All Chapters of System Within: Million Dollars From Today: Chapter 541
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CHAPTER 541
Gabe woke up and found himself in what looked like a wooden chamber. It was a small room, not even 100 sq ft in area.There were no ceiling fans or lightbulbs, but there were a few glowing crystals embedded in the walls.Gabe tried to get up, but his midsection was so hurting it did not allow him to even sit up on the bed.Just then, a senile lady entered the room.“Oya, oya, you opened your eyes at last,” she put her dried leaf hat on the shelf and came to the bed.She opened Gabe’s eyelids further and checked his eyes.“The scales have mostly disappeared. I wasn’t expecting much, but your body absorbed all of the medicine I gave you. This is a rare phenomenon, I must say.”“Where am I?” Gabe asked, his voice filled with pain. Just breathing was hurting him.“In Longtooth town,” she replied.“How long was I out?”“You weren’t really out,” she said. “Your eyelids and fingers kept moving all this while, but you’ve been on the bed for four days and nights.”Gabe’s eyes grew into saucers
CHAPTER 542
A few minutes later.Gabe opened his eyes and found himself in the wooden room.Seeing that ceiling, he was immediately disappointed with himself for losing against the apes.He looked to his right.The senile lady was sitting next to the bed, drinking what looked like sparkling, glowing water.The shocking thing was that she was drinking from a wooden glass, but he was able to see the light coming through the glass.It wasn’t harsh on the eye but was soothing.“What’s that scarlet drink?” he asked. “Is it the monkey’s blood?”“Why would I drink blood?” she glanced at him rather coldly. “Where are you from, boy? You don’t seem like you’re from this city. Did you come from the outside world?”Gabe sat up. “How did you realize that?”“It’s just a guess,” she poured the same scarlet liquid in another glass and gave it to him.“What’s this for?” he couldn’t help but ask.“If you want to be healed faster, then you better drink it,” she replied.Nodding, Gabe drank it. It tasted similar to
CHAPTER 543
Gabe and the old lady stepped out of the house once more.The apes were rounding them up again, but she tossed a single banana into the distance. The apes viciously fought among themselves to win that banana.“Now is the time,” the old lady hurried along the branch and reached a hidden door inside a vertical branch.They both entered and then quickly closed the door.It was utterly dark inside, but the old lady snapped her fingers and created a flame at the tip of her fingers.Gabe also used lightning to make his hair glow. He noticed a ladder that was leading upwards, but it didn’t go downward.“You’re going to attract too much with that,” she commented.“Oh, okay,” he dimmed down the lightning so that it radiated softly.“That’s better. You have good control over lightning. You should be able to learn the Stellar Arts. I’m expecting great things from you.”“I’m going to leave once we find your granddaughter,” Gabe told her, “Mrs. Reveria.”“As you wish.” She put her hands behind her
CHAPTER 544
“There are rabbits everywhere,” Gabe said as they walked down the road. “More rabbits than people. Thankfully, the rabbits aren’t big like the apes and lemurs.”There were houses and shops on either side, built with wood, and there were bird nests on some rooftops.“This is called Rabbit town,” Reveria explained. “Rabbits grow and populate fast, so they qualify for a constant supply of meat.”Gabe wasn’t surprised. “There’s enough vegetation here, so the rabbits can grow fast.”“My granddaughter bought a rabbit from this town and raised it,” Reveria said. “One day, she visited this town, but she made a mistake. She brought her rabbit with her. The rabbit went missing. She searched everywhere for it, and she found the rabbit’s locket at the house of the mayor. It was the mayor’s son who killed her rabbit.”“Why would he do that?” Gabe couldn’t help but ask.“He once proposed to my granddaughter, but she refused,” Reveria said. “He fought her and lost. He suffered a humiliation.”“He di
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At the mayor’s house.The mayor was being massaged by four teenage girls. He was tall and bulky, but he also had a very big stomach that looked like it bloated from the accumulation of gas.In front of him, there was a basket full of baby rabbits, which were probably a day or two old.The mayor’s wife picked up one baby rabbit at a time and dropped it in the mayor’s mouth. He crunched on the baby and swallowed it as if it were a snack.“Nothing tastes better than fresh babies,” the mayor chortled. “I never get tired of this taste.”One of the girls ended up pressing a vein on his hand, which hurt him a little and made him hiss.“I’m sorry, sir,” the girl apologized.“You wench!” He punched her with the back of his fist.Her face blasted to bits, causing the other girls to cry in horror.“Tsk, you bitches ruined my mood. Get lost,” he kicked the basket and put his shirt back on.The three girls ran away quietly, with their hearts in their mouths.The mayor’s wife was picking the baby r
