It was already starting to get dark when Jacob reached Easter City, which reminded him of a German City in the late 1900s.
But the only difference was that it was already developed in technology as there were electric street lamps and road cars.
It's just that Jacob wasn't used to seeing all those creatures and not humans driving and walking on these streets. He even felt somewhat sad for his own kind, but it was just a fleeting feeling.
Suddenly Douglas remembered something as he revealed, "Oh, I almost forgot, Mr. Jack. Please give me your account number so I can send you your reward for bringing back the black ship and the bounty on Earth Slayer.
"As for the weapons in the black ship, we had already turned them into gold coins as well since you won't be needing those inferior goods."
Jacob's eyes gleamed when he heard this. He also forgot about the promised reward Milan had told him about.
'At least they knew how to keep others satisfied.' So Jacob thought before he told him his bank account number.
Douglas then pressed on his star watch before transferring the amount to Jacob's account.
When Jacob's star watch vibrated, he knew the transfer had been successful.
He opened the star watch, and when he saw the message from the bank, his eyes widened ever so slightly.
'Troll-Of-Just has transferred 1.5 billion gold coins into your personal bank account, no *****!'
Another message soon followed,
'Congratulation, your account balance had been crossed 1 Billion!
'Your account no ****** is eligible for an upgrade to the B-Tier please visit our nearest branch to complete the process as soon as possible….'
Jacob never expected the reward would be this huge for returning the black ship and killing a skull.
However, if he knew the price of the black ship was 50 billion and it couldn't even be bought with the money, he won't think it was unreasonable at all.
As for the Earth Slayer he killed, that guy had a bounty of 450 million, and the other hundred or so millions were for those weapons in the black ship.
This was also a way to shock Jacob with just how generous the Golden Sword Country was, and it would only benefit him more if he stayed loyal.
It might've worked on someone else, but it did not affect Jacob!
"Thanks." Jacob still thanked the man and closed the star watch.
Because of his purchase of the star information sea, he was running low on credit, so this amount just came in time.
Douglas found Jacob's calm and unexcited reaction strange because anyone who becomes a billionaire out of the blue would have a much more intense reaction, especially if a person were like Jacob, a rustic.
Yet, he reacted like a billion wasn't even a thing in Jacob's eyes, so Douglas thought that Jacob might not even know what a billion was, or he simply didn't care about money since he was from the wilderness and their money didn't matter.
Afterward, they soon stopped in front of a grand building which named 'The Grand Holiday Inn.'
"I guess Mr. Jack would be quite tired after our long journey. So we'll stay in this Inn, the best hotel in Easter City. I hope it will be up to your taste." Douglas chuckled as he exited the jeep.
Jacob's eyes flashed mockingly before he exited the military jeep. He looked at the grand entrance where a goblin was standing as a bellboy and led them inside respectfully since Douglas was a Mountain Troll.
Douglas booked two large rooms for themselves and handed a key to Jacob before saying, "Please head first, Mr. Jack. I'm going to meet a friend before I would join you for dinner."
Jacob didn't care much and merely nodded before he was led by the goblin bellboy on the second floor where his room was stated.
After Jacob reached the room, he asked the purple-skin goblin, "If the person with me came looking for me, tell him I'm retired for the night and don't want to be disturbed until morning."
"Yes, my lord." The goblin quickly agreed respectfully.
Jacob nodded and then tossed a gold coin toward the goblin. It was good that the currency was the same in the common and rare regions because of the Zodiac Taurus Bank, or it might pose a problem for Jacob to collect money from scratch again.
His room was luxurious if he compared it to anything he had ever seen after coming into this world.
But Jacob wasn't too concerned about the room. Instead, his eyes flashed in a peculiar glint as he thought, "Cursed Immortality!"
The book appeared, hovering in front of him the next instant.
Jacob coolly asked, "What is the strongest species around me right now?"
"What do you take me for? I'm your danger detector or something?" Immortika wrote in a perplexed tone as if it was annoyed for some reason.
"Just tell me if that Extraordinary Golden Elf is still around or not." Jacob was also annoyed.
How could he not know about the Golden Elf haunting him like a pest?
On that day, when Milan confronted him calmly and collectively, he instantly summoned Immortika and asked it to tell him what was the strongest species around him.
When he discovered a hidden extraordinary-tier golden elf on the ship, he knew if he showed hostility, he would be dead!
So, he pretended to play all along and as act if he didn't know anything.
Although last night and in the morning when the meeting was held, the cooldown period of summoning was still not over, so he didn't know if there were someone there monitoring him.
But he didn't dare to risk angering an extraordinary. He behaved as it was expected of him.
When the cooldown period was finally over in the jeep, Jacob decided to save it until he reached the Easter City and then see if that golden elf was still following him or not.
"Only that Rare-Tier-8 Mountain Troll is hiding at the end of the corridor. What are you going to escape?" Immortika questioned with great interest.
As long as Jacob's question was right, it would answer it, and gauging the tier of a species was something it had never rejected before, and this time wasn't any different.
'That laying fucker.' Jacob's lips curled in a cold smile as he answered, "No, I'm not going to escape, and why should I?
"They're still testing me, although I don't know what kind of range you had. I'm sure there would be an ambush waiting if I tried anything funny.
"I can even bet that this room is also being monitored right now, and it was all just a setup to see where's my loyalty lay and if I could be controlled or not.
"On the contrary, I'm going to be a loyal slave they all wanted me to be, and the moment I'm done with them, they look away… heh."
Jacob sneered coldly before he moved toward his bedroom and did as he said he would and didn't try anything.
"Heheheh… interesting, interesting, this mind game of yours is to my liking. But what if they decided to send you on a suicide mission after not getting the result they want from that so-called magic test." Immortika questioned in excitement.
"I'll decide when the time comes. I just want to get into their information network for now, and the Nightmare Knight Legion will significantly help me.
"They clearly couldn't control the three hegemonies' actions, but for some reason, they could place those restrictions on their citizens to stop them from joining the three hegemonies without initiating their wrath.
"Something is going on here, and I need to find out what before I decide my next move. Unless…" Jacob's eyes turned sharp as he looked at the book meaningfully, "Unless you could help me spy on them or infiltrate their database so I could be on my way to collect those element cores."
"Hahahah… it's still too soon for you to trick me into doing something like this, but nice try, though." Immortika instantly saw through Jacob's true intentions.
"Tsk, I was worth trying." Jacob snorted without being much shocked since he had expected this much and didn't pay much attention to the book anymore and lay down on the comfortable bed.
Since those guys didn't intend to get rid of him as long as he behaved, he didn't have to worry about getting attacked for now.
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Douglas, who had put an excuse to make Jacob show his true intentions, was still hiding inside the ceiling while coldly looking at the star watch in his hand.
There was a live scene playing of Jacob lying on the bed!
Suddenly a message popped up on the live feed,
'Mightily_Sword: It seemed we were wrong about this little bumpkin's ambition. He's as obedient as a dog. Hehehe.'
Douglas's eyes narrowed in uncertainty because he also thought that Jacob would escape the first chance he got, and this was just the chance he needed. He even gave him over a billion gold coins to make him reveal his fangs.
Yet, here he was, sleeping, without even caring about being attacked, much less escaping!