Looking at Alyssa pretending to be pitiful, Corin could not help laughing and boldly sent her a 100,000 dollar bonus as compensation for the lost beauty sleep.
"Ah~ boss~ muah~ love you!"
Alyssa excitedly wrapped her arms around Corin's neck and smacked a kiss on his cheek.
'This girl…'
Half amused and half helpless, Corin wiped the saliva off his face and signaled Alyssa to go on and explain.
Alyssa efficiently took out a notebook. On it, she had densely recorded the intention behind every call: There were 15 commissions for murder, with rewards ranging from a maximum of 300,000 to a minimum of 100,000.
There were 8 commissions for bodyguard jobs, with rewards ranging from a maximum of 200,000 to a minimum of 50,000.
There was even one commission to catch a cheating spouse, with a reward as high as 400,000.
But that was not even the most outrageous part. No less than 20 calls were invitations for Corin to have dinner together.
The price, whatever he wanted to name.
"What the hell! What do they take me for?"
Listening to Alyssa summarize the commissions, Corin felt a chill all over.
He was very curious whether those "dinners together" were actually proper dinners.
Right after that, Corin fell into deep thought.
A mission to kill one Lizardman had taken him a few days of effort, going up to the sky and down into the ground, for only 600,000.
Later, even when it rose to 1,000,000, that was just because of someone's fake generosity.
The cost to performance was way too low.
Not to mention those ridiculous commissions, even though the rewards were in the hundreds of thousands, it was still too little.
After all, the talents in the system shop that were worth buying all started in the millions and tens of millions, and there were many that went over a billion.
Let alone the later upgrades.
'Those are all priced at dozens of billions, even hundreds of billions. At this rate of making money, looking at this ratio…'
'Damn, earning these few scraps from bounty missions, what difference is there from when I used to deliver takeout?'
'Might as well go to Afganistan and wipe out bandits over there."
Even a small group of terrorists there had bounties of more than two million.
Thinking of this, Corin's eyes lit up.
'Afganistan?'
'Sounds like a pretty good gold coin map.'
After sending away Alyssa, who was still boiling with excitement, Corin finally had time to quietly rest for a while.
Although his super strong stamina kept him from feeling tired, the past few days had been too intense and his brain needed a break.
After taking a shower, he lay comfortably on the bed, brewing his next step of plans.
He was at least a bounty hunter worth tens of millions, even though he did not have much money left now.
Ordinary commissions could no longer satisfy his need for numbers when it came to money.
"Going to a gold coin dungeon map to wipe a zone and earn ten or twenty million dollars shouldn't be a problem."
Look at those terrorists, yelling about freedom and holy war while doing things like burning, killing and looting. They were enemies of the entire world.
Everyone wanted to kill them.
And he just happened to have that ability.
No need to be jealous, this kind of work really was not something ordinary people could do.
A wanted thug from Hydra could have a bounty of 5,000 dollars. Terrorists of that level, even small fry, should be at least over 5,000, right?
There were a lot of enemies of the world, and in Afganistan there were especially many.
That settled it.
First sweep Afganistan, then clean up Somalia.
Those terrorists and pirates that gave every country a headache would eventually all become numbers in his account balance.
After figuring out his next move, Corin began to reflect on his abilities.
Flying through the air with his throwing knives carrying him up was indeed pretty awesome.
'Why does it feel a bit familiar?'
'Right, Thor swung his hammer to fly around with the same principle.'
The difference was that Thor was a god, with infinite stamina, while he...
Right then, the system notification sounded:
[+1,000,000 dollars, account balance: 2,835,000 dollars]
Alyssa had transferred over the mission reward, and he had previously spent 300,000 hiring and rewarding Alyssa.
The numbers checked out.
Continuing his earlier thought, Thor had infinite stamina but Corin's stamina was limited. With the same flying method, he could not possibly reach Thor's level.
He looked at the upgrade screen for Physical Enhancement:
[Physical Enhancement Lv1 → Physical Enhancement Lv2, permanently increase stamina by 20 points. 2,000,000 dollars]
'Good grief, how does this amount line up so perfectly?'
He was destined not to be able to save any money. The four-legged money-eating beast (adult version) was talking about Corin.
