Starlight Royal Academy, Discipline Department.
At this moment, quite a few students had already gathered inside the hall.
A muscular young man covered in blood was kneeling in the center of the room. His right arm hung at an obviously unnatural angle, and dried blood still stained the corner of his mouth.
Bruno.
Standing opposite him was a young man of about eighteen years dressed in an ordinary black academy uniform.
Ryan.
He had black hair. His features were not exceptionally handsome, but he possessed a composure far beyond others his age.
Even under the gazes of numerous noble students around him, his expression remained calm.
[Name: Ryan Carter]
[Level: 18]
[Class: Swordsman]
[Talent: ???]
[Fate Evaluation: World Protagonist]
[Current Luck: Extremely High]
The moment Victor stepped into the Discipline Department hall, the system almost instantly displayed Ryan's information.
Victor was not surprised at all when he saw the words "World Protagonist."
Instead, it was the surrounding students who immediately quieted down after noticing his arrival.
"Victor's here."
"I heard he was the one who ordered Bruno and the others to attack Ryan."
"This should be interesting."
"Ryan just defeated a Level 19 Swordsman recently. Victor might have finally kicked an iron plate this time."
Whispers spread continuously.
Victor ignored them completely.
His gaze landed on Bruno.
Immediately afterward, another information panel appeared.
[Name: Bruno Kane]
[Level: 17]
[Class: Berserker]
[Talent: Low Grade Berserk]
[Potential Evaluation: A]
[Current Condition: Comminuted fracture of the right arm, minor rupture of the magic core.]
[Current Loyalty: 93]
[Fate Trajectory: Abandoned by Victor today. Seven days later, unable to afford treatment, his magic core completely collapses and he permanently loses his qualifications as a Professional.]
[Investment Value: Extremely High]
A Rank?
Victor raised an eyebrow slightly.
A lackey who had not even survived ten chapters in the original story actually possessed A Rank potential?
It seemed the so called original plot did not necessarily represent a person's true value.
Or perhaps, while the protagonist was surrounded by opportunities, the villain's side also contained talented people wasted by the plot.
"Young Master."
Bruno raised his head.
The moment he saw Victor, shame visibly flashed through his eyes.
"I'm sorry. I failed."
"I didn't expect that commoner's strength to be this great."
"Shut up." Victor interrupted him.
Bruno trembled slightly, his face instantly turning pale.
Quite a few students around them revealed expressions of "as expected."
Who did not know that Young Master Victor despised failures?
Bruno had been beaten into such a miserable state today.
Even if the Discipline Department did not expel him, he would probably never be allowed to follow Victor again.
Even Ryan frowned slightly, but in the next second, Victor had already walked up to Bruno.
"Can you stand?"
Bruno froze, his eyes widening in shock.
"Young Master?"
"I asked if you can stand."
Bruno gritted his teeth and pressed his left hand against the ground, trying to force himself upright.
But the moment he exerted strength, his face suddenly turned white.
Victor directly grabbed his shoulder.
"If you can't stand, stop forcing yourself."
The hall became noticeably quieter.
Bruno was completely stunned.
He had followed Victor for two years.
In his memory, his young master had never cared about such things.
Victor had already turned toward the instructor responsible for handling the incident.
"How much will the treatment cost?"
The instructor frowned slightly.
"His right arm can be treated. But his magic core has already cracked. He'll need at least a Tier Three Life Potion and a Core Restoration Potion."
"The total cost will not be less than eighty thousand gold coins."
Eighty thousand!
Quite a few commoner students secretly sucked in a breath.
That was practically more money than an ordinary family could earn in an entire lifetime.
Bruno's expression also completely dimmed.
His family was merely an ordinary knight household subordinate to the Alves Family.
There was no way they could afford that amount.
Victor's expression did not change in the slightest.
"I'll pay."
Two words!
The entire hall instantly fell silent.
Even the instructor froze for a moment.
Bruno suddenly raised his head.
"Young Master! This was my mistake. There's no need to spend that much money on me."
"You were injured while working for me."
Victor calmly glanced at him. "If I'm not even willing to spend eighty thousand gold coins on that, who would dare risk their life for me in the future?"
It was an extremely realistic statement.
There was not even much warmth in it.
Yet to Bruno, it was more direct than any words of comfort.
His fist clenched tightly. His eyes even reddened slightly.
[Ding!]
[You have made your first investment in Bruno Kane.]
[Investment Content: Treatment resources worth 80,000 gold coins.]
[Target detected to currently be at the lowest point of his life.]
[Target loyalty detected above 90.]
[Target possesses A Rank potential.]
[Calculating first investment multiplier...]
Despite seeing the screen, Victor still maintained a calm face.
In the next moment, the system notification abruptly refreshed.
[Congratulations, Host! You have triggered a 120x Return!]
[You have obtained investment rewards equivalent to 9,600,000 gold coins.]
[Please select the form of your return.]
[Option 1: 9,600,000 gold coins.]
[Option 2: High Rank Cultivation Resource Package.]
[Option 3: Special Talent Reward.]
Victor's breathing paused for half a second.
One hundred and twenty times?
Eighty thousand had directly turned into the equivalent of nine million six hundred thousand?
And he did not even have to take the return in gold.
He could convert it into something else?
At that moment, Victor finally understood just how ridiculous this system truly was.
Stealing the protagonist's opportunities?
Cultivating bitterly by himself?
Why bother with any of that when raising subordinates was this profitable?
Victor did not hesitate as he quickly made a pick.