Hit the Road, Jack! : Hit Jack, Man of the House!

One may think Jack Hooligan's working issues would be solved once he reached a certain threshold on his mental resistances and skills.

And indeed, he was more than capable of working now.

The only problem is that he just didn't want to!

Jack would even feel good while working, but, most of the time, he just enjoyed being free most of the time.

[- Babe, I'm back!]

- Welcome back hon!

- Daddy!

As he teleported to his dungeon's inner quarters, his two sons came to greet him, it's eyes full of expectancy.

Of course, they stopped a little bit before jumping on him, since he wasn't on his Ancient Red Dragon form - but on his human one.

[- Hey you two!]

Of course, the first thing he did after seeing his children was to transform. Then, the two jumped on his chest and they frolicked around for a bit.

- How did it go? - Elicia came from the treasury while in human form. She had been working on Dragon King's Island (2)'s internal affairs.

In these 30 years, the Island had actually grown quite a bit, and Jack's and Elicia's position as rulers had become more and more a matter of fact.

Of course, most of the people from the Player generation saw each other as peers, people in the same level of existence, but ranks and social classes were bound to be formed once people began living on Another World for real.

For instance, there where those who possessed Private Property on Dragon King's Island, and also those who didn't - not because of lack of space, but because, even as Jack provided everyone with some living space, many people had sold their houses or fields in exchange for things - like huge mana loans in order to try and start a business… or just pay for gaming debts.

So, social disparity began to appear. Or course, as Jack's dungeon was a whole island - and one in which building structures was almost devoid of costs (only mana was necessary), some social care places had been built - like communal houses.

And as mana would recharge eventually for everyone, those places would charge only a minimum fee in exchange of lodging. So, extreme poverty would be avoided.

Still, it was a sight to behold as some wealthy people needed hundreds of High Class Mana Crystals in order to store all of their mana wealth, while others could barely buy food with the mana they naturally produced every day.

In this kind of environment, people like Jack who had unbelievably large mana pools and mana regeneration were amongst the top minority, and Jack himself didn't stop himself from getting more mana from his subjects through dungeon-exchange bonuses.

One may think that, in this kind of environment, mana would eventually become something so widespread inflation would ensue.

However, items in Another World weren't eternal. They had durability values, would get damaged with use, and so on. One-use only items, as the name implies, would be useful only once, and food and drinks would usually be better brought from people who had farms and breweries.

Had it been not for Patch 31, then things may have developed in a different direction, but Another World had been programmed to be fair in terms of economics.

Such being the case, Jack and Elicia counted not only as the Rulers of the Island, due to the dungeon being theirs, but also as the pinnacle when it came to wealthy people.

Indeed, Jack's treasury had become so large he decided to enlarge it multiple times already, and it now had a recreation area where he and Elicia could dig for treasures (an excellent game for dragons and wyrmlings), multiple raw gold chambers, a gold lava-powered foundry to preserve ready-to-go molten gold, amongst other items.

Had him the nerve to turn all of that into mana, and probably no one in the world would have as much as him - not even people at the Demon Kingdom.

That is not to mention that most people would require his help to level up in this world filled with dangers - had it not been for his Training Dungeon were players could safely slay monsters for the exp, and they would forever be hindered by their low Main Levels - unable to increase the amount of skills they could purchase, no matter how much they trained and used the abilities they already possessed.

As time flew by, the number of favors people owned both of them increased greatly, as well as the amount of respect they, thus, received.

That is not to mention the case of the NPCs which gained souls - those would slowly lose some of the NPC mannerisms, but as dungeon-spawn themselves, it wasn't long before some of the reincarnated kept referring to Jack as "master".

In the end, what that meant was that, obviously, Estate-Related matters would be grandly affected by him.

[- The same as always. They couldn't come to a conclusion and asked me if I would concede again.]

- And?

Jack looked at his children.

[- I refused.]