Chapter 93: Preparing For My Therapeutic Outdoor Relaxation

In a world where wilderness spans almost the majority of the continents. Only a small portion of the land has a sign of civilization as most were overrun by soulless creatures of destruction.

These creatures are called Grimm by the locals and have gone unchallenged since the dawn of civilization. They had grown used to their position as the dominant predator as the entirety of the species, this is especially true as farther you leave from civilization.

However, on one particular day. This apex predator finally meets their match. The land trembles and quakes as battle of grand proportion between the Grimm and a Legion of Undying wraiths sweep through the land and exterminate every where they went. Even the great Grimm like Megoliath turned tails as giant thrice its height, slammed down great cleaver and crushed it like rotten tree trunks.

On that fateful day, the soulless creature named Grimm learned the emotion called fear. Meanwhile the legion of wraiths vanished like an illusion that never existed.

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"Ugh… hangovers are terrible." Ray managed to utter before he vomited again.

Meanwhile, behind the tall grass and shrubberies are a pack of Beowolves that was previously displaced by the Tremble. Yes, the locals actually named the incident Tremble for the singular reason that the entire continent tremble in the wake of the Legion of Undying, become enraged and berserk in response to Ray's emotion and start a great massacre on the Grimm.

The endest of the Beowolves pack unlike the rest of the pack have armor of bones primarily on its head and body and significantly larger build. It made a low growl, commanding its underlings to set an ambush while one of them became the bait.

If zoomed from the Beowolves pack and Ray, there are a great number of Grimm that are attracted to Ray. What attracts these monsters is negative energy and the soul itself. Since Ray's soul is a perpetually and infinitely regenerating soul. Ray's soul is basically like a pack of blood in a pond filled with thousands of starving piranhas. Attracting them even from dozens of miles away.

Then the pack of Beowolves sprung out of the tall grass to attack Ray, thinking he is an easy prey and followed by other Grimm. But before they could even enter Ray's vision. They all died without knowing why.

Multiple rhombus eyes, 72 to be exact, had appeared without Ray summoning them and worked autonomously to saveguard him while he was recovering from a bad hangover.

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Half an hour later.

I regret not making a perfect body when I create a vessel for myself. But eh. I am the one that wants a body that can get drunk without needing to worry about my body detoxifying while I am still trying to get drunk.

Anyway, I am hungry and there isn't any trace of civilization anywhere in 100 miles radius. Creating food out of mana with my ability is possible but I want a proper food that is cooked. I whined internally before founding a brilliant idea.

I just need to find where is my Vessel in this world and surely he must be near civilization.

I did just that and found myself really at the northwest corner of the world while my vessel is somewhere down southeast near the center of the continents. Thanks to my powerful spiritual might, covering the entire world with my senses is possible and scanning an entire continent is easier as I lock on the coordinates and open a portal into a city that I found.

"City of Vale huh…" I recite the name after accessing the Akasha and read the necessary information I need about this world. I also suppress my ambient spirit power from releasing since that attracts the Grimms apparently.

I walk out the back alley and into the street as I beeline toward shops that sell foods. I order some greasy food like burgers and fried chicken then top with fruit ice smoothie. Odd choice of drink but I really do love fruit smoothies especially mango ones.

I paid with these Lien I Traced and sat down to enjoy the food while thinking what I should do next. I came to this world without purpose other than to escape and relax. To be worry free as I enjoy life alone like I used to whenever I feel stressed prior to my second life.

Can't help but smile, remembering carrying a cooler box filled with beers to the seaside at night to drink alone while enjoying the breeze.

*Sigh*

It feels nostalgic now and I feel like wanting to do it. I mean, I came here alone to relax. This world is perfect as none stronger than me and the strongest is nothing but flies to my power. The two gods apparently killed themselves and were waiting to be revived by these artifacts. So, this is technically a godless world and no one can stop me even if I take the whole world away.

I continue to eat in silence as my mind already planned out my activity for the rest of the day. I prefer the night to the morning because I hate bright light from the sun and prefer the gentle light from the moon.

After making my mind, I quickly finish the food and go to a department store to buy some important equipment. I tick my mental list as I acquire the necessary tools.

Cooler box check…

Fishing rod and bait check…

Foldable outdoor chair check…

Camping lamp check…

Can't forget the insect repellent…

Although I could easily Trace this stuff. Spending time to choose and spending money to buy is also part of the experience. Even if the money is actually not the hard earned money from working 9 to 6 and 6 days a week.

Well, next is to sample a bunch of drinks so I can create them with my ability later.

I walked deeper into the city, through several winding streets and finally reached the apparently best club in Vale city, Junior's Club is the name.

Still afternoon and the club doesn't look like it's opened yet but it isn't closed either since I can sense people inside the club. Three within the club and more hidden in several places of this club and at the back which were another building. Not just a simple club it seems but meh, all I want is the good cocktails that the people recommend when I tried asking the locals.

I walked into the club and went straight to the bar while ignoring the weird and uncomfortable stare the people were giving me. Especially the hidden one that felt like they were about to jump out and attack.

(Junior Xiong PoV)

While I was preparing for the opening of the club later, a man suddenly went into the club. Not someone within Vale city for sure since I pretty much know each and everyone and each of their information down to what they eat and wear for each day. Well, maybe it's an exaggeration but I have plenty of information in short.

An outsider coming to buy information perhaps? Not unusual.