Sensing that Corin's gaze had been lingering on the Physical Enhancement upgrade screen for a long time, the system gave a prompt:
["Upgrade?"]
"Upgrade!"
[-2,000,000 dollars, talent upgraded successfully. Account balance: 835,000 dollars]
A faint itch spread through his body. His muscle fibers became denser and his bones were further strengthened, but his overall build did not change much in appearance.
It seemed that after experiencing the metamorphosis to Deadpool-level regeneration, ordinary upgrades could hardly give Corin any clear feeling anymore.
He opened the status panel. Streams of data shimmering with golden light formed a holographic screen before his eyes:
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[Name: Corin]
[Age: 28]
[Stamina: 35]
[Current account: 835,000 dollars]
[Existing talents: Deapool-level Recovery, Dynamic Vision Lv.2, Jeet Kune Do Mastery, Physical Enhancement Lv2, No-Form Mask, Precision Throw Lv.2, Sketching Mastery.]
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Seeing that his stamina had increased by 20 points, Corin still did not have a concrete sense of what that increase meant for now.
"Need to find a suitable place to test it."
His eyes rolled slightly, and he casually put on some clothes and walked out of the hotel building.
———
Strolling along the streets of Manhattan, Corin still had not figured out how to test exactly to what extent his body had been strengthened.
He had only just gotten used to the previous upgrade and no longer easily destroyed everyday items, but after going out this time he had already stepped through two pairs of shoes and torn three shirts.
The clothes Alyssa had bought for him were all decent brands. Even if he was not short on money, using them up like this was too wasteful.
Treading lightly, he passed by an abandoned factory. Glancing at the rusted steel coils inside, Corin's eyes lit up.
Lightly hopping over the fence, Corin was surprised to find that just by relying on his body strength alone, he could easily jump more than ten meters high. If he put in more effort, jumping over a hundred meters on the spot would not be a problem.
"Is the boost from these 20 stamina points really this freakish?"
Muttering to himself, Corin walked up to a steel coil. He dug his hands into the base, and with a heave, the entire coil of steel lifted off the ground.
Feeling slightly strained, Corin held the huge steel coil and maintained it for about a minute, then casually threw it back down to the ground.
BOOM!
The coil hit the ground with a loud crash, kicking up a huge cloud of dust.
Corin remembered having seen an introduction about steel coils before. Each one of these weighed somewhere between 15 tons and 30 tons.
Even ordinary cargo trucks did not dare to load too many of them.
The fact that he could pick one up meant that his strength should be around 20 tons at the moment, at most not exceeding 40 tons.
This discovery gave Corin a rough understanding of his current stamina.
He smiled slightly, and a green figure appeared in his mind.
Maybe now he could even have a little spar with the Hulk.
———
After returning to the hotel, he had Alyssa book him a plane ticket to Afganistan.
"Boss, is it a new mission?"
Hearing Corin's instructions, Alyssa's eyes lit up and she looked at him eagerly.
"It's not a mission. Going to do a bit of public service…"
Thinking of the high bounties on terrorists and Alyssa's top-notch hacker skills, Corin had her look online for locations of terrorist strongholds so she could provide off-site support for him when the time came.
Alyssa thought Corin was really going to act chivalrously and uphold justice, and since there was no money in it, she was not that enthusiastic. At least not until she heard Corin say: "200,000 bonus."
Alyssa instantly turned into a power locomotive, hugging her laptop and chugging away at work.
Shaking his head helplessly, Corin took his crimson outfit and throwing knives, and set off just like that, heading straight for the airport.
———
By the time Peter Parker excitedly rushed to the Manhattan Hotel after school, Corin was already on the plane.
On his way home, Little Spider gloomily kicked a stone on the ground and sent it flying, "Damn it! If it hadn't been for running into that robbery at the last minute and having to go catch the guy, I wouldn't have wasted so much time."
"I could be going out with sir right now… damn!"
"That pretty big sister just now must have been sir's girlfriend."
Thinking back to Alyssa's beauty, her tall figure, and that lazy yet heroic air about her, he praised in his heart, 'Sir even has such good taste. He really is a man with no weak points.'
"Afganistan, huh? I really want to go…"
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