Domination System

Chapter 43

“E…eight million…” Trevor offered as he kept wiping the sweat off his face. Even in the cold air he kept sweating!

“twenty million!” Justin said blatantly. “ I won’t accept anything less than that” hunger could wait, business was paramount.

“eh?” Trevor confirmed if he heard correctly. The man was asking for twenty million?!

“benevolent sir, even though the jades are rare their worth isn’t up to that. Please reconsider your asking price” Trevor hurriedly said.

“hmmm, alright then. I’ll reduce it to fifteen million” Justin said twirling the wine glass in his hand.

“ahem…sir, even for a merchant like me that price is still took expensive. Please go lower” Trevor was last portraying now. He needed to score this deal!

Justin arched his brows. It seemed this man really wanted to get this deal. To be honest, he was really just shooting things in the dark. He didn’t even know the worth of the jade.

“lowest I could go is twelve million. Take it or leave it.” Justin dropped the wine glass on the table and stood up, seeming ready to leave.

Trevor started sweating more and more. ‘I have to stall for time or this man would leave!’ was all he could think about.

“okay okay, twelve million it is.” Trevor finally agreed.

“hehe, now you talking” Justin helped Trevor get up as smiles filled his face. He had just struck his first deal!

“so…how do I get the money?” He had been so focused on getting the money he hadn’t even thought about how he was gonna ‘get' the money

“ah, it’s simple. I’ll just transfer the money to your SFC account. Perharps…does sir not have an SFC account?” Trevor asked seeing as Justin was confused when he spoke about SFC.

“No I don’t. What even is SFC?” He had no clue as to what the man was talking about.

Trevor was surprised by that question. It seemed the man wasn’t a native of this a city After all. All the more better for him.

*warning: Host’s condition below required status, host poisoned*

‘wait…what the f**k? Poisoned? What the f**k is the system ranting about?!’

Nothing the sudden change in behaviour by Justin, trevor's lips curled up but he still tried to maintain a proper expression . “sir what's wrong” he asked in a concerned voice.

Justin’s vision was slowly getting blurry as he looked at the wine cup in his hands. Then he realized what exactly had happened.

His eyes widened as he hands fidgeted “y…you drugged me?!”

“eh? Sir what are you talking about?” Trevor played ignorant.

Glasses crashed as Justin cleared everything on the table in anger. He staggerdly stood up, grabbing Trevor by the shirt he pushed him to the wall. His eyes were blood red as he strained them to see.

“you bastard drugged me!” He was crazed right now.

Trevor struggled to free himself as he face slowly turned blue from the choking. “eekk s…sir I dfon't know w…what you're ta…talking about!”

Justin wanted to strangle the man right away but his hands lost their strength. They slowly released the man as Justin weakly fell to the floor, his eyes slowly closing up.

Trevor straightened his shirt as he snorted in irritation. “pfft, fools like you don’t deserve a penny!” He crouched and picked the amulet from Justin’s pockets.

He wasn’t still satisfied with all that, this fool had ruined his shirt! He kicked Justin multiple times in the stomach till he was satisfied. “now how do I get rid of this man”

…

Sky feather city trade market entrance, the crowds all walked by ether to either sell or buy somethings before the market closed. One thing in particular was noticed among them, they all avoided a spot which a man lay.

His face was buried in the dust, he was almost naked with only an underpant on.

“bruv, I think he's a mad man”

“A mad man outside the city's trade market? Why would the guards even allow such”

“maybe they're off duty…oh look, there comes one”

A guard walked up to Justin and lightly kicked him right in the face waking him up. “hya get up!” No manner of person was allowed to disrespect the core trade center of sky feather city.

Justin immediately got on his feet like a cat who had just been threatened. “w…where I’m i?” He looked all around him, wasn’t this the entrance to the trade market?

“hya what is a man like you doing sleeping by the market gates?” the guard asked. The man he saw didn’t loom anything like a beggar or a madman.

Justin didn’t even noticed he was almost naked, the thing that concerned him the mist was his necklace! He searched all over his body but the necklace couldn’t be in his undergarments, could they?

“My necklace!” He swiftly ran inside the gates screaming. Sunil ran after him curious about the man’s situation.

