Chapter 98 - Ch 98 : The President's Offer

One couldn't even count the number of people who wanted to speak to this man, be that the giants of the financial and political world as well as big-shots awakeners from Indonesia. Heck, even some bigshots from other countries were lining up to speak with this man.

That was why Ray was very curious right not. Why has someone like the president come to this place? What was his relationship with Big Sis? Or the Big SIs thing was just a farce, and his real target was actually Ray?

All these thoughts mixed up in Ray's mind. And eventually, he decided to just use the wait-and-see approach.

Thinking too much would not help, and it was better to just wait for the president to reveal his intention.

The president then began speaking.

"I'd like to first thank you for taking care of Kei all this time."

Ray tilted his head.

'Is it really just about Big Sis?' He thought in his mind..

"You don't need to be that surprised. In fact, I always treated Kei like my own daughter. She...."

The association started to talk, and different from Ray's imagination, the president was pretty outgoing.

The two exchanged all their thoughts about Big Sis and sometimes laughed with each other as they revealed Bis Sis's shameful secret events.

But then, Ray had never let his guard down. He would never believe that the president would just come here for this, and even though the president might have a good relationship with Big Sis, he was too busy to take care of this trivial matter.

The president noticed that Ray was always on guard against him and smiled. With this, Ray had passed his first test.

The president nodded his head against Ray and took the cup of tea to drink it.

"Well, you passed."

"Excuse me?"

While Ray formed a confused expression, the president formed a gentle smile.

"The truth is, One of my reason to be is here to check whether you could protect Kei, and from the looks of it, you barely passed the test ." The president explained, but ray still had a somewhat confused expression on his face.

"Now, let's get to the main business." The president put down the cup of tea that he had drunk before, and immediately the full power of his aura was burst in front of Ray.

"Ray Sandjaja, I want to ask you, do you have any relation to the Ghost Mask cult?"

At this time, Ray felt that his whole body was pressed down by the brute force of the president's aura.

But Ray himself was no easy persimmon. He checked his stats on the information panel, and his eyes glowed with glimmering lights.

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[ Ray Sanjaja ]

[ Lv 25 Awakener Soldier]

[ Exp: 10000/55000]

[ Energy: 980%]

[ Strength: 60 / Vitality: 38]

[ Agility: 49 / Dexterity: 41]

[ Intelligence: 30 / Sense: 47]

[ Special skill: Danger sense (D-rank, evolvable), Appraisal (D-Rank, evolvable), Contracted beast summon (E-Rank, evolvable), Hawkeye ( D-Rank, evolvable), Camouflage ( E-Ranked, evolvable), Pentjak silat (D-Rank, evolvable), Energy Strike (E-Rank, evolvable).]

[ Universal attributes point: 20]

[ Natal weapon: The stone Mk. II]

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Ray was now level 25 captain-class awakener, but his stats were not in any way weaker than someone like Eve. The oppressing aura of the president was strong, but he was still able to hold himself.

Ray also burst his aura to face the pressing aura of the president, and soon after the two auras clashed, the two auras canceled each other.

BOOM!!!

A small explosion appeared in the orphanage as the two auras clashed. Luckily, the president and Big Sis had told everyone to not go inside during this moment to avoid any casualties.

The president's face was full of shocked expressions, but the moment he looked at Ray, his face was full of determination.

A wide smile appeared on his face as he clapped his hand:

"Good, you are really good!" This time, the president's word was not sarcasm or anything like that. Instead, it was pure admiring at Ray. For such a young man to be this strong, his future is truly limitless. Now, all he needed was to handle all the external matters for him and let Ray grow without any hindrance.

Mahkota's heir, the little witch, and now this guy. It seems it was the time for their country to fully reclaim back that Asian Tiger title.

The president calmed down his thought before he looked at Ray and said:

"It seems a bit confusing to you, right? But please wait and let me explain."

