47 Farming the Table
The next day passed without much problem. Trevon moved to the new house. He also had started to practice '1.000 Holy Flashes' Earth level based on the information, but he hadn't made any progress.
Trevon then visited the beloved fruit merchant in the afternoon. After that, he purchased some broken artifacts in the black market for 156 spirit stones. He obtained 295.653 core energies in return.
Trevon practiced some painting with Aya as the model at night. Before he returned to his new house. He was free from Raina in his new house.
Of course, he didn't forget the usual troublemeter. He also fed Nana and the little rabbinks. At night, he read the adventure of Linley Baruch on CD. He loved how the law used in the story.
[I want to master the law of joining. Hwehwehwe.]
The day after was the day that Trevon had been waiting. He quickly woke up and practiced '1.000 Holy Flashes' Earth level.
[I still miss something.] Trevon tried to do the movement based on the knowledge in his mind, but he still missed something.
He had managed to manifest one hundred and fifty flashes. While to reach Earth level mastery, he must be able to manifest three hundred flashes. Trevon believed if he could control a bit more holy elements, he could manifest three hundred flashes.
Personally, he could not wait the day he manifested three hundred flashes of light and made all the girls screamed. He had seen the potential of the skill. Those flashes were really beautiful, they were almost similar to rainbow fireworks.
Trevon took a bath before he went to eat the breakfast in the family pavilion with Jack and Jerry. Aya stayed in the house to do the daily chores. She also needed some cultivation time to break to become a cultivator.
Trevon tried to find his uncle to talk about the Redwood family compensation. However, his uncle was busy with some important experiments. He also tried to find his cousin Raina, but the servant told him that she was cultivating.
Trevon finally decided to go to his gallery. He went there and found Jonathan, Kevin, and Lance had already waited for him. Behind them, a huge number of kids crowded into some smaller groups.
"Morning, Young Master." Trevon bodyguards greeted him.
"Good! Is everything ready?" Trevon asked.
"Yes, Young Master. You could do the final check." Jonathan said.
Trevon went to the second floor and saw all the tables were next to the windows. He counted three thousand using his spiritual sense. Trevon needed to move around since his spiritual sense was still weak as a Rank 1 warrior.
"This is great. I want each table to have the necessary dining utensils and a burger." Trevon ordered.
"Yes, Young Master." Jonathan, Kevin, Lance, and Jerry quickly prepared the table. They didn't know how the restaurant would be operated.
Jerry was surprised to see six thousand kids. [Does young master want to use those kids to make a charity marketing?] He asked other confused bodyguards.
[We didn't even have a kitchen.] Jonathan told Jerry.
[I don't even know the current young master.] Jerry said. Trevon was changed after the hostage situation.
Trevon and Jack went to the first floor. He stood before the six thousand kids.
"My name is Trevon McArthur. I have asked my people to gather you here." He saw some skinny kids.
"I want half of you to work as the customer." Trevon told those kids. "The rest would act as the attendants."
He moved to look around the kid. Trevon then continued to order the kids.
"I want you to make sixty lines. Each line consisted of one hundred kids." Trevon ordered.
The kid quickly moved into sixty lines. It was a good payment to work under this young master. Some parents even fought for the slots.
"Good. The thirty lines over here will work as the customers." Trevon pointed to the thirty leftmost line. "The rest will work as the attendants. After half a day, the role will be exchanged."
"The rule is that you couldn't eat the burger." He told the kids. "I see some talented people here. If you work hard for me, I might give you a chance to work for my family." Trevon gave the extra bait.
"Follow me!" Trevon led the kid to the second floor with Jack.
"You looked like a kid-gang boss. Gwahahaha." Master Rabbink laughed.
Trevon only looked to the laughing Rabbink. He didn't respond to Master Rabbink taunt and quickly entered the second floor.
"All who becomes the customers sit in the chairs. While the attendants stand next to the table." Trevon ordered.
"I will show you how we will do it. We will start slower." Trevon told the kids. He used the spiritual energy to magnify his voice.
He walked to the first table. Trevon quickly selected Repeat Mission. While he needed to do several steps to repeat, it was an instant since those steps were all in his mind.
