The daytime sun began to approach its sunset, which made the small shadows grow bigger little by little, spreading some darkness over the village, whose primitive lights began to light up, most of the simple villagers gathered on the main street full of shops and peddlers selling various kinds of products and food, whose bright smell spread everywhere, and among the crowds of people walked an ordinary-looking man in his twenties with a face full of resentment, his brown eyes were looking around and watching everyone intently, but after a short time his stomach gurgled from the intensity of hunger, which made him raise his head he looks at the sky, which is beginning to darken, and then sighs at length.
'It's been 4 hours and I haven't found anyone decent who can be enslaved, all the people in this village are just ordinary fishermen and simple merchants, most of the residents are poor and weak, even the only Navy headquarters in the village is staffed by only 3 people from the village, they obviously haven't had decent training.'
'I can say that this village is the worst place to start, but why complain, a man should spend his time with what he has, Should I find the nicest person in the place and ask him for my hospitality as a lost person, or should I waste my only chance of enslavement right now on a fine person who has some money?'
Sigh!
"It's about to get dark."
Nicholas lowered his head and started walking again while the villagers watched, looking for some people whom he had set as possible targets earlier, but while he was observing his surroundings, he saw a man in an ordinary uniform walking very calmly like the rest of the people, on the surface he looked like an ordinary person, but Nicholas's expert eyes felt strange, because of this he accelerated his steps until he there is a hint of pride in his expression, and also there is a thick gold ring on his finger and this is something that most of the residents of this village cannot afford, Hey what This?: 'Nicholas looked at a man with a small scar on his face walking next to the common man and carefully watching his surroundings. He also moves smoothly from the crowd and keeps a very close distance from the Ordinary man.
"Bodyguard?"! It looks like I've found the prey I have to catch, ' Nicholas smiled strangely and then ordered the system to identify the rich man as a target for enslavement, at that moment a transparent green screen appeared [ scanning the target]
[The task is set: get the target man to give you his ring within the next two hours ]
"What is this now?" "
'I thought the conditions that the system would demand would be something normal and normally achievable, but not to do a circumvention, is that weird?' But thinking about it, this is not an impossible task.'
Sigh!
Nicholas followed the rich man and continued to monitor his actions for about a quarter of an hour, when he noticed that the merchant visited only shops and sellers selling trinkets and jewelry. 'well, this is a promising thing.' Nicholas looked at his wristwatch, sighed, then set the alarm in it and continued to follow the rich man, when he saw that he stood in front of one of the shops and began to inspect the things displayed in it.
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Alfred, a rich merchant, stood inside the jewelry store and began to inspect the displayed products, which were jewelry and earrings, most of which were made of silver or metal, nothing from the display was interesting to him, which made the owner of the jewelry store feel disappointed, but he did not want to lose a potential customer so he took out a small box from under his table and said in a low voice, "sir, I see that you didn't like my products, and you seemed like an expert person who likes good and beautiful things, so I'll show you the best piece in my shop" the owner of the store opened the small box to show two gold earrings inside two beautiful butterfly-shaped ones flapping their wings, And in each suite there were a few beautiful emerald-colored jewelry, and some of them were Cyan in color, which made her look even more amazing."
When Alfred saw the earrings, his eyes shone and he felt very curious, and then he stretched out his hands and wanted to hold them, but the merchant pulled out the small box and said in a low voice, " I think you are curious about this product, but you can't touch it randomly, you should treat them kindly."
Alfred felt annoyed and said in an impatient voice, " let me see them, I'll carry them carefully."
The shopkeeper put the small box in front of Alfred and said to him in a voice full of anxiety, " okay."
At the same time, a young man in his twenties entered the store and began inspecting the beautiful and ornate ornaments with all attention, without paying attention to the owner of the shop, Al-Farid and his guard, who stood a little away from him.
Alfred picked up the two beautiful Dahabi earrings and inspected them carefully, and every time he looked at them, he admired them more, and after a few minutes he put them in their place and looked at the shopkeeper and said, " I'm going to buy them."