Justin went to the exact spot he remembered trevor's shop was. The other shops beside that were there but trevor's shop wasn't! A large empty space filled the place where trevor's shop was supposed to be.

Justin’s eyes widened, the man drugged him and took his necklace! He had basically been scammed of more than ten million!

“what are you looking for?” sunil asked justin.

Justin pointed at the empty space as his mouth quivered “a shop…there was a shop right here before. Where did it go?”

“oh that? Earlier this afternoon, the owner had suddenly left the shop and hired some men to demolish it. It was all done so quick no one even noticed until the man had almost left. What about it?”

“h…h…he left?” Justin slowly dropped his hand placing them on his head. He was finished! How would he survive!

From the man's reaction Sunil could already tell what had happened. “were you scammed by the owner?” the man patted Justin’s back.

Justin was too weak to even talk now. He was hungry, tired and s**t!

....

Sunil tapped a big oval shaped object. Light was given off from the object as it illuminated the whole room. “Light magic works best” Sunil whispered.

Justin followed right behind him, Sunil had looked on him with kindness and had offered him a place to stay. How many people could do that for a stranger in these current times?

The room was majorly made of wood, with a chair and table in a corner of it. A another door was in the room which lead to a bathroom. Lastly was the comfy bed which Justin was sure he needed.

All in all, the room wasn’t so bad. Only thing that spoilt its image was the dust and cobwebs that filled the room. Seriously...they were much!

“aha, pardon the look. It was my daughter's room before. I haven’t cleaned it since she left us” Sunil said with a smile on his face. His wrinkles on his eyes wrinkling up more when he smiled.

Justin gave no f***s about the look, all he wanted to do was have a nice f*****g rest after all the work today. He was just happy to finally have a place to rest his head.

Justin smiled and bowed “Thank you sir, I really appreciate what you’ve done for me”

“ah ah no, it’s my pleasure to help. Nowadays the economy is hard, with the zugan race coming up the higher ups have increased the tax to be paid by citizens. Because of that people now resort to stealing and thing like that. Many merchants also take advantage of first timers”

Justin reasoned what Sunil said. “what race?” He still had so much more to know about this world.

“perharps you haven’t heard of it. The zugan race comes up once every five years in the major cities of Lord Dyrotth's kingdom. It’s not literally a race, but it comprises of many challenges which the contestants will have to prove themselves in to come out above the oth....”

Snoring noises stopped Sunil from continuing his explanation. Justin dozed off while the man was talking.

A smile formed on Sunil's face. He gently walked Justin over to the chair and sat him on it careful not to awaken him in the process.

Sunil went downstairs and got a broom and some cleaning materials and went down to work. He dusted the bed, removed the cobwebs, swept the floor and by the time he was done the room looked like it had just been built!

He carefully laid Justin on the bed and covered him with a blanket. It was cold this night like sky feather city’s weather always was. Hot in the day, cold at night.

...

Justin woke up very late in the day, past noon. Noticing some activity upstairs, Sunil quickly warmed up the food he had made a while ago and brought them on a tray to justin.

Justin was in the bathroom brushing his teeth, it wasnt like the normal brush he was used to. This one was shaped in a strange way and the brushes were harder...like extra hard! But it really did get the job done.

As he came out of the bathroom, coincidentally Sunil was also coming into the room and what was in his hands...food!

Justin's eyes brightened up seeing the dish Sunil brought him. Eggs, fried Eggs! With perfectly sliced bread to go with them!

He was practically drooling at the sight. Sunil smiled at the young man, he guessed he hadn’t eaten well enough considering his lean stature. He had to fatten him up!

He placed the tray on the table and set the chair for Justin to sit on. Justin himself wasted no time before he rushed the food. Finally something to calm his stomach!

As seconds passed by, the food on the tray greatly reduced. Sunil had a surprised face, he had brought a quantity of food he was sure Justin couldn’t finish but the man surprised him.

“more...” Justin wiped his mouth with his sleeves as he looked at Sunil with begging eyes.

“ you’re quite a heavy eater. No worries boy, there’s more downstairs” Sunil laughed and led the way.

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