[Lv 1 Mission: Took a table near the windows on the second floor from other customers.]
[Repeat.] He activated the mission.
Trevon repeated the table-taking mission. By doing the repeat, he would get half the destiny energies. The five destiny energies were a small number. Yet with three thousand tables, Trevon believed he could get fifteen thousand energies per circle.
"I will point to this table." Trevon told the kids. "The attendant will take the burger and moved it to the table on the left. Trevon pointed to another table. After that, the customer will move to that table."
Trevon realized he made a mistake. He had more kids this way. "You two will be on standby. You will replace anyone who feels too tired."
The two kids felt almost crying. They were lucky that they got the job, but they were told to be a standby.
"Do not worry! You will get the same money!" Jonathan quickly told those kids. As a young man grew up in the slum he also knew what those kids wished.
"Yeah! You will get the same money, but you must be on standby." Trevon said. He continued the demonstration. He kept them for a substitute in case some kids were too weak like his beloved fruit merchants.
"Everybody looks to the tables before you. We will do it slower." Trevon repeated.
He pointed to the table. The kid who acted as attendant quickly took the burger and put it in the next table. While the customer moved to the next table.
[Mission completed.]
[User got 5 Destiny Energy.]
[Repeat.] Trevon quickly repeated the mission again.
He pointed to the next table and the kid quickly moved to the empty table.
[Mission completed.]
[User got 5 Destiny Energy.]
[Repeat.]
Trevon pointed to the next table.
[Mission completed.]
[User got 5 Destiny Energy.]
"I will try to do it faster!" Trevon ordered. He tried to repeat the mission faster."
[Repeat.]
[Mission completed.]
[User got 5 Destiny Energy.]
[Repeat.]
[Mission completed.]
[User got 5 Destiny Energy.]
[Repeat.]
[Mission completed.]
[User got 5 Destiny Energy.]
[Repeat.]
[Mission completed.]
[User got 5 Destiny Energy.]
...
...
[Repeat.]
[Mission completed.]
[User got 5 Destiny Energy.]
Trevon did a full run of the tables. Some kids were slow, but they finally all knew what to do.
"Jerry, time the duration!" Trevon ordered Jerry. Jerry quickly burnt an incense. Normally people either used a prayer stick and a sand glass to check time outside. Only rich people had the expensive mechanical clocks.
"You are smart." Master Rabbink commented. There had been several God apprentices who found some tricks with the destiny path's quest system.
[Who do you think this Young Master? I am the smartest and most handsome young master in Bluestar and Redwood. Hahahaha.] Trevon rarely got praise from Master Rabbink. He felt a bit proud.
[Repeat.]
[Mission completed.]
[User got 5 Destiny Energy.]
...
...
[Repeat.]
[Mission completed.]
[User got 5 Destiny Energy.]
Trevon completed the run again. This time was a bit faster than before, some kids still made some mistakes.
"How many incenses?" Trevon asked.
"Two and a half." Jerry answered. That means Trevon took one hour and a quarter to clear all tables.
Trevon knew he was the weak link in the speed, he needed some time to repeat the mission.
"We will try to beat two incenses." Trevon told all kids. He already got 29.545 Destiny Energies for two runs. During the run, he missed the timing for a few tables and some kids moved faster before he pointed to their tables.
Trevon absorbed all his energies. He felt a small increase in power. The little kid boss felt his bodies got some warm spiritual energy currents. Those energies started to spread from the area between his chest and followed the meridians into all his body parts.
Normally based on his family cultivation, he needed to start sending those current to the head. However, the destiny energy was spreading through his entire body by themselves. He felt a bit lighter after absorbing those destiny energies.
[That is around thirty spirit stones.] Trevon didn't believe he could absorb that fast. During his youth when he was crazy about cultivation, at best he absorbed four spirit stones per day.
"We will try to do it again. Attendants and customers will exchange position." Trevon ordered. "After this, you will get a break."
The kids quickly changed position.
"We will start now. Jerry, light another incense!" Trevon ordered.
"Yes, Young Master." Jerry quickly lighted another incense.
[Repeat.]
[Mission completed.]
[User got 5 Destiny Energy.]
...
