One week later...

Many things happened during this week. To start things off, Michael decided to go all out. During this one week, he did not relax, apart from the sleep at night.

With his current physicality, he did not really need so much sleep. Only just a few hours a day were enough. But, out of habit, and the intent to relax the mind, he usually slept late into the night, and woke up at around 6:00 a.m.

Due to him just focusing on acquiring SP, he ended up pushing four skills to the expert level a day. And for that reason, by the evening of the 7th day, he had already managed to push a total of 29 skills, including the marketing skill, to the expert level.

With each skill granting him 6,011 SP, 29 skills granted him a total of 174,319 points. Added to the previous 8,189 points, the current total that Michael had was at 182,508 points.

If this was converted into cash, it would be equivalent to over $18 billion.

At the moment, Michael was sitting on the balcony, watching the city's night lights in the distance.

At the moment, Michael was contemplating about something.

Considering that a year usually had 365 days, with the leap year having 366 days, Michael did some calculation. With him going all out, just focusing on acquiring SP for an entire year, he would be able to accumulate a total of 1,460 skills at the expert level.

With each skill granting 6,011 points, that would bring him a total of 8,776,060 points. That would be equivalent to over $877 billion. This implied that within just a year, he could easily become the richest man in the world.

Unfortunately, Michael could not bring himself to do that. After all, to just focus on acquiring SP for an entire year, not doing anything else or interacting with other people, it would be too dull of a life.

Additionally, to become the richest man in the world, he did not necessarily have to fully depend on SP. He could use SP as a means, using it to acquire high level technology blueprints from the system store, then convert that into cash.

Michael had been sitting here for quite a while now. So, he stood up, did a few stretches, before he went back to his bedroom.

After that, he lay on the bed, as he thought about the events that had happened during the past week.

First of all, it was mainly concerning Annex supermarket chain. This supermarket chain had opened several stores all over the eastern province.

But on the day of the opening of the other new stores, some gangsters began causing trouble. But on the very same day that Michael acquired the shares of Vanguard Corporation, several security guards were dispatched.

As expected of a huge corporation, and one of the top security firms in the world, the security guards that were from this corporation were all top-notch.

It was not just in terms of discipline, but in terms of skills as well. Each one of them was capable of handling at least two people on their own. Of course, that was not involving the trained fighters.

But, most of the gangsters were just people who had been involved in some street brawls. Not many of them were skilled fighters. So, most of the security guards were able to easily handle them.

Due to the dispatch of the security guards, they made sure that the gangsters were taken care of. Of course, it was not just about dealing with those that were trying to cause trouble at the stores.

Instead, they actively went to look for the hideouts of the gangsters, to deal with them. And with the cooperation of Damian and his skills, all the criminal evidence of each gangster was revealed.

And due to the event that had happened not long ago, related to the former police chief, the police this time were not willing to hide anything. After all, each one of them was afraid that if they cooperated with gangsters, their secrets might be revealed.

So, the moment that the criminal evidence on the gangsters was revealed, they were all arrested, taken in to wait to be taken to court.

That was something that intimidated most of the gangsters. So, within just a few hours, the issue involving the gangsters had been taken care of.

As for the mastermind behind this, Michael was quite surprised. It was not as he had expected. Previously, he thought that it might be someone who was eyeing the market gap that had been left by the Kingsley family's price point supermarket chain.

But unexpectedly, the one behind this was actually a leader of another gang. Gaining this information was quite easy for Michael through Onyx.

The person who had sent the gangsters to cause trouble for Annex supermarket chain was named Thomas. This guy was the leader of the biggest gang in the eastern province.

But of course, this was just the information that the public knew about. Well, more like the information that was known by most of the influential figures within the Eastern province.

But, Michael was able to easily get detailed information on this gang. The name of the gang itself was Dark Society. And this guy called Thomas, who was very proficient at using knives, was actually just a figurehead.

There was someone else that was controlling him from behind the scenes. And that was the person who was actually in charge of this organization.

As for the name of this person, Michael was able to find out that he was called Hudson. This guy usually acted low-key, and most of the gang members did not even know about him.

In fact, the only person that knew about him was Thomas, while the others only thought that Thomas was the one that was in charge.

As for the origin of this guy called Hudson, Michael was able to find out that he was actually from the central province.

Even though the information that Michael managed to find was not clear, Michael realized that there was a plan that this guy called Hudson was making.

As for what exactly it was, for the time being, it seemed to be impossible to be able to find out, unless he actively sought the information.

But during this week, Michael did not bother to do that. Instead, he had always been focusing on acquiring more SP.

When it came to the issue of dealing with this gang, Michael did not do anything. Instead, he just remained silent.

And due to the fact that apart from dealing with the small gangsters that had been sent to cause trouble, and not causing any further trouble for the Dark society, it seemed that they had no any intention of provoking him any further.

But of course, all of this was just temporary. Michael had no any intention of letting go of this gang. The only reason why he had not dealt with it was simply because he did not feel like doing it, at least for the time being.

But that was not going to be the case in the long run. That was especially if they tried doing anything against him.

Though, Michael doubted that they would try anything like this again. After all, he had already intimidated them by dealing with the small gangsters. Since they were targeting him because they were the ones that were backing the Kingsley family, they should know about what had happened to the Kingsley family.

And because they knew, they were afraid that Michael might end up causing trouble for them. If the dark secrets of the gang were revealed, it would be troublesome for them to be able to deal with it.

Regardless, during this one week, Annex supermarket chain had managed to completely stabilize itself within the Eastern province.

And due to how well the business was operated under Damian, it had already attracted quite a large number of customers. And by estimation, it was only just a matter of about a month or so before Annex Supermarket chain completely dominated the eastern province.

But of course, this was not the only thing that had happened during this time. There was also the restaurant chain that was run by Benjamin, with John being the one considered in charge.

Starlight Restaurant chain had spread within the city. Benjamin had no intention of expanding the restaurant chain to the other cities, at least for the time being.

Still, they had already managed to dominate most of the market within Brenton City. They had already begun giving the five-star hotels competition. As for the smaller hotels, they were not even a concern.

But of course, due to how they had suddenly sprouted out of nowhere, and dominated most of the market within just a week, it had already begun causing concern from the owners of the others in the culinary industry within the city.

And according to the information that Michael had acquired through Onyx, it was clear that several of them were already making plans on taking action against John and the kids that were from the orphanage.

But, Michael had already made arrangements on how to deal with those issues. He was just waiting for a chance, to have all of them dealt with. But of course, he was not the one that was going to actively do it, but Benjamin, who was in charge.

And then, there was Sky Technologies. And on this particular day, they had just released a new product, after improving several of the previous products that they had launched.

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