"Lady Cassandra and Mr.Rexford, sorry about my manners." Cosimo bowed. His attitude more agreeable overall.
"Never mind that, let's sit and go over business instead." Rexford gestured to sit down. "You as well Cassandra, after all, we are allies yes?"
"Of course. Let me just inform the others to head back first." Sending a quick message on her phone, she sent word for them to just take a taxi back. She would ride with Blake after wrapping up business. "Who is this exactly by the way?"
"Someone I would like to get to know better. But especially this one." Pointing at the down Luigi, Rexford walked over and fed him a Vortex Spirit Enhancing pill. "Gonna treat some problems in him to get ready to treat your grandfather more in the future."
"I am sure you don't mind Boss Cosimo." Blake answered for Cassandra. Eyes a little hard.
"Yes, I trust no real harm will come to Luigi." Boss Cosimo was no fool and understood the importance of Old Bo getting better. But Luigi was still one of his guys and helped him on the come up.
"Luigi, focus on the feeling building in your chest, ignore everything else in the room." Rexford instructed. The four attacked points in the chest were to help try something later. He was planning on taking Luigi out of here one way or the other. This just worked out in his favor more. "The energy in your chest will only rise, but everywhere else will begin to hurt.. right about.. now."
*Bloop!* Dark bubbles started to leave from the man's body. Rexford's eyes glowed brightly as black spots lit up on Biao's body. He could see the energy travel as Gold lines lead to what needed to be corrected.
Hitting spot after spot directing the Gold Qi, those who looked on thought they were witnessing a miracle. Scars and cuts on the body healed over. Even ones from when he was really little.
Cassandra watched with bated breath. She was very optimistic about her grandfather's treatment overall. The effects of the pills on themselves were one thing, but seeing them work to such a degree made her understand how precious the Vortex Spirit Enhancing Pills were.
As that finished up, Rexford passed out a few regular Spirit Enhancing Pills. Just to fix the damage and make those lackeys of Cosimo healthier. Best way to make the goons feel appreciated.
"I am sure you want to grow your criminal empire. But how many enemies do you have in the country that are beyond your means? Let alone the city?" Rexford leaned back making his offer as plain as day. "Let me take care of them and you run things when it is done."
"What do you get out of it?" Cosimo knew this was to good to be true of course.
"I get to have a good time and gain connections to the Underground more. My allies will operate in the light while I take care of the shadows. You already work in both so not much of a problem for you to help balance the two positions for now." Cassandra looked a little troubled at this. "Cassandra here will handle the light for me until I find someone more appropriate. After all, don't want to get her involved in something really.. illegal. Just morally questionable."
"Humph, I am not scared to get dirty!" It was bravado but time would tell if she could change into that type of person.
"As for Luigi, I need someone like him to help with matters. I am short on people. Like really short and need to ask him about some Operations he was a part of. Luigi fits the criteria of what I am looking for. So does that woman with you.. but something tells me you won't part with her."
"I will not!"Cosimo barked back. He reflexively placed a hand in front of the redhead. "Luigi, can leave with you if he wants!" Blake calmed the man down pretty quickly. "You are bad for ones health Mr.Rexford. You've got skill, but how would you fair against a gun?"
"Pull out a gun and shoot me point blank!" Rexford smiled at him sticking out his tongue. He wanted to freak them out just for the laughs. "Come on, if I don't go down, you have to pay me a smooth million!"
Cassandra was about to object but seeing how Rexford was smiling, well grinning like a lunatic she wanted to see what would happen. Her heart pounding loudly in her chest. Only martial masters of legend would be capable of stopping firearms.
Cosimo pulled out a gun and put it right against Rexford's head. The entire room turned deathly quiet.
Luigi stared unblinking at the two. A strange feeling rose in him as he could still feel the Qi from the Vortex Spirit Enhancing Pill running through his body. His blood pumping faster as adrenaline spiked higher.
*Pow!* The pistol fired off. In a few moments, it clattered onto the table. Cosimo fell back onto his chair in fear. His people moved far away with only Blake, Cassandra, and Luigi not moving away. The Supernatural scares him more than ever before.
"It tingles!" Rexford felt exhilarated as the bullet was levitated from the table into his palm. He was not sure it would work without taking a lot of damage. But the tempering of his flesh was crazy high. "Hehehe.. ahahahaha! That was absolutely fun! Should we get a bigger gun to try?!"
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"No!" Cassandra shouted. "Just get the money and let's go! You still have to treat my grandfather!"
"Aww, such a party pooper." Rexford shrugged as he settled down. Strands of Black and Gold Qi swirled into him. His need for Violence completely going away. Almost like a bad itch was scratched just now. "Enough time to go shopping anyway."
The bullet was tossed into his mouth as he ate it. It took only a few chews before it completely broke apart. That solved the question about eating metal and the strength of his body.
"Sir we heard a gunshot, is everything ok?!" A few security guards of the establishment rushed in to see what was going on. Their response time was pretty good. Seeing their boss completely spooked did not make the situation easier. "Boss Cosimo.. what is going on?"
