Life Of A Nobody - as a Villain

281 Currencies of arcadia

"Brother, are you going out too?" Amelia asked, during breakfast time as she noticed several students making plans for their visit outside the academy today.

Most of them just wanted to go shopping for the freshers party, others just wanted to roam around.

"Yes, I have something planned. I'll be back before the evening training." Rio said without looking up.

"I'm going out too, you can join me for the shopping when you're free." Rebecca said and sat down on the table with her plate.

"Why are you leaving now too?" Amelia asked, surprised.

"There's some kind of auction event held by one of the elite families today. Alfred asked me to go with him." Rebecca said and looked at Rio whose hands stopped hearing Alfred's name.

But then he continued eating without saying anything.

–Clang

The sound of the silver spoon breaking in two and falling to the ground brought Rebecca back, as she looked at Amelia whose eyes were turning black or red in anger.

"Amy, eat." Rio said without looking up and Amelia just clenched her fists and forced herself to calm down.

Though her pressing hands did mold the table in her hand's shape.

"I'm full. I'll go for training." Amelia said and left without looking back. The aura on her body kept oozing along with a faint madness for blood, despite her high control.

Rebecca looked at both their reactions and didn't know what to say for a while. After much hesitation she just gave up.

After the dungeon crash event, the academy and others praised Alfred and Lisa for leading the student out of the calamity and saving their lives.

World Association and Zenith kept this news high to hide their failure to stop the attack. While King Maximus and the faction backing Alfred used this to promote Alfred's heroic image and build relationships with all the parties involved.

Yet even this positive news campaign couldn't hide the whispered rumors about what really happened, and how they really managed to survive.

And that's what made Artemis and Amelia both hate Alfred. If not for the blood relation or lack of proof, Rebecca was sure there would've been Alfred's body buried first before anyone from Warzy died.

But there wasn't anything she could do about it. Alfred was her brother after all.

The whole meal was spent in silence as neither Rio and Rebecca said anything.

"Take care of yourself." Rio said and left after he finished eating.

'System, I'm thinking _.'

[Host..]

'I've never actually used the explosives you boasted so much about.'

[???]

'Let's do that today.' Rio said and smiled coldly, as he remembered about the smug look Alfred gave him before he ran away from the dungeon.

'Don't let her be drowned in her anger.' Rio said as he pressed his hand over the mark of Kali's blessing.

After getting ready for the auction event, Rio called Esme, who was already waiting nearby to pick him up.

Getting in the car, Rio took out his private phone and contacted Riley.

[Change of plans. Send 3 men from squad zero to the auction.]

[And bring some fireworks too.]

Sending the message, Rio threw his phone into the system storage and closed his eyes. Thinking of all the drama that could happen at the auction, a smile inadvertently came to his face. Just the look on his eyes kept getting colder.

To enter the auction site, one either needed to have their invitation or membership card. If not both, then one could even buy a ticket for 10000 AC.

AC or Arcadian coins was the common currency system approved by the world association.

These were different from the normal currency of gold, silver, copper or platinum or mixed metal coins (MM coins) . Which is mainly used by non-awakerners or regular folks.

1 MM coin = 10 platinum coin

1 platinum coin = 10 gold coins

1 gold coin = 100 silver coins

1 silver coin = 1000 copper coins

1 copper coin

For awakeners these methodical coins fail to hold value as any illusion magic or metal magic could create them out of thin air. So to stop the frauds, different currencies were created for the awakeners.

Arcadian coins are made of a total of 23 different metals in an unusual mixture which makes them hard to be created by fraudulent people or scammers. Not to mention every arcadian coin had a special mark on them which could be identified by pouring a little bit of mana into them.

This makes it easier to identify even the single faulty coin or fake coin in a pile of coins.

There are even more currencies which are higher and different than arcadian coins, like mana stones, magic crystals, soul coins, ember shards or essence cards.

All these methods of payments depend on their various roles and usage for transactions. Same is the case for their conversion rates which differs depending on their rarity and market value.

From the current market price, 10000AC could be equal to 100 high grade mana stones. 1000 mid grade mana stones or 3000 low grade mana stones.

Nothing much for any noble or elite family to pay for.

Unless of course the protagonist's family.

Rio had a special team of hackers which were constantly monitoring all the accounts of Leon and his entire family. After all, who knew when that guy got some treasure on the roadside and became nouveau riche in seconds.

Thus from what he knew, Leon had about 25000AC and 50 high grade mana stones on him, which his father gave him during the admission time.

There was no way this guy was going to waste almost 1/3 of his entire savings just to attend an auction.

As for if he got an invitation, well he didn't.

Nishkal family's young master had an old feud with our Leon after all.

Three years ago, Leon was attending a similar auction with his father, looking for a way for any miracle medicine which could cure him, but when he went to the toilet, he came across a room where he heard the sound of screaming inside. Curious and heroic as he is, he entered and found Nishkal family's heir forcing himself upon a young girl.

Since Leon couldn't fight the guards behind the heir, he just started screaming and calling for help.

Since the venue was fully crowded some people came there soon and the Nishkal family's heirs' good deeds were exposed and ruined.

Though the news was quickly suppressed and never leaked outside. But the heir of the elite family always held a grudge against Leon for it.

As for that girl, well she disappeared and was never seen again.

Probably only one person knew where she was and that was Rio himself. After all, it was all his own plan and idea just to ignite an amber which could turn into a flame today.

Experiment number 29 - can he create new enemies and challenges for the protagonist. Entirely different from the plotlines ahead of time.