Chapter 2: Manipulating a Friend! Where did the system come from?

As for the system's mission, it seems that the potion that Max thought about before will be created. That potion will succeed, bringing down that girl for at least two days, but the girl is not important. What matters is the prize that will be taken after bringing down the girl.

With Max gathering all the ingredients needed for the potion, he opened the book to make sure he knew how to use it.

“Hmm, the victim should get wet with the diluted potion. This means we can throw water on the victim and let the alchemy magic do its work.”

“Now there is another important thing. I know Alexa. I don’t know her personally, but I know where she usually is. But how will I be able to trap her and finish the mission? She is often attended to by her father's henchmen. Hmm... I have a plan.”

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In one of the bars on the eastern side of the village, Max entered with a bright red potion in a bottle that he held in his hands, which he put inside his jacket to hide what he was carrying.

The bar was almost empty, just a man here, a man there, and a woman there. The important thing was that they were far enough away from the bartender, who was sitting boredly with his head on his hand, waiting for a lively work night to approach, and a lot of people.

Max goes to the bartender, who is a friend of his, and they have some interests from before. He is the same age as Max, and he failed the magic exam four times, just like Max.

"Josh, I have a request to ask you."

"Without even a greeting, can't you start with a good greeting like people say, 'Hi, how are you' and I say, 'I'm fine' or something like that?"

"Oh, come on, don’t be so boring. I think our plan will start ahead of schedule, and maybe with a few changes to the plan, I have a request for you.”

“What do you mean by a change in plan? We have been planning this for more than a year; any changes will not be good.”

“I have a magic potion that will make the daughter of Zara, the leader of the Green Flower, fall into our hands, and I want to overthrow that gang as our first step toward supremacy.”

“A magic potion puts Zara’s daughter in our hands.” Josh’s eyes turned red. This was his chance to finally reach Zara’s daughter.

It was not unknown to Max how much Josh loved Alexa, and he had told him more than once that he wanted to build a strong enough gang and go ask for Alexa's hand in marriage. But building the gang required strong members, and some of the village youth gathered to plan.

With Max being one of the village's best, strongest, and most intelligent hunters, he has made friends with other powerful individuals who also failed the magic test. But even if they failed, they wanted to climb the ranks.

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Now each one of them has his own secrets, and Max's secret is his advanced knowledge of chemistry, so he will not think to ask Josh about the quality of the potion, or if the potion was correct and he did not make a mistake in the ingredients, but rather he will ask where the potion came from.

"Where did you get the potion?"

"Of course, I bought the potion from them."

"You were able to find them. It is very difficult to find their place because they move a lot, and it is difficult to buy from them because they do not sell to anyone. How did you convince them?"

The people that Max and Josh are talking about are the most secret people on the black market. They cannot be found easily, and you cannot buy from them easily, and for those people, it will be another story.

“How did I convince them. This will be my secret. What you should ask is: How will you use the potion? Here it is in your hands. All you have to do is throw the diluted potion on the girl, and she will be your puppet and even your slave, and with this, we can trap the Green Flower gang.”

“And what do you stand to gain from this? I don’t think it will come for free, even if it will benefit you in your climb for power.”

"Hmm, ha-ha-ha-ha, smart as always, Josh. This is your dad's bar, isn't it? I want the bar, Josh."

“The bar once, isn’t it very expensive?”

"Do as you like, Josh. I can always use the potion for myself and control her to become my sex slave and then control the gang, but you know my problem; I don't like to show myself too much," Max said with a sly smile.

"I'll get you the deed for the bar tonight."

“Tick tock, tick tock, Josh, this potion must be used before the end of the night; otherwise, it won’t work anymore. Don't think that they will sell me a high-level product so easily, bro.”

"I won't take much time, since it's your bar from now on. Stay and take care of it and its guests. I don't care about the bar anymore. I'll be right back."

"Mhhhhhhhh"

Two hours of time have already passed, and Max can barely serve customers because he has never worked in this type of work before, and he will need to hire a bartender to work here because he will not have time to work here. The night is approaching, and it is almost time for Alexa to arrive because most nights she spends here getting drunk.

After a long wait, Josh finally returned with a few files in his hands, which must be the deed to this bar.

“Well, well... it looks like you came back with the price for the potion.”

“Haha, yes, that and the papers have been stamped; you can put your stamp, and the bar will be yours. Now I want the potion.”

'Love makes a person blind; even though Josh is smart, because of blind love, he didn't even think about if the potion was a lie, which potion would work just for me because it has my DNA in it,' thought Max as he handed over the potion and took the bar's deed and papers. 'I don't need the pub, but a little money doesn't hurt.'

"Now, I want you to find someone to work here. I won't work here as a bartender; I have a lot of other work to do. Also, you and I must deal with the gang and control it through your girl. Even though you love the girl, don't forget the reason why I gave you the potion." Max said it with a mischievous smile.

“Don’t worry about it; we have hired a servant to help. I couldn’t run the place alone. Although you are not going to help, you should hire someone else because one person will not be enough for the work here; it's difficult.”

"Sure, sure. Any way, make sure you put that potion in Alexa's drink and then accidentally spill it on her. The girl will be all yours. Let's start the plan tonight."

“Well, it's been a pleasure working with you, Max.” Josh gestured with his hand to shake him for the deal.

“Hmm, of course, it was a pleasure working with you, Mr. Josh." Max shook his hand.

As time passes and we wait for the guest of honor to arrive, the servant who will help with the work will attend. Max sat thinking about how to use the system.

"System, show me everything I need to know. I don't think you're just running errands, are you?"

[ding]

[Status]

[Missions]

[Store] (closed) (need to upgrade the system to the second level)

[???] (The system needs to be developed to levels higher than the second level.)

"How to develop the system to the second level, or to higher levels in general"

[System Name: World Conquering System]

[Whenever new areas or lands are conquered, the system develops. Conquering land makes the system collect more energy, so currently the energy around you is collected, but only a little]

[If this village is conquered, the necessary energy will be collected for the system to evolve to the second level.]

[A village will be considered conquered when you are the village leader and there is no one threatening your position.]

[When you become the village leader, the system will be able to collect energy from the entire village.]

[By conquering more territory enough to be called a city, the system will evolve to the third level.]

[The fourth level needs enough land to be called a province]

“So this is the payment I have to give you in order to become the system host.”

[True, by gathering more energy and destroying the laws of the world, the system will regain its previous body. If this is done, the host will be generously rewarded]

"Well, that sounds like a deal to me, but tell me, who or what were you?"

[The level of the system is too low to answer your question; the laws of the world must be destroyed. Destroy the first law by developing the system, and you will have some answers]

"Well, doesn't that sound fun, hahaha?"