"Nothing.. just stand down. Boss Cosimo was just messing around is all." Luigi responded pretty quickly. Cassandra was ushering Rexford out the door. "I will go with him to get the details for what he is looking for in the area, just get the money and things should be fine. I hope."
"Yeah.. the money." Boss Cosimo snapped his fingers after a few minutes. The funds were put into a suitcase a sent to be given to them before they left the property. "Where..where did the gun go?"
No one noticed Rexford swiped it and put it inside his Internal Space. After all, fighting with fists and kicks was fun and all, but guns were just so ingrained inside him that he wouldn't give up on them.
Besides, a gun turned into a magic tool would go a long way to taking out cultivators who thought them useless.
The late night was spent helping Luigi, Cassandra, her cousins of the 2nd generation, and finding out the places to hit first for Boss Cosimo.
Getting his laptop set up helped a lot with organizing different places to go to in the city. He already tracked down several jewelry stores, antique shops, cheap properties as well as haunted locations.
The biggest thing was that he purchased a few landfills and had Cassandra working on Zoning Permits. She covered the cost in exchange to learn pill making from him. The long process was not for her after trying twice.
But he imparted the basics to allow her to make Spirit Enhancing and Body Tempering Pills to her. The Bo family paid him a clean 2 million for it with a % of the shares coming in for them later of 5%.
Cassandra looked at the place Rexfgord had and could tell it was nice but he would want something bigger. He had the money but if her Grandfather found out more about what he did to her, Cassandra's importance in the Clan would be even higher than just a favorite Young Lady.
Promising to get in touch with him soon, she wished him luck on his testing. After having her grandfather help to speed up the process of his identity issue, she wanted to look into the name that it was changed to.
Who were the Maccabeus family?
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Preppeing for College-
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Paying to take the MCAT fee was no issue. Along with taking the Health, Life, and Auto Insurance State testing as well. Good news the others were all online and he could take them in about two weeks.
'At least this idiot was able to pass enough with decent enough grades to make it through General Studies during the beginning of Summer.' Looking at his ID that was changed this morning at least felt good. '600.00 to get done at short notice and my Birth Certificate changed, the Bo Family has some decent state & government pull.'
The proctor came out a few minutes later. Explaining how long the test would take and how long they should expect it to take. Besides general nerves from the varying aged members gathered, the process shouldn't be long.
Physical Sciences was the first part he had to tackle. Luckily it was easy considering his own personal history when purchasing Pharmaceutical companies and military excursions that were not the best due to chemical warfare.
CARS Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills were the least challenging. Easy only due to make cutthroat decisions in life. Analysis was something a UNit Leader had to do. They were not the best. Despite it being the easiest to him Rexford was worried the answer choices would not be the ones they liked.
Biological Sciences took the most times wise due to everything inside. Most of the Biology books and documents he read online took a lot of time.
Psychological came with a lot of second guessing.
Social and Biological Foundations of Behavior
"Haaa, now we have to wait." The proctor looked at everyone who just took the test waiting in the hall. "The results will come in 30 days or so, try not to drive yourself crazy in the meantime."
"Hey you!" A tall gangly man called out to Rexford. "Wait up!"
"What is it?" Rexford stopped right by the exit. "Make it quick man, I have some business to do."
"Wel, a group of us are going out to celebrate. Everyone is confident we passed.. so why not get togethor and consider the chances of us all meeting one way or another in the future setting good networking."
"Sure." Rexford agreed not seeing any harm. 'Networking is good and I do need to know people that can help change things on Earth for the future. Especially since this Dimension is so massive and all.'
A Meal with people-
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Out of the group, the oldest was a man named Malcolm from Germany who failed the MCAT barely last time. He had to become a Doctor because of some family legacy. Viktor, the one who stopped Rexford was in his mid 20's and wanted to become a Gastologist in the future. Tabitha who wanted to go into plastic surgery to take care of her family and community who suffered from a burn explosion. Rebecca just wanted to be a General all-around Doctor to help those in need.
These were the people who remained behind with Rexford after the other 20-something people left who needed to catch a bus or flight.
"So why do you want to be a doctor Rexford?" Tabitha asked since he was the only one who hadn't answered.
"A friend of mine was.. is a doctor. Plastic Surgeon to be specific. He always wanted me to come help him with setting up a practice in the future. Well, help fund it to." Rexford took a puff on his cigar blowing it to the side. "Something about working on the body he said... brings peace."
"Huh, that is something. Nothing noble or following family path." Viktor quipped.
"Nope, I am not Noble and my value of Honor is not that great either." Typing on his phone, he really wished he had a drink but it was hard to get any at this age without causing trouble. Could always steal some or maybe just grab it from a shop by hypotonic or something. "Real estate market is crap right now."
"Real Estate?"
"Yeah, buying land for future projects. It doesn't matter what's on the land or location."
"I have an aunt that is trying to sell an old store but... it is in the rough side of town. Like really bad on Valley Stream Area. Something about some drug runners or something. Trying to sell it way under market price." Tabitha offered up.
"If you have her contact to her looking to buy after hearing a reasonable cost for it.