James gritted his teeth and clenched his fists tightly, holding back his excitement as there were other people around.
'Did I just become a millionaire like this?'
James shook his head as he came back to his senses at Natasha's voice.
"Everything's in order. Congratulations on your new car."
At a distance, the saleswomen who had mocked him earlier stood frozen, their faces showing a mixture of shock and regret as they watched the deal finalized.
James paid them no attention as he gently patted Kai's shoulder. "Let's get the keys and head home."
Before they left, James stopped and looked at Natasha and Scarlett with a smile. "I'll be back soon to buy more cars."
…
The moment they drove out of the dealership, James' phone buzzed. It was the same number he had called earlier to lift his spending limit.
'Why are they calling back now?' he thought to himself as he looked at his phone and decided to answer the call in case there was something wrong with his money.
A minute later, he sighed softly, feeling relieved because he thought too much.
Apparently, the bank detected the money just now and offered him to come to the bank and talk about an offer for more perks since he was basically a millionaire now.
However, James declined it and said that he would come when he has time in the near future, as he was going to be busy for a while.
"Brother, can you explain what's going on now?" Kai asked while driving the car with a joyful expression.
James chuckled. "Let's just say… the more money I spend on people close to me, the richer I become."
"Huh? Is there even such a thing like that?" Kai raised an eyebrow and gave his brother a glance.
"Of course. Why else would I drop all our savings just to buy you a car?" James smirked.
"Then… how much did you get back for spending a hundred grand on me?" Kai asked curiously while thinking that even if they got 10% more, it would've been $10,000, and that amount has already reached a crazy amount that he could've never imagined getting in an instant.
"Guess." James leaned back with a grin.
"Is it a lot?" Kai asked again.
"Yes." James nodded.
"Uh… ten percent? Maybe $110,000?" Kai guessed nervously.
"Much more than that." James shook his head.
Kai opened his eyes wide. "What!?"
"$150,000?"
"Still way off."
"$250,000?" Kai tightened his grip on the steering wheel nervously.
"Higher." James laughed happily.
"Don't tell me it's half a million dollars…" Kai gulped while unconsciously slowing down the speed as he glanced at his brother with trembling hands.
"Double that." James responded with a wide smile.
"WHAT!" Kai was surprised and stepped on the gas pedal suddenly, surprising both of them.
"Watch out!" James grabbed the steering wheel just in time to avoid a collision.
Kai quickly slowed down, his heart pounding. "S-sorry… I was just too shocked."
"Try not to kill us before we enjoy the money, okay?" James chuckled and smacked Kai's head lightly.
"Brother, why don't you buy more stuff, like a nice house or something? At that time, won't you get $10,000,000? Then $100 million… and it won't be long before it reaches $1 billion?" Kai rubbed his head sheepishly and suggested his brilliant idea excitedly, only for James to smack his head again and snort.
"Do you think it's that easy? The tenfold return was a mission reward because it was my first time spending on someone. It's not some endless money glitch."James shook his head helplessly at his brother's idea.
'I wish it would be that simple. At that time, won't I become the richest man in this world in no time?'
"Anyway, things are not as simple as that since there are some restrictions such as cooldown, etc."
James then explained to Kai about them since he could trust his younger brother with it.
Subsequently, he checked his personal information before upgrading his stats and rank, as he now had the capital to upgrade his strength, unlike before.
[Name: James Morgan]
[Wealth: $1,000,690] [System Points: 1,000,000]
[Age: 21]
[Race: Human]
[Rank: F]
[Skills: – ]
[Stats]:
Strength: 44 | Agility: 34 | Physique: 40 | Sense: 16 | Mana: 11 | Magic: 12
The reason why his strength, agility, and physique stats were higher than the others was because whenever he received free stats from gathering money by working his ass off, he always put them on these three stats since they could help him become stronger physically.
Now that the system had changed, the way he upgraded his rank also changed accordingly.
There were two ways to become stronger by utilizing the system:
First, upgrading the stats and rank using cash.
Second, upgrading the stats and rank using system points.
However, for an unknown reason, James found out that it was cheaper using the system points to upgrade the rank instead of cash because if you want to upgrade it using cash, the amount becomes doubled.
Not only that, before the system got upgraded, he only needed to pay $1,000 to increase a single stat of his choice, but now it had become $2,000 or 1,000 system points.
"System, upgrade all stats to max using system points!" James ordered in his heart.
The reason why he didn't want to use his money was definitely not because he didn't want to ruin his status as a millionaire, but he just felt that it would be cheaper to use the system points instead of the money.
[Ding! 137,000 system points have been successfully deducted.]
[Ding! Your Strength stat has been increased to 49.]
[Ding! Your Agility stat has been increased to 49.]
[Ding! Your Physique stat has been increased to 49.]
[Ding! Your Sense stat has been increased to 49.]
[Ding! Your Mana stat has been increased to 49.]
[Ding! Your Magic stat has been increased to 49.]
Without waiting for long, James ordered the system again.
"Upgrade my rank to E-rank Awakener using system points!"
[Ding! 150,000 system points have been successfully deducted due to a 50% discount as your first upgrade in breaking through to the next level.]
[Ding! Congratulations to the host! You have successfully broken through to E-rank Awakener!]