Jerry looked into Jack. [Do you know what our young master doing? He seems to feel happy.] He talked using spiritual sense.
Jack looked back. [Don't ask me! Perhaps he loved to point to an occupied table. You must remember the day we meet that female attacker.]
Jerry remembered that Lucia and Lucio. [Yeah! Our young master turns strange after the hostage incident. I feel I made some mistake to Master Alvaro.]
Jack didn't reply anymore. He also felt he was responsible for Trevon's predicaments. [If only I stayed next to him.] He thought.
Kevin, Lance, and Jonathan also spoke to each other. They also discussed the strange actions of their master.
Kevin asked using the spiritual sense. [What restaurant is this?]
Lance answered. [Just follow him! The most important thing is that we will get the employee benefits. If we worked hard we might get transferred.]
Jonathan replied to the chat. [I was directly under Young Master. I could never transfer to another position.]
Kevin and Lance gave a pitying look to Jonathan. Each continued their spirit stones absorption. Even the lazy Jonathan preferred to cultivate than watching his young master.
...
[Repeat.]
[Mission completed.]
[User got 5 Destiny Energy.]
While his bodyguards spoke to each other Trevon had completed another run. This time was faster, he started to get the [Repeat] faster.
"How many incenses?" Trevon quickly asked.
"Less than two incenses." Jerry answered. There was still a bit of incense left in the last incense.
[So, I will get about fourteen thousand and five hundred destiny energies per hour.] Trevon thought. [That is over fourteen spirit stones per hour.] He started to love the destiny path.
"You enjoy this, huh?" Master Rabbink smiled. [Table taking was every young master's favorite activity. It always appears in every novel. Gwahahaha.]
[Not bad. At this rate, I believe I could reach Top Rank 1 before the demon beast came.]
"You? Dream!" Master Rabbink said. "You are only twenty times faster than common geniuses. Normally those geniuses will go from Middle to Top Rank 1 in five years. At best you will need three months to rank up. The higher the rank, the lesser the gap between you and common geniuses." Master Rabbink told Trevon.
[So, the demon beast wave will appear in under three months.] Trevon got something from Master Rabbink.
"I want to talk about your thought. You can't use this cheat forever." Master Rabbink quickly changed the topic.
Trevon knew this. He couldn't spend all his time doing this. He was unlike cultivators who could sit and absorb the spirit stones for months or years.
[I couldn't use this forever.] Trevon understood.
"Good." Master Rabbink felt proud. "You couldn't always cheat. You will need to walk the real path."
[No. I will find another cheat.] Trevon decided.
"What? You didn't hear me?" Master Rabbink complained.
[Do you have the lesson to make Repeat faster?] Trevon asked Master Rabbink. [Or could I do some mission to get a better table pointing mission reward?]
"NOPE!!!" Master Rabbink felt angry. It thought Trevon started to grow, but this kid always looked for cheats.
[You are not all-capable Rabbink!] Trevon tried to taunt Master Rabbink.
"No." Master Rabbink said. "I will need you to kill a Divine creature to unlock that lesson."
[No way.] Trevon didn't want to do the hardcore mission from Master Rabbink.
"We will take a rest now." Trevon told the kid. "Jonathan, give some extra money for the kid for today's lunch! Tomorrow, you will find the foods for these kids. I want you to prepare lunch and dinner." He said.
"Yes, Young Master." Jonathan answered.
Trevon went to a nearby restaurant and enjoyed some foods. He quickly returned and started to carefully scout the kids.
He found five kids who could be trained as warriors.
[Potential: 0/6]
[Potential: 0/3]
[Potential: 0/7]
[Potential: 0/1]
[Potential: 0/21]
[It was already great to find five kids who could be a warrior from six thousand kids.] Trevon thought. Those five were the lucky kids who received the God's Blessing.
The rest of the kids had zero as their maximum potential. Unless they joined the military and faced life and death danger, they would never become a cultivator.
Of course, this number was not something that interest Trevon. He needed people with at least 26 in talent for his mission.
He quickly returned to do the table pointing. His target was to be a little bit faster.
Trevon finally ended the day after doing five more runs. He stood in the center of the second floor to make the speed faster. At the best, he managed to reach fifty minutes per run.
