Hundred Times Income Multiplier System

"Mr Edwin, do you happen to know where there are fighting competitions?"

Edwin wasn't expecting such a question from Jack at this moment. But all the same, he still asked curiously, "Do you also like participating in the betting?"

"Not at all. I'm just curious about the competition. In fact, I wanted to try out my abilities there." Jack responded honestly. In fact, although there were several fights back in Crystal city, he had never attended to any.

After all, he wasn't someone that was so much focused on things like betting or fighting for entertainment. He was busy looking for ways to save more money and not to go around risking loosing even more money.

Edwin raised his brows a little. He didn't expect that Jack had a hobby of fighting. But anyway, everyone had their own preference. Although Jack was rich in that he could pay four billion all at once, that didn't imply that he wasn't a human.

"I didn't know that you have such a hobby," Edwin chuckled as he said these words.

On the other hand, Jack couldn't help but say to himself, 'Of course you won't know because this is the first time that we're meeting. How can you know about a thing that even I myself didn't know about?'

Edwin thought for a moment before saying, "I happen to know a friend of mine who likes these fights. I can ask him about that."

Jack nodded in appreciation. It would be good if he could finish the system's task as soon as possible and make the fighting ability become his permanently.

Edwin took his phone and made a call. "Hello Linus, I have a friend here that wants to join a fighting competition, I don't know if you can help me in making the arrangements?"

"Yeah, here's right here with me…..You mean that you're there already? It seems that you're really addicted to this game of yours….Don't worry about him, he intends to join but you can ask about the details after we come there….. Alright, it won't be long before we arrive…."

After that, Edwin ended the call and looked at Jack with a smile, "You're really lucky Mr Jack. There happens to be a competition that's going to start at around six in the evening. As long as we get there on time, you can register and participate in it."

"Is it big?" Jack asked. For the system task, he wasn't supposed to participate in something that couldn't be recognized as a competition. If it was just a sparring session, the system would definitely not recognize that as a competition.

"Oh, look at me. I forgot to tell you. My friend is one of the big bosses of an arena called Ultimate Arena. Every third week of the month, there's usually a tournament called Ultimate Championship." Edwin slapped his forehead as he explained.

It turned out that this was an arena set up by a few big bosses of Venture city. Although it made profits for them, they mostly used it as their source of entertainment.

Every month, there was a fighting championship that lasted for two days. It was carried out during the third week of every month. And today, it was 21st of July 2026. This was the second last week of the month.

The first day was mainly the preliminaries and elimination matches. The following day was a time for the top eight to fight it out. The number of people who registered for this fight didn't matter at all.

What mattered was the fact that they arranged for there to only be eight people remaining by the end of the first day of the competition. As a result, the competition went on till midnight sometimes.

As Jack listened to the explanation, he nodded. It seemed to be a grand one. But, it seemed that there was another championship that only happened in December, it was the Super Ultimate Championship. This determined the real champion of the arena.

Jack got interested in it. If it happened that he was here in December, he would surely participate in it to make a few dollars as well as to test out the strength of those that claimed to be the champions of the arena.

Although Edwin wasn't entitled to helping Jack, he was quite free at this moment and decided to accompany him. What had made him stressed out all this while was of course the issue of selling the company.

But now that it had been sold, he could relax for a while. Furthermore, he was quite curious about Jack's abilities and the reason for his confidence to ask if the competition was big.

So, they left in his Mercedes Benz AMG S63 V8. Edwin drove the car himself and took Jack towards the eastern part of the city.

Not long after that, they arrived in an area that was quite compact with many buildings and the population in this part of the city was high. Furthermore, he could already tell that this part of the city wasn't doing good.

'Turns out that every city has its own lesser areas.' Jack thought to himself as he alighted from the car. He could already tell the reason as to why the arena was located in this part of the city.

This was the side that had the poor population of the city. Most of the fighters of the arena came from this group of people. There were people that were desperate to get money and had no choice but to try their luck in the ring.

