Chapter 106 - 110

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"When the dungeon kills the adventurer permanently, he/she will be absorbed for whatever amount of resources they have. Dungeon Dollars, the armour he is wearing, his knowledge, and also his soul. Hence, Money, Matter, Magic and Soul." Yun disclosed more about the system's dungeon in the Dungeon World.

"You mean the system actually kills the adventurer and uses them to build my shop?" Jin was a little uneasy with the fact that his shop was somewhat built on the dead adventurers.

"Why are you feeling uncomfortable with that fact? The meat that you eat comes from animals too. You were born to consume. It is a primordial cycle that you cannot avoid. If you are unwilling to take part in this, I will stop talking right now and even help you erase this portion of your memory. You can be forever ignorant and continue with your life as an above average dungeon supplier." Yun stood up and folded her arms as she talked down to Jin.

She knew that this was, after all, his decision, but if he wanted to be an outstanding dungeon supplier, he had to acknowledge the fact that he had to do that by standing on a mountain of corpses. In addition, even if he had not fully realised it yet, a person can't just catch a monster and make them unconditionally loyal to Jin in dungeons just like that, and she had been blatantly hinting it to him for quite some time.

Jin paused for some time while Yun quietly stood there with her arms still folded, continuing to stare at him as she waited for his answer. He started to connect the dots between all that was happening. The system and Yun were slowly guiding him, rewarding him items generously so that he could grow and ultimately benefit the system. He was in fact just a cog in the system's works but if it was some consolation, a very large cog. However, as repayment for helping the system, the system would make him a stronger person that ran a better dungeon supplier.

He also remembered the hard times he had suffered being alone, having to care for himself. While it is true, his grandfather was a retired general but Ming did not spare Jin in any way. Ming made Jin worked for what he wants, and if Jin did not get it, it was his problem.

"You want a new computer? Work hard for it. Get it yourself. I am already paying for your electricity bills." "What you got bullied by bullies? Here, books are on the shelves. Go learn them and challenge them again. Come back to me again when you succeed." The flashbacks of hardship of trying to get back up without any help made Jin thought twice about refusing the system's orders.

Would he really want to have the system removed from him? This luxury when he could finally lay back in life and just work sufficiently hard enough for life to pass by? If he just listened to the system, he assumed everything would be just fine. He never thought that this thing would occur to him.

Separately, this might be a simple end goal: to be the number one dungeon supplier, but who knew when people with evil intentions would want his technology or threaten him or maybe even Zhen Qing if he employed her. He was not entirely oblivious to this matter as he started to notice the actions of King's Monster subtly react to the opening of his store.

For the first time ever, King's Monster, a mega dungeon supplier in Shenzhen business district was offering discounts. There were even forum users in Pandamonium that casually compared the recent amount of human traffic in King's Monster and Boss Jin's stores and said that King's Monster was seeing a lower human traffic than ever before.

Hence, he figured he needed the help of the system to get stronger by whatever means necessary. If he needed to build the shop on a mountain of monster and human corpses to protect himself and the ones he loved and had an interest in, then so be it....or that what he thought at that point.

Jin would also never forget how his childhood was torn away by the loss of his parents because they were not strong enough. How he had been ostracised by other kids because he was parentless. As he grew older, he even heard weird and bad rumours that his grandfather Ming was actually his father, that Ming probably knocked up a young prostitute or two and that therefore, Jin was just the result of an unwanted pregnancy.

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