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Arthur was so busy sometimes that he just requests food to be delivered to his room during dinner. Kathlyn would happily bring it personally and would check on him along with Skye and Dylan, sometimes Jeremy would also join them.

Requesting to have dinner seems to be a bit formal for Kathlyn to do so. Athough he had some guesses, he agreed in the end.

"Master, are you still worrying about the auction houses?"

Of the three sentient black skills, Bolton was the talkative one. He would criticize everything and comment to trivial events. However, he would come up with ingenious plans that would be either remarkably successful or miserably fail. In events that his plans would fail, Argon will clean up his mess.

"Master, you see, as you were using your brothers for now to hide yourself as Argon had devised, I had an idea as well. This idea will definitely benificial for you but a little bit dangerous."

"Go ahead and tell me more of the details."

"Well, my plan is for you to use other persons to unlock the second gate."

Arthur, as strong as he is now, can only use the first gate which he can use one passive skill and two active skill for each of the three black skill seeds. For every gate that he unlocks, he has an option of upgrading the passive and active skills that he unlocked in the previous gate or creating a single combination skill.

If he chose the first choice, all the skills he has will level up in power characteristics and range. The burden of the power surge needed to activate the leveled skill will rapidly decrease as he unlocks the subsequent gates.

If he chose the second one, the combination skill that he can create will be based on the unlocked active skills or stealing a skill from a skill seed which is either harmonized or not. The skill created or stolen will mutate which will make it more powerful but the burden of the power surge is definitely higher. Also it can only be upgraded after unlocking five more gates.

Arthur's spirit accessory already progressed to number 67 attaining 6th tier class seven stars after using many potions this few months. He already calculated that unlocking the second gate may need atleast obtaining Level1 Titan class in power level.

"You just need to get several other people to bear the power surge. When you make potions, you need several potion tubes to store them, right?"

'The logic is definitely correct.'

Arthur became interested because of Bolton's argument. However, he was still pessimistic.

"What do you think Argon?"

"Well it is dedinitely a great idea. I was hoping you will be the one to point it out, Master."

"Oh, then you already have that idea before. Why did you hide it from me? Hmm,are you testing me?"

"It is not my intention, Master. However, when I first thought about it, I originally disregarded it because of the flaws of the idea."

Argon explained that if Arthur do choose to accept this method, then everytime he needs to fight, the people he chose for the method must be around him at all times.

The people needed for this method must also be compatible for him. Also, it is very important that they are mortals. Hybrids are possible, however, only early stage hybrids.

"Master, it is possible that no one would use this method because hybrids are usually proud and selfish people. The method of linking people is rather tedious because of the fact that you need to develop. They would rather develop themselves than to do that."

"Then, Bolton, what does this have to do with the auction houses?"

"The slave houses are near the auction houses. The neighbor will always have something to say to another".

"Fine, we will go tomorrow".

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'So this is what's happening'. When dinner came, Arthur went down and saw that the dinner table only had four people present.

Marty sat down at the center seat, Jeremy on his left and the old couple on the right. Arthur sat down at the other end of the table where the food is already served for him as if they expected that he would be there.

No one bothered Arthur as he started eating the food in front of him. Only after did he finished that they showed some gesture to talk to him on which he agreed.

"Well, I don't want to waste your time son, so I won't beat around the bush and get straight to the point. Your grandpa Chris and grandma Jennie wants you to supervise the training of both your brothers and your cousins, especially Alyssa. This is only fir this month that they will stay here."

"What do I get in return?"

"Your grandpa here will promise to supply you with all the herbs you needed. I heard you have some potions that can increase the potential of your brothers, as long as you give them some, I can satisfy one more request from you."

"I agree. As for the request, can I ask for it in advance?"

"Sure."

"Grandpa and Uncle Marty, please accompany me tomorrow to the slave houses. I want to purchase some slaves and you will pay for it. Is that alright?"

Christian quickly agreed without a second thought. He is somewhat interested what else does this grandson of him have in stored for them.

As for Arthur, this untimely help is really a good timing for his plans. He really was short on gold coins and he was planning on borrowing from his father, however, now he can put his mind on ease and buy as many slaves as needed.