Chapter 14 - Super Nice Guy

Chapter 14: 14 - Super Nice Guy

The sudden voice of Principal Adrian, coming from far too close, startled King into reacting. His hand tightened around the sword, one foot taking a long step forward before he turned his body in the same direction as the sword swing.

King himself really had no intention of fighting, but this was completely a natural reflex. After receiving basic swordsmanship experience from the system, King’s body had been constantly adapting to his new way of thinking, which was why he reacted like this.

King’s lightning-fast and completely unexpected sword strike was actually caught cleanly between Adrian’s index finger and thumb.

There was not the slightest hint of surprise on Adrian’s aged face. At this moment, he did not even look at King, only staring at the Heavenly Dao Sword in its rusty form.

"Why are you using a rusty sword like this? If you don’t want to reforge it, I can give you a rank IV sword."

Principal Adrian’s words were completely well-intentioned, but combined with his facial expression and the effortless way he had just neutralized the slash, they made King feel like he was being insulted.

First, he felt insulted about his strength. Second, he felt insulted for being poor. Third, he felt that even the Heavenly Dao Sword had been insulted, even though this was truly a divine weapon.

It seemed that King’s arrogance at this moment was directly proportional to his sensitivity. Even someone’s unintentional action could make him think that person was insulting him.

"Hmph, a lowly thing like you actually dares to pity me? I don’t need charity from you. As for Iris, do you really think she is qualified to teach me?"

As soon as he finished speaking, King was about to put away the Heavenly Dao Sword and turn his face in another direction to continue watching the battle in the sky, but Adrian’s two fingers were holding it too tightly, making it impossible for him to pull the sword back.

King’s face turned slightly red from humiliation. He felt like Adrian had just stood there without moving, yet had somehow slapped him across the face with an invisible hand.

King’s series of over-the-top reactions left Adrian stunned as well. If he had not already been so used to Iris’s arrogance, he really would have beaten King up.

"Since when did a rank IV sword become charity? I don’t know if the market price has changed, but I remember it used to cost at least nearly ten million dollars."

As a principal, Adrian had extremely good emotional control. He quickly forgot the unpleasant feeling from earlier and continued speaking.

For someone as ’ordinary with nothing special’ as King, the moment he heard that he had just missed out on millions of dollars, his heart felt like it had been stabbed with a knife.

How much money was that? Not to mention millions, he had never even had tens of thousands of dollars in cash in his bank account.

Seeing King’s face suddenly turn purple like pig liver, Adrian’s eyes lit up. When dealing with a poor person who lacked knowledge like King, giving him money could move him more than giving him anything else.

For the most powerful principal in the world like Adrian, what did money even count as? As long as he wanted it, he could get as much money as he wanted.

King was a treasure. Although he had not shone brilliantly yet, this treasure had only appeared less than an hour ago.

Using money to buy the favor of the strongest cultivator in the future was simply an investment with no better return.

While Adrian was thinking, King’s expression grew worse and worse. All that money that had almost reached his hands had been stupidly thrown away by him, while the Heavenly Dao Sword was still stuck between Adrian’s two fingers, and he could not get it back.

Suddenly, King felt like this world was trying to show him who was boss. When he had just appeared, he had been acting cool with the magnificent power from the system, but now he felt just as miserable.

Adrian suddenly let go of the sword tip, then put his hand into his pocket and took out a black card before handing it to King. This sudden action made King’s brain freeze because he could not believe he was suddenly being given money.

The stronger his reaction was, the more it proved how short of money he had been before. Adrian’s investment would have a harder time losing money than winning the lottery.

"You’re a reader, right? You haven’t been in this world for long, so you probably don’t have any money yet, right? That won’t do. Your experience will inevitably be negatively affected, and I can tell from your impressive bearing that you wouldn’t resort to stealing.

I’m always staying in the academy, so there’s really nowhere to use this black card, and it would be such a waste, so could you help me use it? There’s no password, just swipe it, and the payment will go through."

It was obvious that Adrian was giving King money, but the way he said it did not sound like charity at all.

From beginning to end, he was clearly flattering King and asking King to help him spend his money rather than giving him money.

This request sounded completely unreasonable, but it gave King the feeling that he was truly being treated as an honored guest by one of the most powerful men in this world.

"Ahem, since you’ve already put it that way and I still refuse to accept it, I’d really be lacking in social manners. Don’t worry, just leave your money to me to spend for you. I can’t let the money you worked so hard to earn sit uselessly in the bank forever."

King cleared his throat and acted reluctant, but the expression on his face, desperately trying to contain the happiness that could explode at any moment, showed the exact opposite.

Above Adrian’s head, King had now ’planted’ an invisible flag reaching all the way to the sky. Written in huge letters on that enormous flag fluttering in the wind were the words ’Super Nice Guy’.

[Congratulations, master!]

[With nothing but the bearing of a noble reader, you have obtained a seemingly endless source of money from one of the most powerful figures in the world.]

[No one has ever achieved such a feat before, and no one will ever surpass it in the future. Even if this world’s protagonist sees you, all he can do is bow his head...]

The system had been silent earlier because it could not teach King armament force projection, yet now that it had a chance, it immediately started talking nonstop.