Mixed Blessing System

Meeting his wife in another room of their house, Lothur was already dressed in fighting clothes and with his ax in his hands.

He did not intend to fight with the Elemental Staff since, with this artifact, he could ignore the spiritual effects of his wife's techniques. But his purpose in training with her was not simply to win but to stimulate his physique.

Since it was much better to suffer when that was the goal, he would naturally face Viktoria at a disadvantage and be pushed by her. So he had his ax in hand, a different one than the one he had used when he was at the 1st stage.

[One-Headed Ax] [Rank: Bronze]

[Feature: increases the user's attack power by 18%.]

[Reminder: it weighs 3,000 Newtons.]

Lothur had earned this ax after defeating one of his many 2nd stage opponents and keeping this item instead of selling it at the academy.

He had sold there many times before and earned silver and bronze coins and several merit points. But for some items, he would simply keep them, even considering his previous poverty.

That would not change much from now on since Lothur could not use many items at once, and he would rather have coins on hand than unnecessary artifacts.

Therefore, even though he had become a millionaire cultivator by local standards, this young man would not change that much just because of this.

As he stood face to face with his wife, who was finishing meditating, Lothur looked at her status and noted her small improvements.

'She's not far from level 11 of body cultivation...' He smiled. "Very good!"

Hearing her man's voice, Viktoria opened her eyes to look at his handsome face. She smiled at Lothur and asked. "You want to fight again, right?"

"Hmmm." He nodded, remembering that he had promised to surpass his wife's abilities quickly.

"Then I'll make you suffer a little more for saying such clueless things to me." She joked as she prepared to 'dance' with him.

"I'm looking forward to it..." Lothur teased, winking at her.

Meanwhile, she moved to attack him by surprise, using her soul to temporarily raise her Constitution and surprise Lothur.

"Oops..." He moved, easily dodging her.

"You're truly fast. I'll give you that." She grew more serious but was pleased to see Lothur acting so well at the start of this match. "But you need to learn new techniques. Although the mastery you have reached in your current techniques is excellent, they are still too simple."

"I know that." He commented.

Meanwhile, the two were moving around that combat room, with her moving from using her soul to strengthen physical attributes to fighting as an actual soul cultivator.

Lothur continued. "But it's difficult to find good techniques for body cultivators like me around here. I would need permission to the third level of the Innumerable Scrolls to find something like that."

Lothur only had access to the first two floors of the Innumerable Scrolls. So he was limited to that institution's most simple Iron and Bronze-grade techniques.

Most of the techniques there were for soul cultivators. In other words, there were few techniques there that body cultivators could fully master, so he did not have many options.

"Hmmm, that's right..." Viktoria commented as she tried to think of something to help her husband. "Maybe we can raise your position with today's agreements and advance to the third floor."

"Oh? That's not a bad idea."

...

While Lothur and Viktoria were training on their property, several families around Peters City were discovering today's accomplishments of their daughters or matriarchs.

That was the case with the Teusen family. Its matriarch had just arrived at their headquarters after traveling to an area 50 kilometers from Peters City.

She was not accompanied by Johann, as that young man was living in Peters City due to his studies at the Formations Masters Association.

So when she met up with her husband, this woman was alone but with a satisfied expression that such a man could hardly see on her face.

"What happened?" He smiled at her as he noticed she wanted to tell him something.

As she watched her husband resting in a leather armchair, looking tired, the Teusen matriarch animatedly said to him. "Valentin, I have made an incredible deal for the family! I bought 3% of a company that will start producing a special kind of chariot that doesn't need animals or beasts to pull them!"

"What?" Upon hearing such a thing, that man suddenly got up from his seat, feeling that some rascal had tricked his wife. "You did what? How much was that? Where was that, Monika?"

She then answered him. "I paid 1.35 million silver coins for the 3% of the Ritter Motor Company, a company to be developed in Peters City. I did that in that appointment that I should attend this afternoon..."

She was about to explain, but her husband's expression was getting uglier and uglier when he interrupted her, feeling the boldness of the people who had disrespected his family. "What nonsense!" He shouted angrily. "People don't respect our family anymore, and someone even tries to trick us!"

"I can't take that! I have to make these scoundrels pay for manipulating my wife!" He said this as he left his office. At the same time, Manika stayed behind without being able to explain the situation to him.

"Wait, Valentin. It's not what you think! I wasn't tricked!" She shouted as she ran. But since her husband was much stronger than her, this woman lost sight of him in a short time.

'Damn it!'

'What do I do now?' She pondered as she became angry that she had married such a temperamental man who could not even hear everything she had to say.

...

At the same time that the Teusen family was facing the current problem, the leader of House Koch was standing in front of his daughter and Anneke with an extremely dark expression on his face.

"Repeat what you just said..." He said in a low voice to his foolish daughter, who had spent almost 5 million silver coins on a project that, whenever anyone tried, failed.

That woman then said in a low voice. "I paid 4.75 million silver coins for 7% of the Ritter Motor Company..."

The gray-haired man on the other side of the desk where they were sitting around clenched his fists upon hearing this once again. "Exactly. You paid that for something that doesn't even exist... Something that always went wrong..."

This man then closed his eyes, asking the Holy Seraph to give him strength in this moment of such disappointment.

But his daughter was quicker than Manika and explained to her father. "It's not like that, father. I know very well the history of attempts by formations masters to produce a special carriage like the one I am talking about. But Lothur's product is different."

"It really works!"

'Lothur?' This man's eyes narrowed as he identified the scumbag who had manipulated his precious daughter.

Then Anneke said. "It is true, patriarch. The young miss herself has tried out the 'car' Lothur invented. It works and can carry even 3rd stage cultivators with ease."

"3rd stage?" That man's eyes widened at that information.

...