Indeed, Ray did want to ask that. What the heck is going on here? At first, he thought that his identity as the Morningwood Master has finally been revealed, but it didn't seem to be the case anymore.

The president answered in rather a straightforward manner.

"You, Ray Sandjaja, will be one of the people that leads us in the all-country competition."

'All country competition…?'

Even before Ray could ask what he meant by that, the president spoke up first, looking somewhat embarrassed.

"Well, the name is pretty bad, but it fully represents what it is. In fact, from the time that the PvP system appeared out of nowhere, all the bug countries had been speculating that there will be country awakener wars, and every country is preparing for it."

"….Ah."

Ray looked a bit dumbfounded. He was the master of the DM System, so why did he not know about this.

But before he could speak any further, the president had already cut him off.

"How about it, Ray? Do you fancy representing us in the all country war? Of course, the country will give you full support about it. You will be given Dungeons to level up, and all the procedures will be taken care of for you."

The offer was seductive. If it was before, Ray would immediately agree. But now Ray hesitated a bit.

He has the DM System and was the Morningwood Master. Should he risk exposing his identity just for this?

Seeing Ray hesitated, the president didn't look nervous at all. He knew that it would come to this, and luckily he had prepared a trump card to handle Ray.

He took out a piece of paper from his bag and started reading it out.

"Ray Sandjaja, previously Lv. 3 awakener with only ability: F-Rank danger sense."

Ray heard the president was reading his info and got somehow confused. Why was the president reading something he already knew? But when the president continued his words, Ray's face immediately turned horrified.

"One and a half months ago was only an Lv. 3 awakener, but suddenly his level raised like a rocket in just a month and was able to reach Lv. 20 awakener before the Lawang Sewu Special Dungeon exploration. The growth rate was already unheard of before, and to make it worse. There seems to be no indication that awakener Ray Sandjaja had entered any government-affiliated dungeon...."

Ray knew that even though the president was just reading his information, it was s basically a threat.

All the things the president read would justify him to be detained and questioned by the government. But for the president to just bring it here and read it out loud to him, it seemed like he was saying.

'You already have so many dark secrets. Are you sure that you don't want me to handle this?'

Yup, it was basically a threat. But after some pondering, Ray noticed that this threat was not that disadvantageous to him.

At least, all his shady history would be cleared off by the president like what he said before.

Ray, who knew that he had no chance to say no, could only smile helplessly. He stuck out his hand to the president as if asking for a handshake and said:

"I agree!"

The president also didn't want to waste this opportunity as if afraid that Ray would change his mind and immediately took ray's hand.

"Well then, it's good to be working with you, Ray."

The things that needed to be said had been said, so the president got up from his seat.

"If that's the case, then I wouldn't be bothering you anymore. So I should get going now."

"Thank you for your time," Ray said politely.

Ray got up along with the president and was about to take him outside when the president stopped and pulled something out from his inner pocket.

"Ah.. I almost forget. Please take this."

It was a business card.

'…..?'

"If you require my assistance, don't hesitate and give me a call."

The president was smiling brightly.

Ray was one of the men with the brightest future in Indonesia, and the president definitely wouldn't want Ray to get an accident.

Although he still couldn't fully trust Ray, he somehow believed that this man in front of him didn't have any hostile intention toward Indonesia.

"Oh, by the way.."

But the moment Ray was about to take the business card from the president, the president suddenly burst out his aura once more.

"If you are only playing around with Kei's heart, I will make sure that you will pay for everything you did!"

Yup, this time the threat was real, and Ray could feel all his nape was shivering.

It was the first time he felt this much killing intent, and his knees had almost gone limp.

Luckily, the president soon stopped the aura as he saw Ray was looking at him with a trace of horror.

"Hahahaha, take that as my warning, kid. Kei is the daughter of my best friend, and even though he had long gone, I won't let her daughter suffer!"

Along with that, the president left the orphanage and went back to his car.