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“Dragon Chomp!”The mayor’s arm created an illusion that looked like a vine stretching forth toward its prey, like a living dragon’s mouth that sought to devour anything in its path.“Not so fast!” Gabe leaped forth and struck the incoming claw with his lightning-clad foot.The resulting explosion sent everything in the garden flying away. The walls of the house cracked and broke. Half of it crumbled.Only Reveria was the one standing. The others in the vicinity were all knocked off their feet.“Haha,” the mayor laughed. “You’re not bad. This is going to be fun!” He swung his other hand at Gabe’s face.“I didn’t come here to play games with you,” Gabe struck the mayor’s forearm first with his forefinger. “Veinstrike!”It sent lightning through the arm and spread through to the whole body, momentarily freezing the mayor’s body. (A lightning ability? And he managed to get past my aural skin?)“Galvanic Chain!” A series of nerve-bludgeoning punches rained down on the mayor, each strike e
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Elderwood was the name of the giant tree the rabbit town was built on.The wood of this tree was also considered to be the oldest and toughest wood on the earth, for this was the only tree that survived when similar trees perished during an incident long back. Even the tree at the center of the world was cut off, but Elderwood was still spared.Reveria told Gabe a lot of things about this tree, most of which sounded like myths, but he couldn’t help but believe what she was saying.After all, the tree was at least tens of miles high, and he couldn’t even see the ground from where he was.Reveria and Gabe arrived at an aerial tramway.“Whew,” Gabe was relieved to see the cable cars. “We don’t have to rely on climbing skills this time.”Multiple patrol officers rushed over to the scene with rifles in their hands. “Halt right there! You’re both under arrest for killing the mayor and for disrupting the peace of the rabbit town!”Gabe looked at Reveria and said, “Get in the car.”She nodded
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A few hours later.They arrived at the eightieth realm. Reveria’s wanted poster was also posted on the walls with a reward of 1000 gold.But Gabe’s poster was just a drawing of him. And it didn’t look anything close to him. But the bounty on his head was also 1000 gold.Covering their faces, both of them came to an alley and knocked on a hidden door in the ground.“Fish,” Reveria said and knocked four times on the door.A few seconds passed, and the door opened. A masked man was staring at them. “We don’t sell any fish down here. Get lost.”“We are the fish,” Reveria replied.The masked man’s voice changed, “Come inside.” He went down the ladder in one sliding motion.Reveria mimicked him well, but Gabe didn’t. He climbed it down normally.“Everybody here is skilled with ladders,” Gabe said.The masked man guided them to a hall full of shelves where all kinds of items were available. From guns to artifacts, it looked like a vault of sorts.“We will need two face masks,” Reveria said.
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On the ninetieth realm.A twenty-year-old girl was inside a metal cage. She was also chained to the cage while being escorted on a white bear’s back.There were two knights in silver armor following her closely.In the front was a winged-lion cart where the prince of Elderwood was playing a puzzle game.The cart stopped.A wealthy man from that realm quickly came over to the cart and kneeled. The prince stepped on his back as he got down from the cart.“I’m going to have a wedding soon,” he addressed the wealthy people that lived in this realm, and they all cheered for him. “I want you all to be there. It will be the biggest wedding of this century.”He was tall and handsome, but his gaze was sharp and fierce like that of a feral beast.He was the one and only prince of Elderwood, Miguel Craig.“You look so sexy in the white and red dress, Your Highness!”“Please take me as your wife, too!”Many girls and ladies cried in joy and expectation.One of the two royal knights, the blue-hair
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On the 82nd realm.Gabe and Reveria were in an alley not far from the elevator that would take them to the higher realms.“If we can enter that elevator, we’ll go all the way to the 88th realm,” she said. “But the problem is that we are using fake identities. We’ll need someone who can carry us with them.”“So, we’ll have to wait until we find someone who’ll do that for us,” Gabe said.“Indeed.”“But why would some random person help us?”“I’m afraid we’ll have to threaten them.”Gabe forced out a smile. “Are you serious?”“Did I ever make a joke with you?” she asked back.Gabe went silent.Just then, they heard the loud noise of a horn.“What’s this?” Gabe looked toward the end of the street. There was a procession coming with the blue flags of orange swans everywhere.“It’s the Swanmere family,” Reveria said. “They’re one of the noble families of Elderwood.”Gabe could smell the perfume fragrance from at least over a thousand feet away. “Where are they coming from?”“There’s been a