The man pulled out the box, covered it, then put it under the display table in its former place and said in Surprise, " are you sure, these earrings are very expensive?"
Alfred raised an eyebrow and felt a little offended by the shopkeeper's words, which made him raise his voice a little, " just say the price."
"Well," the merchant shrugged provocatively and raised two fingers, " two hundred thousand berries ."
Alfred's eyebrows arched and he said, " that's too expensive."
Then the merchant replied, " These ornaments are made with precision and perfect craftsmanship and using several precious materials such as gold and purple emeralds, and also I have told you that they are expensive and will not bear the cost."
Alfred felt some provocation, which made him pull out his thick wallet full of money from under his robe and calmly opened it to reveal dozens of thousand and ten thousand berry banknotes."
The shopkeeper's eyes shone and he resisted the urge to pounce on the purse of funds.
Alfred pulled out two hundred thousand berries and put them on the show table, said "Give me the earrings."
"Well" the shopkeeper took out the earring box and gave it to Alfred who opened the box and looked at the beautiful earrings and then paid the money to the merchant who took them in turn, and began to prepare them contentedly.
Then Alfred wanted to leave the shop, but he heard a chuckle from the side, which made him turn around and look at the young man, who was looking at them with amusement.
Nicholas's muffled laugh made Alfred and the shopkeeper feel a little annoyed, because of which the shopkeeper angrily shouted, " boy, what's laughing at you?"
Nicholas laughed and sarcastically said, " nothing."
Nicholas's response was provocative, which further angered the owner of the shop, who walked towards him shouting, " Get Away From my shop, you crazy person, you are annoying customers."
When Nicholas saw the shopkeeper approaching him, he moved quickly and stood next to Alfred, but at that moment The Bodyguard moved quickly and stood as a hindrance next to Nicholas and Alfred and without any sign of discomfort Nicholas said sarcastically, " You mean the customers that I installed such a person next to me."
Nicholas's words made the shopkeeper stumble in his place and at the same time a strange look appeared in Alfred's face.
"You crazy, the shopkeeper moved quickly and wanted to push Nicholas, but Alfred pointed to his bodyguard who moved quickly and arrested the shopkeeper. The Bodyguard was very strong, and the shopkeeper's hands were locked in place which made him unable to move.
The shopkeeper angrily exhaled "what does this mean, are you a gang and you planned to rob my shop" the loud words of the shopkeeper made the passers-by pay attention to what was going on in the shop, which made many of them stop and look at what was going on.
Alfred looked at the passers-by with upset eyes, then looked at Nicholas, who stood calmly and spoke in an angry voice, " young man, what are you talking about?"
Nicholas pointed with the hand with which the watch was located towards the shopkeeper and sarcastically said: "gentleman, this person has circumvented you."
Alfred felt more displeased and asked, " how is it possible I've got the earrings I bought, obviously they are of very high quality "
When the shopkeeper heard that, he shouted, " gentleman, we were treated very well and you said it yourself, Why Are you listening to the words of this crazy bastard then?"
Nicholas smiled, pointed to the exhibit table and said to Alfred, " go and see what's under that table.
When the owner of the shop saw Nicholas pointing to the table, panicked features appeared on his face, and he began to shout, " damn Thieves, you are trying to rob my local people, someone called the Navy, these damn criminals want to rob me."
Without paying attention to the cries of the shopkeeper, Alfred walked towards the table, and looked at the direction where the shopkeeper was, and then his eyebrows arched in anger, because he found several red boxes similar to each other, he picked up one of them and opened it to find inside the same earrings he bought, and at that moment he understood what had happened and said angrily, " How dare such a miserable person try to rob me and cheat on me."
"Alex beat him up, and called the Navy guys to throw him in jail for some time!
The panic increased in the face of the shopkeeper and he began to shout, " please forgive me, Dear Mr., I made a mistake about you, I didn't mean that."
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So far, three chapters have been published. What are your thoughts? Is the story engaging?