Cosmic Patron System: 100X Return on Every Reward

[AN: This Chapter is a bit long, but it was necessary for better continuation of Chapters. ]

Just moments ago, he had painstakingly learned that Mythical rank was something that was even rare in Apex dimensions.

So, looking at a Mythical title was like a jolt. Suddenly, he felt, he was ready to undergo that excruciating pain again.

He immediately clicked on it mentally, a panel appeared in response with details.

[Title: The One Who Knows Beyond]

[Type: Cognition title/Unique]

[Rank: Mythical]

[Description: A forbidden title granted to the one who surpasses the cognitive limits imposed by their dimension and live. There are things you never meant to know, yet you do.]

’That pain sure felt like it was something forbidden,’ he remarked after reading the description, as his pain gradually subsided.

[Core Effects:]

1. True Sight (Passive)

• Any object, being or phenomenon the bearer lays eyes upon reveal a hidden layer of truth.

• It includes: True Name, hidden attributes/concealed states, weakness and structural flaws.

• The bearer cannot be deceived by ordinary illusion, concealment or falsified data.

• Information depth scales with bearer’s mental capacity.

2. Forbidden Insight (Passive)

• Grants the bearer access to knowledge beyond the dimensional limit.

• Automatically interprets: Sealed concepts; Lost or Ancient languages; corrupted data.

3. #@#*# Contact Protocol (Active)

• Allows the establishment of a link with #@#*#

• The name remain distorted unless hidden conditions are fulfilled.

[Passive Effects:]

• The bearer becomes a Cognitive Anomaly.

• Lower-tier concealment, illusion and system interference abilities may fail automatically.

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"The main thing about this title is probably the contact protocol but it is locked behind hidden conditions. Well, the other two will come in handy for sure," he commented after reading the effects of the title.

He thought of using True Sight on corpse of a goblin but he had to sleep in this room so he decided against that.

"Well, this was an unexpected and huge gain. Now, I had promised to put on a better show but for that I have to find a suitable dungeon first, probably Grade II," he decided as took out his phone and started searching for nearest White rank Grade II gates.

After searching for few minutes and going through information about multiple gates, he finally selected two gates.

"Emberfall Chasm and the Vanishing Wilds, one is more visual with lava and monsters and other is more about stealth and precision."

He started weighing the pros and cons of both dungeons in his mind. After few seconds, he decided which gate to enter.

"More visual is always better especially for starting channels," he stated as he channelled his inner streamer.

"Next, since I can’t copy talent and skills permanently, I have to make do with equipment and items."

"Let’s sell corpses and mana stone first, tomorrow morning. Then I will look into what I can afford in that budget."

After deciding on his itinerary for tomorrow, he looked at time. The clock was 40 minutes past 9, deciding to sleep a bit early to start fresh on his next day.

He settled himself comfortably in his bed, for the first time since he took the reigns of family in his hand, he won’t have to worry for tomorrow.

Till yesterday, even if he got time to sleep, he used to worry about next day and how he would earn enough to keep the family running for next day.

As he was lost in thought of tough times, a chime on the phone brought his attention.

JOB AVAILABLE!

In need of a worker for packaging of goods, non-hazardous.

Pay: 1500 Credits

Duration: around 5 hours

Would you like to accept the job?

[Y] / [N]

Watching the notification, his finger instinctively went towards yes. He barely stopped himself before clicking on it.

His lips parted as a smile appeared on his face, "If it had been just a day before, I surely would have accepted that. However, I already have plans for tomorrow, so I will be sleeping in."

After denying the job, he went on further to deactivate the alerts for job and put the phone down. Then he just closed his eyes, as his mind drifted to sleep.

Though a tiny part of him remained excited for all the events that would be occurring tomorrow, be it his 2nd stream or reward mentioned by Sandra.

However, the thing that he was looking towards the most was the hunt itself as he would take one more step towards his dream.

Next morning,

"Hello, Mr. Hunter, how long are you going to sleep?" Vanya called with sweet yet sharp voice.

"Brother, someone else is raiding your gate, wake up," she called out once again.

Like hit by a thunderbolt, Reyansh sat up immediately, "Where?" he uttered his first word as he wake up.

"Haha...got you brother. Vanya 1, Stupid brother 0. Now get up, I have left breakfast in the kitchen, I am going to school."

"Have a good hunting brother. Look after yourself, otherwise who will I call stupid. Okay?" She showed her care in her own way.

"Okay, and that score doesn’t count," Reyansh responded after he took few seconds to orient himself.

"But it does. Bye brother," She ran off after the declaration.

"Take care," he replied, knowing there’s no way he going to win this argument.

After stretching himself a bit, he got up, doing his daily activities as he got ready for the Hunter’s market. After enjoying the sweet Curd and fresh Paratha made by his sister, he went to his mother’s room.

His mother lay in same position as before, for a second one would be confused that she was just sleeping peacefully if not for the discoloration of face.

He bent down as he kissed his mother’ forehead, "Just a little bit more, mother." He left the room, exiting the house.

He hailed a cab to Hunter’s Complex after walking a bit towards the main road. The journey was short as morning rush had yet to catch-up. He kept himself calm as he thought about ways to face the monsters today.

As he exited from the cab, the huge building made of glass and other exotic materials from gate came into view. A ray of light shone in Reyansh’s eyes as it reflected from the glass.

