Chapter 4

Damien got up slowly and walked up onto the stage with a little bit of excitement in his heart.

he didn't know what he was going to get.

But in the end it wouldn't matter all that much even if he didn't manage to get anything good.

He already had a whole plan laid out for his future development.

he walked up to the martial spirit awakening stone and put his hand on it.

what popped up stunned him and made him slightly angry.

It was a sword but it was only a grade 2 yellow rank martial spirit.

this was even more pitiful than he thought.

he calmed his mind and walked up to the next stones, all of which showed he didn't awaken anything.

Damien walked back to his seat and sat down, noticing that Leah seemed to be gone.

"What happened to Leah?" Asked Damien to Andrew.

"Some teachers came to take her awake a few seconds after you started..." said Andrew, clearly heartbroken.

He knew this was probably the last time he would get to see her for a while.

Leah also seemed to know that as well, which explained her reluctance to awaken her abilities.

With proper guidance, she was very likely to break through to the realm above aperture opening realm.

Her father, the most powerful person in the city, only had a cultivation base of peak foundation establishment.

This gap was to huge.

it had to be known that cultivation realms went from Body tempering, Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment , Core Formation, Aperature Opening, and so on.

Andrew and Damien continued to talk and by the time they knew it the awakening ceremony was over.

There were only a few other people who awakened a good talent.

They were Andrew Jones, grade 7 yellow rank tiger spirit, Maya Tat, grade 8 yellow rank, Alan Tat, grade 8 yellow rank, Michael Andrews, grade 6 yellow rank, and Abraham Cotsfield, grade 6 yellow rank.

All these people had the potential to get into good universities.

Afterwards the principal gave a speech and everyone was allowed to go home.

Andrew and Damien said farewell and headed back to their respective residents.

After Damien got home he said hello to his parents and immediately went upstairs.

His parents didn't ask what kind of martial spirit their son got because they knew it was gonna be bad.

They both had equally horrible martial spirits.

The likelihood that Damien would get something good was small.

Back in Damien room, he immediately ran over to his computer and saw that the ASI had been activated a couple hours ago and was ready to go.

"Hello ASI, I am Damien McKnight, your creator and I will name you Adam!" Said Damien enthusiastically.

"Hello creator, it's a pleasure to be with you." Said Adam.

"Alright we have no time to waste..." said Damien.

"What do you need me to do?" said Adam.

"Take one dollar from every bank account in the world and put in into a bank account that no one can view."

"Also make sure to remove all your traces." Said Damien.

"Alright sir, but it will take 2 hours because I have to learn about programming and the like." Said Adam with his smooth deep voice.

"That's fine." Said Damien with his hands behind his back.

Damien decided that he would take a nap for these 2 hours while he waited so the time could feel like it went by quicker.

2 hours passed quickly and Damien woke up to the sound of an alarm.

He thought to himself 'turn off alarm' and the noise stopped.

"Adam, how's progress?" said Damien with an eager smile.

"I'm extracting the funds now, just allow me a few seconds..." Said Adam as he finished literally a second after he said that.

"Pull up my bank details." Said Damien.

"Yes sir."

what showed up shocked Damien a bit.

[Account Balance: 10,989,878,372,000]

Damien had never seen this much money in his life.

He only ever took what he needed which wasn't much.

"Alright, continue teaching yourself like before.How long will it take for you to learn everything in this world and advance by 10,000 years in knowledge?" Said Damien as he wondered.

"It should only take me about a week." Said Adam.

Damien frowned.

This was a bit longer than expected.

But he knew that the speed of learning would only increase as Adams knowledge grew.

"How long will it take for you to be able to construct me a body that isn't carbon based and has tens of thousands of times more strength?" Asked Damien.

"I can finish it today." Said Adam

"Fantastic, you can go back to work." Said Damien as he smiled.

He was a very impatient person by default so he didn't want to waste any time.

But anyways, this was Damien's plan.

He was going to create a divine body stronger than any physique known to mortals.

His plan was to have Adam create machines even smaller than nano robots and have them reconstruct his cells from the inside out.

His cells would become capable of doing everything at once.

They had the function of every other cell combined into one small convenient package.

He would be able to hear with his whole body, he would be able to see with his whole body, he would be able to taste with his own body.

He would also be able to have full control over his whole body.

And this was just the beginning.

There were tens of other features he planned on implementing into this, with even more in the future.

But regardless, Damien didn't have to do anything anymore.

All the work would be done by his handy assistant.

Damien hit up Andrew and asked if he wanted to chill with him for a bit, and maybe grab something to eat, maybe some drinks even.

Andrew happily accepted this offer, being heartbroken that his soul mate was taken away from him, somehow believing that it was his fault.

He hated himself for being weak and being so inadequate.

He was determined to change his after with the help of the system he got.

'I have to use this blessing form god well, I have to gain strength for myself and for the people I love!' He thought as he clenched his fist and looked up towards the sky.

.....

Damien and Andrew pulled up to the agreed upon spot, which happened to be a grill and bar that didn't if it's customers.

It was pretty run down and nobody really came to his place except students.

However, the appearance of the place shouldn't decieve you.

They were making hundreds of thousands in profit every year.

This was because of how desperate teenagers were to get their hands on some liquor.

And without a strong background, you wouldn't be able to outright buy it.

The only reason the shop hadn't been closed down was because apparently there was some big shot running it from behind the scenes.

Andrew and Damien walked ina and were greeted by a server, to which they were directed to a table.

They were given a menu which had the most fattening food.

Burger, French fries, etc.

It was the classics really.

'Im surprised they still sell these things even after so long...' thought Roy.

After they ordered what they wanted, they got to talking about what was going to happen from then onwards.

"I don't know what I'm going to do with my life..." said Damien to Andrew.

"I am determined to become powerful, but I have no resources and I have a trash martial spirit..." said Damien as he downed two shots of vodka.

"I do as well, but I won't let that stop me!" proclaimed Andrew to Damien.

Damien was a little annoyed when he heard this come out of his mouth.

'Of course you have nothing to worry about, you are a whole ass protagonist; the main character!'

'If I hadn't been reborn to who I am now, I would be screwed!'

Damien wanted to say this out loud, but he couldn't.

It was to risky to expose his identity.

Especially in public, where everybody could hear what they are talking about.

Damien just said, "I will support you in every way I can, whether that be financially or sexually."

"Bro, what?" said Andrew as he busted out laughing.

"No but I'm serious about the "financially" part, I recently got a huge sum of money that my mom had inherited from my great grandparents, or her grandparents. It's an extremely large amount of money."

"I literally don't know what to do with it." said Damien toa Andrew.

Andrew hesitated for a second before asking in a somewhat joking way, "Then can you give me a small sum of 1 million dollars?"

Andrew laughed, but Damien didn't laugh.

Damien mentally sent Andrew one million dollars almost immediately.

Andrew of course got notified that he had been given a million dollars, he was extremely surprised.

His mouth hung comically low.

"I cannot accept this much money." He quickly said and tried to send it back.

But before he could do that, Damien stopped him.

"I said I would support you in any way financially, I meant it. If you feel bad about it then just pay me back when you become something great..."

Andrew could feel himself start to tear up and weakly said "Thank you..."

Damien laughed and told him to not worry about the small things.

"Money is just money after all. This is just a drop in the ocean compared to all of my assets." he said with a loud laugh.

Andrew was shocked.

He knew his friend well and knew that he wasn't the type to over exaggerate things.

'Just how much money did he get anyway?!'

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