"Good." Trevon felt satisfied. He took some gold coins to Jonathan. "Trade this with Silver Coin and give to the kids."
"Yes, Young Master." Jonathan quickly went from the gallery.
"You!" Trevon pointed to the kid with number twenty-one as his maximum potentials.
[Name: Berger]
[Age: 8 Years]
[Sex: Male]
[Species: Human]
[Potential: 0/21]
[Determination: 81]
[Cultivation Speed: 64]
[Loyalty: 58]
[Talent: Fighting - Hand]
[Ability: - ]
"Yes, Boss." The kid quickly came to Trevon.
"I will take you as the leader of the kids. What is your name?" Trevon already knew the name, but he decided to fake it.
"Berger, Boss."
"I don't want to be called as a boss. Call me young master!" Trevon didn't like the way gang talked to each other.
"Yes, Young Master." The kid was quick.
"Are you in a gang?"
"Yes, Young Master. I entered a gang a year ago." It was common for young kids in the slum to join a gang.
"I will tell Jonathan to pay your debt to the gang. You will be responsible to gather the kids in this place every day."
"Thank you, Young Master." Berger was happy. Working for a young master of a big family was always better than working for a gang. The young kid even needed to pay some money to the gang to get the job. He also needed to share some of his income with his captain.
Some kids looked to Berger with envy, the rest motivated to work harder to attract the young master's attention.
Trevon back to his thought. [I still believed I could do it faster.] He was disappointed with fifty minutes per run. His aim was for ten minutes per run.
"You should think of doing the real destiny missions." Master Rabbink commented. [This Trevon only thinks about how making his cheating more efficient.] It thought.
[Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.] Trevon didn't care about Master Rabbink's suggestion. [Who would do that strange fruit picking quests or do the dangerous killing in Redwood forest? This is the easy way to cultivate. The method that suits a young master. Hahaha.]
Trevon quickly absorbed the destiny energy. He felt the energy was absorbed into all his body. There was no priority in tempering.
"You must realize the wonder of Destiny Path. This is the most perfect of the perfect cultivation technique." Master Rabbink felt proud.
"Your God loves to temper his body, so he put the body tempering stage in his path of cultivation. This Rabbink had made the perfect cultivation technique for this universe since eons ago. Gwahahaha."
[Between Destiny Path and Aya's cultivation technique, which one is better?] Trevon asked Master Rabbink.
"These two couldn't be compared." Master Rabbink said. "Your Destiny Path is made by this Rabbink. While Aya's cultivation technique is just a creation from a lower divine creature that was perfected by this Rabbink." Master Rabbink snorted. It felt humiliating being compared to some common experts.
[Ok. Sorry for asking.] Trevon didn't know Master Rabbink was that mighty.
Jonathan returned with a huge bag of silver coins.
"Jonathan, I have put Berger as the leader of these kids. He will be directly under your order. After this go to his boss and pay for his debt." Trevon told Jonathan. Some other kids felt envy for Berger's luck.
"Yes, Young Master." Jonathan said. He then quickly gave the money to the kid. For a low job like these kids, the payment was usually paid daily.
It took another thirty minutes before Jonathan with Trevon other bodyguards managed to pay all the kids.
Since he was about to receive a windfall from the Redwood Family, Trevon had decided to purchase the 'Eat Eat Eat Eat Eat Eat Eat Eat' cultivation technique for Jonathan.
He didn't care about the negativity in the long run. Since Jonathan at best only could be a Rank 3 warrior. Trevon felt a bit lost that the third Level would only be used for two small levels. That would be seventy million spirit stones just for two levels.
Trevon went to the Universe Store and purchase the '1st Level of Mortal 'Eat Eat Eat Eat Eat Eat Eat Eat' cultivation technique. He took the light ball back.
"Jonathan, come here!" He ordered Jonathan.
Jonathan quickly stopped his cultivation and came near Trevon.
"Since, you are a part of my private squad. I will give you this cultivation technique for you. If you want to get the cultivation level for Rank 2, you will need to contribute a lot to me."
