Chapter 415: Buying the neighborhood
The soldiers accepted the Time Stim from Atlan and processed the paperwork on their tablets. After a few seconds, they looked towards Atlan and gave him the good news.
"Congratulations, you are now the proud owner of this house," he said.
The woman and the chubby man couldn't help but crash out once they heard that.
"That's unfair!" the woman screamed.
"How is that possible?" asked the chubby man, his anger visible from the jiggling of his fatty neck. "We already processed the paperwork for the purchase of this house. No one should be able to buy it back!"
The reason why the woman and the chubby man were so conceited was because they thought that the house was already a done deal. After all, the woman's husband was a very famous Pre-Intern level Savior who was part of the leaderboard of Rising Saviors.
That was the reason they were even able to purchase the house ahead of time. They used the woman's connections so that they would be able to purchase the house that she wanted.
She even processed the paperwork, and only had to give out the necessary Soul Time before she could fully get the house for herself. Your next chapter awaits on My Virtual Library Empire
"My husband is a famous Savior, far ahead of these two! How come they could get the house instead of me?! Do you know who you are offending right now?" screamed the woman to the soldier.
But the soldier just awkwardly scratched his head. After processing the paperwork, the soldier saw something impossible about the unassuming youth right next to Miss Lizzie.
"According to his profile, this young gentleman here has a priority rating of 1, meaning he has the same privilege as the top Specialists in the City," said the soldier.
The chubby man and the woman's jaws dropped on the ground. They couldn't believe that the young man they were berating was actually such a big shot.
"That doesn't make sense! I don't know him at all. How is he a top priority?!" they both screamed.
The soldier looked at Atlan, silently asking him if it was okay to reveal his identity. To which, Atlan just shrugged his shoulders and gave a nod.
The soldier then respectfully pointed at Atlan and said, "This young man here is Atlan, the Star Porter of Genesis City."
Upon hearing that, the chubby man and the woman finally shut up. Now that they knew who he was, they found no courage to speak up any further. After all, the Star Porter was very famous for all of his talent as an up-and-coming Savior.
Now, they finally knew the reason why the City allowed Lizzie to buy her house back using Atlan's Soul Time. The City would definitely favor the Star Porter compared to a Pre-Intern unknown Savior.
The woman bit her fingernails in annoyance. She couldn't believe how her pride was utterly shattered by this one interaction. She thought she was berating some unknown loser from the City, but as it turned out, she was messing with someone she shouldn't have messed with from the beginning.
The chubby man, upon seeing his client's bad mood, tried to cheer her up by consoling her mood.
"It's okay, Madam. There are still plenty of high-priced properties in this area. To be honest, this house is kind of the worst house in this neighborhood. It's actually a good thing that you won't be buying this piece of garbage," the chubby man said.
Even though they were just about to buy this property, the chubby man went to great lengths to try and disparage it to the woman. He was afraid that the woman would back out of their agreement and refuse to buy another house because of this.
The chubby man really wanted that commission. He wanted to be rich in Soul Time!
"Hmph…you're right. Now that I think about it, this house does suck. Let's quickly get out of this garbage dump and find a much better house," the woman said, not forgetting to smirk at Lizzie with malice.
Atlan would have let them go if they had just gone quietly. But after being so rude to Lizzie, they brought this onto themselves.
"Wait a minute," said Atlan. "Soldiers, I'll buy this whole neighborhood. How much will it take?"
The woman and the chubby man both immediately turned back and stared daggers at Atlan. They couldn't believe he would say something so ridiculous. They even started to berate him because of his stupidity to try and lie to them.
"Ha! Do you really think you can buy this entire neighborhood? You know how that much costs?"
"Young man, I know it's good to brag about your Soul Time, but lying about it is too much!" said the chubby man.
Atlan ignored them and just looked at their soldiers. He waited for them to tell him the price to buy this entire neighborhood.
But the soldier once again didn't know what to do. He didn't know if Atlan was serious or not.
However, since he was asked, he had to answer.
"It costs around…100,000 years of Soul Time," the soldier said, not even believing that he uttered such an unbelievable amount of Soul Time.
"See? Who could even afford that? Surely not this young man. Soldiers, please arrest this young man for even trying to suggest that he had enough time to buy this whole neighborhood," the woman said to the soldiers.
The soldier looked towards Atlan again and saw him have a casual attitude towards everything.
"Is that Time Stim enough to store a hundred thousand Soul Time," Atlan asked.
And upon realizing he was serious, the soldier immediately shook his head. "No, sir. This Time Stim is not rated to transfer a hundred thousand years. You would have to visit the HeadQuarters yourself to transfer the required Soul Time to the city.
However, we do have a Soul Time verifier, allowing us to verify that you do have the needed funds to buy the entire neighborhood."
The chubby man and the woman both looked at Atlan. "Stop this now, young man. You don't want to get humiliated for lying about such things, right?"
Instead, Atlan just gave the soldiers his hand voluntarily, waiting for them to verify that he did have enough Soul Time.