Cheat Awakening

"Sir, this is your bank card. Currently, you have bronze-level privileges, the most basic our bank offers. With this level, you don't receive many noteworthy services, however, don't worry; upgrading your rank is very straightforward, and easy, as long as your account has sufficient credit, it will automatically be updated."

"By the way, would you like to recharge your card? You can visit our exchange counter over there and discuss any valuable items you might want to trade for credit," The receptionist girl explained with a beautiful smile, handing Clone Myne a random black metal card featuring a sun logo on the front and very small intricate runes engrave on the back.

"Oh, and if you want to check your balance or transfer money, simply infuse your card with mana. If you don't have mana, a drop of blood will also work. This is why we request a blood sample from you. The card is now linked to you, and only you can use it," The receptionist girl continued, noticing Myne's astonished expression and curiosity.

She understood that this country bumpkin had likely never seen such a thing before and quickly explained how to use it. After all, if he made a mistake outside and people discovered he didn't even know how to use his bank card, it would reflect poorly on the bank's reputation.

Upon hearing the girl's explanation, Myne quickly infused the card with a bit of mana. The sun logo in the middle of the card glowed in white light, and a large "0" appeared in its place. Below it, are two small brackets, the left one is empty and the right one has the word "Send" written in it were visible. Even a toddler could understand how to use such a simple interface, let alone Myne.

After comprehending how the card worked, Myne thanked the receptionist lady from the bottom of his heart. While she wasn't his type for certain reasons, she was overall a good girl. Not only did she not charge him anything for opening an account, but she also completed the process in a matter of minutes, demonstrating the bank's impressive efficiency.

"How can I help you, sir?"

Unlike the main reception area where most of the bank's work took place, and over the crowd, there were only a handful of people at the exchange counter. It didn't take long for Myne to get his turn.

"I would like to exchange something for credit. Could you provide me with some details or a catalogue of valuable exchangeable items?" Clone Myne didn't beat around the bush and went straight to business. He had limited time and wanted to gather as much information about this world as possible before it ran out.

"Certainly, here's the catalogue. It lists most of the items you can exchange for credit at the market price.

However, if you have something more valuable that isn't listed, feel free to show it to me, and I'll appraise it before giving you a fair price," The middle-aged receptionist lady replied with a bright ear-to-ear grin when she heard that Myne wanted to exchange items for credit and quickly presented him with a high-quality catalogue with colourful pages, which surprised him greatly.

After all, in his world, almost all books were black and white, even the covers were unremarkable and plain, and illustrations were often very simple randomly drawn by authors to grab the reader's attention. Seeing such a colourful catalogue with high-quality pages, he was once again amazed by the productivity level of this world.

Since he couldn't read the words written on the catalogue, Myne didn't linger on the cover and quickly opened it. Fortunately, it seemed that quite a few people were illiterate among bank customers, so the catalogue featured small pictures of everything in boxes, with details written in front of them and the price listed underneath, which is within range of a certain someone understanding range.

The first item listed in the catalogue was naturally the blue crystal, whose importance was evident from the fact that thousands of people were working day and night in the cave to extract it, and their numbers were continuously increasing. It seemed that the bank had collaborated with the church and encouraged locals to go into the cave and work hard to dig for these crystals.

Although the catalogue contained some details about these crystals, unfortunately, Myne couldn't understand any of them.

However, the price of the crystals was not as high as he had expected, which significantly reduced his desire to rob the warehouse in the cave. Three crystals were only worth one credit. No wonder that fat man dared to take an illegal toll in broad daylight under everyone's noses. Such cheap items were indeed not worth the trouble, so everyone simply ignored him.

Next, Myne quickly scanned the catalogue and discovered he could only exchange two or three items for credit. After all, most of the items in it were specialities of this world, so his world's items naturally didn't have general market value. These items were universal mineral currencies like gold and silver, but it seemed this world didn't have platinum, as there was no mention of it at all.

Phew, thankfully, considering I'm going to another world, my main body gave me some valuable things... It seems like I have seen some gold bars in my storage pouch, Clone Myne thought with a smile, giving his main body a thumbs up in his heart for his foresight.

Then he returned the catalogue to the receptionist lady, took out his storage pouch from his robe, and placed five palm-sized gold bars on the counter, making the middle-aged lady's eyes light up with excitement. It seemed she was going to receive a good commission from this deal.

As a professional, the lady didn't ask Myne for the source of the gold. She took out a palm-sized disk from her drawer and slowly waved it on top of the gold bars. As she did, a red light scanned the bars, and after all five were scanned, a number appeared on the other side of the disk.

"Sir, these five gold bars are of quite high quality, and we're willing to exchange them for 100 credits, 20 each. What do you think?"

Although gold was also a hard currency in this world, it wasn't as valuable as in his world due to the credit and banking system. Myne had seen the exchange rate of gold and, after calculating in his mind and finding that he wasn't losing much, so simply he nodded and placed his card in front of the lady.

She took out a palm-sized box-like thing, put his bank card into it, touched the disk to the box, then took out the card and handed it back to him with a bright smile.

Myne, who was watching everything with a dumbfounded expression, infused mana into the card. The previous 0 had now turned into 100, demonstrating the lightning-fast transaction speed, leaving him speechless. But since his work was done, after thanking the lady, he walked out of the bank while playing with his card and headed directly to a well-regarded, high-end tavern right in front of the bank.

After all, it was a well-known fact that if you wanted to gather basic and interesting information, there was no better place than a bar or tavern.

"Welcome, my lord. How may I help you?" A beautiful young girl in her early twenties, wearing a very short erotic maid dress, with black net stocking and a nice figure appeared in front of him out of nowhere. She spoke with a bright smile while making her ample chest bounce, instantly capturing Myne's attention.
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"I... I wanted to eat something delicious. If possible, give me a place where I can get a good view and fresh air while enjoying my meal," Myne replied without changing his expression. As an experienced player, he naturally wouldn't be shy just because dozens of pairs of eyes were staring at him.

He grabbed the enthusiastic waitress's waist, pulled her into his embrace, and stared at her with burning eyes while walking into the bar, earning a lot of hateful glares from some random nobodies.

However, the girl seemed used to it. She didn't care whether Myne was hugging her or touching certain places he shouldn't. She happily led him to a table beside the window from which he could see the busy street.

After taking Myne's order, which was nothing but telling her to bring what she liked the most as a beautiful girl like her taste shouldn't be bad, instantly raising his favorability a dozen points in her eye, after all, he had no idea what kind of food this world's people ate, so he can only use this kind of low-level tactic.

After which he put on a bored expression and started looking out the window lazily while leaning against the chair. This was obviously a facade to avoid attention, as his real focus was completely on the nearby people, trying to get some useful information.