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After traveling for three hours, they had to stop to camp, as night was falling.

The thing is, camping in this place is no easy task. Camping outdoors was out of the question; if a meteorite fell on them, they could all die.

But there aren't many safe caves in this place. Fortunately, Louis had chosen a place to travel where there were just the kind of caves they needed to stay in.

Although they were a little off the route they would be following, it was still safe.

Most safe places in this world are safe because they have impressive resources there that somehow prevent those meteorites from falling on top of them.

In this case, they stayed beneath one of the mountains of mines of some mineral, the type unknown, but it must not have been very valuable, since it had been left as a resting place for travelers. That didn't happen with valuable minerals, even though they were safer, and the reasons were obvious: it would be a lot of money wasted.

Louis didn't care about any of this. After finding a safe place in such a dangerous location, he was finally able to relax.

He could still feel Leon's gaze on him, Leon doubting him. Perhaps he was thinking, 'Does he want to kill me?'

But he turned a blind eye and simply focused on what was important.

His system had just completed its update.

[100%...]

[System Updated]

[Host, the Money God System has been updated.]

[You are the God of Money, chosen by the System that carries that class. Your actions produce money. Your intentions create power. Welcome to our future hegemony, Host.]

The system began to give him an introduction to the improvements, starting by telling him that there would now be new series of missions that were much more lucrative, with greater scope depending on his deepest intentions.

It explained explicitly and precisely: [Be careful what you feel inside.]

Then it began to explain something ridiculous.

[Earn money for breathing: 2,200 Jens for every breath.]

[Cumulative Reward. You can convert them into System Coins at an exchange rate of 100 million per coin.]

[Earning money for breathing does NOT give you Stat Points.]

Just when he thought he was seeing something that would make him the true Almighty God of this world, he hit a wall with the last message.

'It doesn't give points? Why?' He complained, but the system didn't respond, so he had to theorize on his own.

'I see.' He shook his head. 'It's what it said before, right? My actions create money, and my intentions create power. Since it's not a mission, it doesn't create power.'

He had to sigh and lament. He had tried to create a mission to earn money for breathing before and failed miserably.

Technically, it didn't fail. It worked and the mission was created, but it was automatically deactivated afterwards for no reason.

Now he understood that it was because that option existed in the system, but it was not available.

'Wait, can I really create money by breathing?'

He looked further down in the system and saw an additional section.

[Accumulated amount: 125,400...]

The number kept increasing, and he could even withdraw it if he wanted to.

He did a test. He breathed several times in a row, as if he were a dog searching for its prey, and the number increased rapidly.

'It really increases by 2,200 for each breath.'

Just then, the system sent a message.

[Forcing continuous breathing damages the lungs. To take care of the Host, the number of daily breaths has been limited to 31,000 for now.]

'Well, that's not bad. I think a person breathed an average close to that before on Earth, so it's treating me like a normal human.' He thought.

Hardrial had told him before that until they 'Transcended', they would remain normal humans, with some improvement, so he could understand this system setting.

Although he was in shock, if he said that his actions created money...

There was more, right?

He looked further down.

Another of the permanent tabs in the new system.

[Earn money by walking: 90,000 Jens for each step.]

"90 thousand?!"

If it weren't for his great control over his body, he would have choked and started coughing immediately. Such a ridiculous amount for each step... Does he want to turn him into the God of Money?

'Wait, I already am.' He shook his head and reread the amount.

Below it was a reminder, again.

[To protect the Host's bones, muscles, and tendons, the number of steps has been limited to 500,000 per day.]

He didn't complain. They were giving him so much money every day, naturally he was going to accept it without question. Besides, it was for his own protection.

Taking 500,000 steps a day was crazy enough as it was; he would surely never reach that goal. Not because he didn't have enough stamina, but because he would become mentally exhausted from walking so much.

'Forget it. Does this give stats?'

[Earning money by walking does NOT give stat points.]

'Sigh.'

He continued looking further, and there was another one.

[Earn money by exercising]

| Squats 0/100: 100 million each.

| Sit-ups 0/100: 100 million each.

| Push-ups 0/100: 100 million each.

| Pull-ups 0/100: 100 million each.

| Mission resets daily.

[1 stat point awarded daily after completing the mission.]

'Good.' He smiled. If something gave him stats, even if it was only 1 per day, he was happy. Anyway, it was just doing a few exercises, which would also give him a lot of money. He couldn't be happier with this new mission and was going to start immediately.

But there was still something else.

[Earn money by eating]

| 3 meals per day, at 3 different times.

| Each meal gives you 10 billion.

| 1 daily stat, after eating all three times.

| Mission resets daily.]

[Today's meal: 1/3.]

'Mission to eat?' Louis smiled sheepishly. He didn't know why, but he felt that these missions were actually for his own good.

Lately, he tended to forget to eat a few times a day because he was so focused on training. He didn't have many problems because his body remained strong, but he understood that food had real nutrients, so he had to devote time to it.

Even more so now that he would get 10 billion just for eating.

Seeing that he could still eat another meal at this time, he decided to eat something Laura was preparing.

But before that, to say he was satisfied with this was an understatement.

Now he had to see the most important thing.

The stat points.

'2,160 points available.' He frowned.

It was a ridiculously large amount, which also revealed that his wealth had risen to overwhelming levels.

[System Coins: 27,450.]

'A lot of money,' he thought.

And that's normal. I had been completing missions lately. From missions for each battle, some of which gave very little, to missions for reaching the top 8, the top 4, and the top 2. Missions for betting with Rebecca and other side missions.

Finally, that mission to win the tournament, which was multiplied by the bet with Robert Priestley.

Naturally, the amount of coins earned was staggering. Even more so because he had completed the mission to help his uncle.

Still, he didn't find that amount of money astonishing. With all the ways to make money that the system upgrade brought him, he was sure that in no time he would earn that amount or even more.

Now, what he did find ridiculous was the amount of points, and he certainly didn't know what to do with them.

'Should I add them?' he thought.

It wasn't that adding it would cause him any trouble, but he was curious to see how far his current strength could take him in this tower.

'If I manage to pass floor 30 or 35, then adding all those stat points would surely take me past floor 50. Not only would I climb to level 100, but I would complete the floor 50 mission, which would give me another huge amount of points, and I could recreate missions, this time improved, to climb the tower and increase my level,' he thought.

That was a good idea.

He decided to go with that decision. Test the limits of his strength and when he was getting close, increase his stats to climb to the 50th floor if possible.

Once he had made up his mind, he suddenly got up.

Laura looked at him. "Are you going to eat?" she asked.

"Yes, save me some. I'm going to do some exercise," he said and left.

"Exercise?" She followed him with her eyes and was soon shocked.

He had started doing such basic things as squats, push-ups...

'What the hell is he doing?' she thought and shook her head before going back to cooking.

Next to her, Leon was helping her season the food and couldn't believe what he was seeing either.

"What are he doi-?"

"Don't ask," Laura replied before Leon could finish his question.

She couldn't give him an answer.

Louis finished in no time, and 400 million Jens were added to his new wallet, plus his points increased by 1, now totaling 2,161.

'Incredible, truly incredible.' Louis smiled graciously and reentered the cave.

After eating, that amount of 400 million and a little more increased by 10 billion at once.

He smiled. That was perfect. He didn't know what he was going to use so much money for, but he was sure it would be important.

Especially at this moment, when the empire was about to descend into chaos, which he would surely take advantage of.

The next morning, they left quickly.