"Welcome. How may I help?" I greet them with a friendly voice while assessing this unknown person.

I had worked long enough in the underground that I learned a skill that is crucial for those that want to survive in that cesspool. I had learned to assess a person through their body language, their antics, way of speaking, posture, etc.

My assessment is that this man is dangerous. He had an air of aloofness without care for the world which normally exhibited only by people with obscene amounts of influence and power that they felt nothing in the world could be a threat to themselves. Besides that, he also has this sense of regality only shown by the old nobilities and kings.

Aloof, powerful, regal and still hiding something too. This is my assessment and it didn't look good at all. Who is he? A hidden son of Schnee? He has their trademark white hair and pale skin normally seen only in Atlas because of their weather.

"Mhm… The local recommended your club when I asked where they serve the best cocktails in Vale city. So, please make all your best drinks. I will pay however much you want." The man said and pulled out stacks of fat cash from his pocket and laid it on the table.

"Cocktails?" I tried to confirm if he is speaking in a cryptic message or something but no, this guy really just wants to test cocktails.

I mean, sure. He paid more than ten times the money for what he ordered, which was basically the entire menu.

So, I get to work and start mixing drinks and serve one after another while the man picks each up and genuinely evaluates each and finds which one he likes more. By the end of it, my hand felt sore mixing cocktails non stop. Should get a guy to help out with this job.

While he is trying the drinks, the twins walk up to him and surround him on both sides to try to engage in talk but the guy doesn't seem to be interested. Always ending the conversation in a few short words or just shrugging. Even their attempts to flirt were met with a wall which funnily enough made the twin indignant because of how blunt he said his words.

"Do you not find both of us beautiful?" The twin in white outfit and long hair asked.

The man looks at the older twin from head to toe while the girl proudly displays herself to impress him. But he just straight out said '3 out of 10' with a disinterested expression instead of saying yes or something. I almost dropped the shaker in my hand hearing this.

Never had the twins been humiliated as they were indeed great beauties. However they misunderstood Ray. The rating he gave is used to also measure people with godly or ephemeral beauty like literal goddesses, great heroines, etc. 3/10 is quite high already.

Naturally, the proud elder twin feels challenged and of course tries to prove him wrong but is mercilessly ignored by Ray who is not in mood to deal with women after he washed hand and wanna have his men only time.

"Melanie, the customer is obviously not comfortable. Please stop disturbing him." I quickly tried to salvage the situation when the man started to look annoyed. Then I serve the final cocktail which the man grabs and swirls it around to evaluate its smell and appearance before drinking it.

After that, he stood up and left immediately as if he was escaping the twin. Could it be that he is gay? Well, understandable if he found beauty like the twin to be not attractive.

"Uh, boss." The younger twin called me.

"Yeah?"

"These Liens are fake." Miltia said while showing a handful of the Liens that have the same serial numbers.

"Oi! Stop him!" I shout angrily for my hidden mens to jump out of hiding and stop that fuck boy from leaving. How dare he swagger in with fake cash and scam me off my drinks.

Melanie excitedly went to help the thugs stop Ray since she previously had no reason to lash out on him for humiliating her. But how she did.

"You better have an explanation boy." I growled as this is not the first time a con man attempted something like this. Acting like an important person and scamming my services.

"Tch you found out huh." The guy said while staring at Miltia annoyingly to find out his trick.

"Don't you dare look at Mil like that, trash. Dare act all high and mighty only to turn out everything was just empty air." Melanie said contemptuously and lashed out with a kick to incapacitate him but something unexpected happened.

The guy catches Melanie kicking effortlessly which shouldn't be possible because even if Melanie is not using her full strength on that kick, she should use half which are still strong enough to shatter bones without protection of Aura.

"Hmn? White? No, it's slightly greenish." They guy said distractedly as he caught a glimpse of something after catching Melanie's kick.

"Kyaa! You! Release me you shameless fiend!" She tried to retract her legs but found it to be stuck by an iron grip. Her legs won't budge as if they were stuck in dry cement.

The younger twin quickly came to help the elder one with red claws extending out her fist and slashed at the man but stopped by an invisible cocoon that turned visible when the claws almost touched his body and snapped the blades of the claws.

"Hey. I just need to pay right? You'll let me go after this." The guy asked and I nodded. "Yeah, you better pay up with real cash."

"About that, I don't have any. But hard money works too, right?" They guy said and legit pulled out a gold bullion from his pocket that shouldn't fit and tossed it to the countertop with a loud crash when it fell, showing its real metal.

I picked it up and checked it with a blade, trying to check if it's soft because gold is a softer metal and pure gold should create gash easily which it did! A 12 kg of high purity gold bullion!

"I can go now right?" The guy asked and I nod absentmindedly as I still look in disbelief.

"Thanks. You can keep the change." The guy said and let go of the twin that dropped to the floor as he left without turning back.

"That jerk! How dare he treat us like this!" The older twin grinding her teeth in anger before looking at me still gazed at the gold before I snapped out of it and coughed.

"Melanie. It's your fault for offending our VVIP customer. Next time please be more mindful." I lectured shamelessly and pocketed the gold bullion.

I'm poor right now after Torchwick kept getting my boys into jail and recently fixing my club that got wrecked by a crazy blondie.

For a customer with such deep pocket like that, I'll even call him father or grandfather if he wants and pay my respect to him as my ancestor.

(This is a Chinese cultivator joke.)

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