Starisk!

I once again realized how smart the Young Master Desmond is. I always trusted in my instinct when it comes to judging characters, but when the first time I have seen the Young Master, I couldn't feel anything but awe. It was as if I was looking at a Deity, instead of a man. I usually would feel a person's level of ambitions, insidiousness, goodwill, etc. Yet all I felt when I eyed that man was the presence out of this world.

The first time I have seen him, he was with the young lady. The girl I was searching for the last month appeared with the Young Master Desmond, and I had to stop them at the entrance because of my incompetence. I felt ashamed. Master Ivaylo was the person who saved my life when I was just a little boy. He clothed me, fed me. When I was growing up, he sent me to school his friend was running. Uni School of Ginhon Jade. I grew up with the best education money can buy, and awaken rare elements thanks to Master Ivaylo.

To help him, I sealed my powers and started to work in the guard force. When Master died, I didn't know what to do. Master ordered me to stay in the Guard Force and wait for his further instructions. When I learned how his daughter was treated in the family, I was about to raid into the clan. Yet before I could do anything, she fled from the city.

I submitted a petition to change my station and started to work at the entrance of the city. I was hoping to find out her whereabouts and save her, the last thing my Master left behind, the daughter she dotted, and cared more than his clan. But after waiting for so long, I couldn't find anything. Not a clue. It was as if she vanished into the thing air. But I had to find her. As I was about to go out and search in despair, she appeared with Young Master Desmond and his two sisters.

I couldn't tell them who I was, because it would give away my identity to Master Ivaylo's enemies. I was already used to work from shadows, and never take the credit. So I helped them as much as I can in exchange for gold worth a hundred times less than what it should take. And Young Master Desmond didn't fail me. I was helping him because of the Young Lady, yet he created something I could never dream of.

"Master Starisk, Plus Church exchanged one more item. They should be able to buy the formula next week." One of the accounters walked into my office and reported. We were at the crossroad would decide our organization's future. If I fail this, everything will be over for us.

"Un. How much IT Stars they have?" I asked while going over the papers he handed over. There were too many numbers for me to calculate swiftly, thus I asked the person directly.

"Plus Church had half of the amount, but their side accounts have close to half too," he answered. This was the genius of the Young Master Desmond. He limited the time of exchange to limit their capital, so he could milk all powers at the same time. If he hasn't done so, Plus Church would give away millions of worthless manuals in one day and buy the manual on the first day. But it would get Information Trove millions of worthless information. By limiting times of exchange, Young Master Desmond forced those powers to exchange higher tier information.

But, there was also an exploit in this plan. IT Stars could be exchanged between people. Most of the powerhouses had more than one accounts, and they were exchanging with multiple of them each and every day. Most of them already close to buy the formula, but the most ambitious one was Plus Church. They had created 5 different accounts by using their side companies and were already close to the amount needed.

"Send a notification to every cardholder in the city that the price of the Body Tempering Potion Formula will be reduced," I said while admiring the Young Master Desmond's schemes. He already notified me of what would happen. All I had to do was execute his plans to T.

"To how much?" The man standing in front of my desk looked at me with his pupils expanded. He wasn't expecting me to say such a thing, especially when Young Master Desmond was absent.

"1 IT Star above this number," I said and pointed to the number on the report he brought in. It was the amount Plus Church had. By increasing it once, we would force them to exchange once more without letting them monopolize the formula.

"Excuse my boldness, Master Starisk, but you are not permitted to change the price of that item." He said while loosen his collar.

"What about now?" I flashed the token Young Master Desmond left behind before he left for his private business. "Go and execute my order when people of Plus Church come. Take them to an isolated room immediately and sent the message without further ado. Wait for other powerhouses to arrive. When everyone is here, sell them all together. Then let the person from Plus Church leave. Understand?"

"Yes, sir." He said and left to execute my plan. Young Master Desmond was a great man. He already predicted their moves before they even thought about them. I knew that people of Plus Church were coming to the Information Trove with an Epic Tier Manual. I knew their plan of mass selling it after buying it from us, but they were meant to fail because we had the greatest mind in the universe on our side. There was no way for us to lose.