The place where all hunter related material are available according to their budget. He had come here before, but as a worker however that was not the case anymore.

The building has four entrance get, all of them were bust as hunters made their way one by one. Some had faces filled with confidence while some looked like it had become daily routine for them.

For the first time, he decided to stick with shop affiliated with NHC, for their easy access, average and fixed prices.

He made his way through the building like he had made multiple times, but this time with different intention. After a few moments, he stood outside a shop with a board that read:

All purpose shop for Hunters

We sell and buy hunter related items. One stop shop for hunters.

Aff. With NHC

After breathing out as he made his mind, he entered the shop.

The young man at the counter greeted him, "Good morning, how can I help you?"

"Good morning, I would like to sell some goblin corpses and mana stones too," Reyansh stated his reason.

"Okay, follow me," the man gestured to follow as he signalled different on to stay on the counter.

"The amount of corpse is decided by the state of the body and how long ago has it been killed," the man explained, as walked towards another room.

"They have been killed yesterday," Reyansh replied.

"That’s good, you can get decent price for them," the man spoke as they entered a clean room.

Though room had been cleaned like new, Reyansh perception caught the faint whiff of blood and other smell in the room.

The man noticing Reyansh’s reaction, explained, "This room is cleaned two times a day but it almost impossible to completely remove the smell with simple means. You know how the government works."

"Yeah, it’s okay," Reyansh responded.

"Please take out the corpse you want to sell," the man asked.

Reyansh took out all the 39 corpse, filing up half of room. The man carefully checked the condition of corpses for few minutes.

"The condition is better than average hunter, how long have you been hunting?" the man asked.

"A few weeks," Reyansh lied.

"These kills told me the same story. Since, the corpse are in useful condition, I will offer 1,0000 credits per goblin." The man told the price.

"As I said, I have been doing this for few weeks," Reyansh said with a straight face.

After a bit of pause, the man replied, "13000 credits, no more."

"Are you sure?" Reyansh pushed a bit.

"Yeah man, I won’t benefit a single coin after that," the man almost pleaded.

"Deal, I have mana stones too," Reyansh agreed as he produced 40 E-rank mana stones with one being larger than others.

"This is easy, mana stones have fixed price by govt. 50000 credits for regular E-rank stones, 70000 for elite and 100,000 for boss monster." The man shared the price list.

"Okay," Reyansh agreed as he knew this much.

"Your total amount is 2,527,000 credits. Do you want to buy something? We have fresh batch of weapons and new items in our shop at the moment," the man asked with a normal sales pitch.

Reyansh thought for moment, at his budget, he could only common and uncommon rank items. So there was no need to waste much time here.

"Yeah, I need a Katana and an items which work against heat," he shared his need.

"We should have that in stock, please wait at the counter for a moment," the man gestured as both exited the room, half filled with goblin corpses.

Reyansh waited around the corner, eyeing everything he could hoping that his true sight would reveal something. But even after watching everything for 2-3 minutes, he had no response.

’Either I am not doing it right or everything here is simple as it looks.’

’Tsk, I wanted to feel like the protagonist who gets a treasure among worthless junks, but I guess that’s not the case.’

"Here, we have both of the things you need," the man comeback with a coat and katana in blue sheath and presented them to Reyansh.

He checked the edge of katana first, it was decent enough. He felt a bit nostalgic as his fingers curled up on the handle of katana.

This used to be his go to weapon during training in school. Satisfied with the Katana, he checked the black coat made from some kind of leather.

"This coat is made with mixture of skin of Yeti and goblin. It has decent heat and cold resistance with thermoregulation. So it will be helpful in heat and cold areas alike."

"Okay, what is price of both?" Reyansh asked, the coat was sturdy enough for at least one use.

"Both are uncommon rank so their price is a bit steep. Katana is of 500 cosmic coins and coat is of 800 cosmic coins."

Hearing the price made him remember that he was wearing a Exalted rank mask. He didn’t even wanted to guess it’s price.

He had enough balance, so he thought of one more weapon, the mvp of yesterday, a dagger.

"Can I get a dagger too, common rank will work too," Reyansh asked.

A few moments later, the man presented three dagger with one having an unusual long handle.

This dagger caught Reyansh’s eyes immediately. He took the dagger in his handle, moving it around, trying the see if it fits.

Before Reyansh could ask, the man spoke up, "That dagger in uncommon rank but it’s defective because of long handle so it hasn’t been sold yet."

"If want to but that, I will only charge 300 cosmic coins for it."

"Deal," Reyansh agreed, finding this dagger useful to him.

"Okay, so your total is 1600 cosmic coins, after subtracting from the amount if 252.7 cosmic coins, you would have to pay 1347.3 cosmic coins only." He tallied the final amount.

"Only, huh?" Reyansh laughed little as he transferred the amount from his panel.

"Payment received, I hope you visit again," the man thanked.

Reyansh stored everything in his inventory and exited the shop then the complex.

’I have much more to earn, almost all I earned yesterday is used up,’ he thought as glanced at the remaining balance.

[Balance: 252 cosmic coins]

Just as exited the building amidst these thoughts, he hailed a cab.

"Where to boss?" the driver asked.

"Emberfall Chasm," Reyansh shared his destination.

"Hop in," the driver replied as Reyansh started his journey towards the gate where his today’s show is going to start.