Trevon decided to value his follower contribution in spirit stones. If they managed to give him enough, he would purchase the second level of the cultivation technique.
"Yes, Young Master." Jonathan was surprised with the young master's reward. He already didn't expect anything from his young master. At best, he hoped for his young master's father, Elder Alvaro, to give him some pointers in cultivation.
[What is this?] Jonathan looked into the light ball in his hand. He tried to use his spiritual sense similar to when he read a jade slip but nothing happened.
"What are you doing? Just slam it into your head." Trevon ordered.
[Slam it into my head?] Jonathan was shocked. He had never heard this absurd method.
The other bodyguards looked at each other. They were all confused.
"What? You don't want it?"
"No, Young Master." Jonathan finally slammed the orb into his head. He was so surprised he got a strange cultivation technique. The knowledge was more profound compared to his current cultivation technique.
Trevon took his fan and fanned himself. He wanted to look cool.
"Thank you, Young Master." Jonathan bowed. No matter what cultivation technique was very rare and expensive knowledge. Even if he worked hard for fifty years in McArthur family, he would only get a cultivation technique for Rank 1.
Cultivation technique was very important. This was especially cultivation technique that could reach the Rank 3 or Rank 4. Most rogue cultivators could only learn some shallow cultivation that stopped them in the small level of Rank 1. They needed to join an organization or got a cultivation technique from an inheritance to get a better cultivation technique.
Changing one's cultivation technique also had its downside. They needed to redo the previous cultivation stage. While they could cultivate faster since the energy had been already in the body. Nevertheless, it would be a painful and time-consuming process.
"You four could also get cultivation technique from me." Trevon proudly declared to Jack, Jerry, Kevin, and Lance. "But you must join my personal squad." Trevon fanned himself.
"Thank you for your care, Young Master. However, we are contracted with your father." Jerry quickly rejected Trevon offer.
"Yes, Young Master. We also had learned a cultivation technique from your father." Jack also agreed with Jerry.
They already got a cultivation technique from Alvaro. Alvaro had gone to multiple mission and got some techniques during his journey. Some of them were contributed to the family, while some were shared with his private squad.
"What about you, Kevin and Lance?" Trevon asked his two bodyguards.
"We must reject young master offers. I have reached this rank at this age. Also, my cultivation technique still allowed me to reach Peak Rank 1." Kevin rejected Trevon offers.
For some cultivator, changing a cultivation technique was too time-consuming. They might get old without returning to their previous Rank.
"I..." Lance was at the dead end. He was still young, unlike Kevin. The young warrior was also still in Middle Rank 1. This was unlike Kevin, who was in Top Rank 1. Also, the biggest reason he joined the McArthur family was to get a better cultivation technique.
[Is the young master's offer good?] He was confused.
"What? You don't want it?" Trevon asked.
[Just agree!] Jonathan said to Lance in the spiritual sense.
[What is the technique about?] Lance asked Jonathan. While he couldn't ask for everything based on a cultivator code, he could ask for general detail.
[It's...] Jonathan was shocked. He could not change his knowledge into words.
[What's wrong?]
[I don't know. I know the cultivation technique in detail, but I don't know how to say it.] Jonathan was very afraid. He didn't make an additional contract. Yet he couldn't speak about the cultivation technique.
Lance became more afraid. "I will need time to think, Young Master." He answered Trevon. "It is not easy to change cultivation technique."
"Ok." Trevon didn't want to beg for giving cultivation technique. He believed the one modified by the Rabbink would not be normal. [There had been nothing normal with this Rabbink.] Trevon thought. Besides, he needed to do some Master Rabbink quest to unlock a cultivation technique that suited Lance if he agreed.
"Fine. Let us call it the day." Trevon returned from the gallery.
He took a dinner at a crowded seafood restaurant. Then, he visited some fruit merchants just to try to change his quest, but it was failed. At last, no one harmed during the mission. Only a smiling merchant slept on the floor again.
He continued to use his Scout skill sparely before he ended the day after painting for a bit in Grand Master Vale's house. He also cleaned some boxes from Uncle Bowman.
He didn't forget to get a trouble from the toublemeter and got a fallen tree. It was very dangerous.
At night he read some novels before he fell asleep.