Of course, this was the area that those without power stayed. So, these big bosses could easily cheat them if there was a need to do that. Or, they could eliminate them without much of a problem if they offended them.

Although there was law, there was always the other side of the coin. For law enforcers to exist, those that broke the laws must be present.

These bosses had their influence a over the city and they had their own people in the police as well. So, it wasn't hard for them to get away with it after committing a crime.

Jack followed Edwin to a path that led to a building that looked old. He raised his brows while looking at the warehouse-like building that seemed to be collapsing the next moment. He wondered if it was safe to be in there.

Edwin seemed to have noticed his worries and reassured him, "Don't worry about it Mr Jack, this place is safe. Although it looks like it's going to collapse soon, it has been reinforced by steel bars."

Jack obviously couldn't believe such a thing. It won't collapse? This thing needs to be demolished so that it can be reconstructed! Even though he thought that way, he still nodded to Edwin as they headed into the warehouse-like building.

When they reached the entrance, Jack could see that there were several steel bars that were holding the roof and the walls from the inside. Furthermore, it seemed that the inside was quite steady.

But what made Jack confused was the fact that the whole warehouse seemed empty apart from a few people that were loitering around. There was no arena at all.

There was one end that had a few people congested, a crowd of about thirty people seemed to be arguing about something.

He was just about to ask about it when he saw that Edwin hadn't stopped but seemed to be heading towards the side of the warehouse with fewer people.

Jack followed closely behind him and not long after, they arrived at an entry that led to another room. There were several bulky men with sinister faces standing there with metal rods in their hands.

The moment that they approached, these guys moved to the side to let them pass. They greeted Edwin enthusiastically as they entered. From this, Jack could already infer that this wasn't the first time that Edwin was here.

After all, the way that he was familiar with the route and this small group of gangsters, it was obvious that he had been here a few times or more than that.

Anyway, Jack didn't care about it. He simply followed behind Edwin who them began explaining, "This is the path that the big bosses follow. There's another entry to the arena that the other folks use. But, it's always crowded with people."

"There are those bosses that don't want to be seen in public. So, they usually use another entrance. But, I'm in no mood to go around to enter as I'm used to coming to this part of the city to recruit a few people into the company." As Edwin spoke, Jack finally understood why Edwin was familiar with this area.

From his words, he seemed to be diligent in running the company in that he personally came out to recruit a few talents by himself.

If he could find a good fighter, as long as that person received good training, it was a sure bet that he could make a good bodyguard. Furthermore, those that won the fights here had experienced the difficulties of life and weren't afraid of killing if necessary.

Just this decisive side of them made them qualified to be bodyguards. They could kill an enemy as long as the enemy had the intention of killing their client.

Not long after, they reached stairs that led underground. Just from this entrance, Jack could already hear the sound of a crowd. He hadn't expected that the arena was actually located underground.

As they walked down the stairs, the sound of the shouts of the crowd became louder. After a while, they arrived in an open space in a well lit underground stadium.

That's right, this place was not small as compared to a stadium. Although it was underground, it was well lit.

With the current level of technology, it wasn't hard for them to easily create an underground stadium. All that was required was funds. But, Jack was sure that these people had already gotten back what they had invested with interest.

There was an arena in the lower area and several screens were hanging in the air, showing the ring below. Currently, they were displaying the initials of the arena UA and the championship, UC. Furthermore, there was a list of those that had registered being displayed on the list. Currently, there were more than fifty names being displayed.

Jack's current area was blocked with glasses that allowed one to see the arena but those beyond the glass couldn't see what lay behind. This was a set up for the confidentiality of the big bosses.

They were just about to enter a room where registration was carried out when a cold voice reached their ears. "Oh, isn't this Mr Edwin. I wonder if you're here for a competition, or are you here to get a few more guards?"

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Author's Note;

This is for the previous one hundred power stones before I republished the book again.