gonna take a while to complete this investnt... In the anti I should take on sothing else".
»»»«««
"Sir, you have spent quite so ti looking at my wares. Have you decided what you want to purchase?" The shop owner of a decorated Antique shop asked Maximus as he had spent an hour and half looking around, examining his items in detail.
It had been several days since he carried on his investnt with Zack Zimrman and now he was looking for the next booming thing.
The system had given him a recomndation— Antiques Industry.
He knew a thing or two about antique wares but he wasn’t a ’guru’ per say.
So here he was now, beginning a new investnt to carry on once his resort investnt hit the ground running.
From Maximus’s appearance, the the shop owner had a hunch that he was one of those antique enthusiasts that knew nothing about antiques at all, but wanted to hit big with luck.
anwhile, Maximus didn’t know much but he wasn’t totally ignorant either.
Without the luxury to use his newly acquired skill to discern the authentic antiques with the counterfeits that were mass produced every day, he was stuck in the worst position.
Whether it be through reselling of both authentic and counterfeit antiques, the system only it as a business transaction if the price he sold the item for was higher than the cost price.
Therefore, he needed to find an authentic antique through the mountain of junk at a low cost and resell it for the system to recognize it.
"Sorry, I’m almost done..." Maximus replied with a coy smile.
Then, ll of a sudden, he caught sothing with the side of his eye, sothing unique.
Imdiately, he grabbed the the item and started observing it with keen focus.
It was a wooden horse made of modern dark wood. The horse was roughly the size of a humans palm.
What mad it unique to him was the poor craftsmanship of the item and how crudely made it was.
When placed together with the rest of the attractive counterfeit antiques that the vendor was trying to sell, it stood out like a sour thumb.
"Hey, shop owner, what’s the story with this artifact?" Maximus asked the vendor while holding up the object.
"You an that horse." The shop owner squinted his eyes and observed Maximus for a while before replying.
"That belongs to the great family of Harlem, passed down by my great grandfather. It was a palace toy that was played by the famous emperor Druisi around 500A.D!"
"...If you like it, I can sell it for you about thirty thousand dollars. No more and No less..."
"Co one now, you know that’s a bullshit story..." Maximus chuckled softly. It was obvious the vendor was trying to jack up prices to fool am ignorant custor like him.
Nonetheless, it was an unspoken rule in the antique world that once a transaction was completed, it would be final even if the item is a counterfeit...
’...This is because the value of an artifact varies for different people after all...’ Maximus knew this much and wasn’t going to let the vendor dupe him for thirty thousand.
’Should I use the Eye Of Apollo skill on this horse?" Maximus pondered for a while.
He had never for once use his new skill since acquiring it, but now seed like the perfect ti to try it out.
Compared to the obvious counterfeit around him, the ugly antique was much more intriguing to him. He wanted to see what’s the deal with this horse.
He glanced at the already active Investnt God System’s interface.
"Shimr..."
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