Elemental Warriors Online

Buying Properties, Buying Problems

Cassius would have tried to pacify the angered overseer, but his voice was so high pitched it sounded like a three year old screaming. It reminded Naruto of an Indian pirate he once heard talk in an old pirate movie about the Caribbean. This guy was definitely designed after Sri Sumbaji. It took all of Cassius's willpower to not roll over laughing, so he only coughed a few times to get the laughter out of his system.

“ My name is Cassius Windwalker good sir and I bid you a good evening.”

“ Evening? you i***t it’s the middle of the Night.”

Cassius was twitching, the green display above this guys head meant he was not hostile to him. But why would the midget with the voice of a girl call him an i***t. He did not do anything wrong, did he?

“I apologize for disturbing your beauty sleep good sir, but as you can see I am a vampire, there’s no better time for people of my race to commit to business ventures unless under the cover of darkness and the light of the moon..”

“ Enough with the ass kissing and flowery words, this is the slums we don’t care for such ceremony here. Now what the f**k do you want?”

If this balloon of a midget was not so rude, Cassius might have actually respected his straightforward character. But at the moment Cassius wanted to drain him dry. Well then guess its down to business.

“I believe an associate of mine by the Name of Monkey paid you a visit this afternoon.”

“The blue annoying Hawk that can talk?”

At Cassius's nod of confirmation he continued.

“Yes the freak came around, but that was yesterday afternoon not today. So you are the bloke looking for a big and cheap property to lay low in.”

“That is not the word I will use, but that’s the general idea. Do you have something for me overseer?”

“As a matter of fact I do, it’s actually the mansion of a duke who died in battle twenty years ago. But there’s just one problem, its infested with Goblins.”

Cassius was surprised, this was the second time a building in the city was infested by rather unsavory creatures. As far as a city was concerned such things should not exist. The guards should have exterminated these monsters already.

“But how is it possible for such monsters to be in the city. And why have the guards not made a move to rid you people of it?”

The overseer extended gut jiggled as he prepared to answer Cassius’s questions. Cassius however immediately regretted asking. It seemed this guy was someone who liked to talk.

“Well the monsters are there because the old master of the house was a scientist of sort. Their family had been good friends with the chairman of the magic university Ryouzen Nagashiki. But that university is all the way up in the area where the nobility and upper class lived.

They built this mansion as a hide out and lab to conduct their otherwise unsavory experiments. And with it located in the slums, they had no shortage of human test subjects and guinea pigs. After the duke died the mansion fell to the beasts that they had been in experimenting on.

But since the beasts did not leave the mansion, and only chose to stay in its vicinity, the powers that be decided that it should be left alone. The deed to the mansion was given to the overseer, which is me of course to do as he liked with it. But as the guards would not clear the monsters, it became a place of training for adventurers and the stuck up children of nobility who need training before they leave town. And that’s how it has been for twenty years.

But occasionally a monster or two will escape from the mansion and go on a killing spree. Of course it would be stopped but not before a few dozen helpless kids and adults are slaughtered. Its even more worse for the girls. Goblins will f**k anything that is female and moves, even animals. So it is always a time of trauma when that happens. Its why I just want to sell the mansion to someone who could foot the bill for the subjugation of the monsters…. Permanently!”

Cassius tried to analyze the overseer’s story from a different angle. And while it made sense the amount of neglect showed by the nobles for the well being of the common folk would definitely spark a rebellion. Not to mention the slums made up half if not more of the population of Eko city.

This news had planted another seed of an idea in Cassius's head. Why just settle for having influence and being the head of a spy organization. Why not be the head of a kingdom. Of course there were other factors to be considered, but in the end if he should be able to garner the support of the common folk, he could very well take over the city.

“So how much am I required to pay for the Mansion.” Cassius asked.

The overseer was genuinely surprised as his eyebrows went up so far it could have been a distinguishing line for his missing hair.

“You are going to buy it, after everything I just told you. Clearing that mansion of the goblins will take a fortune out of your pocket. I don’t think nobles such as yourself will have any Need for it, unless for some unsavory business, but that is just too much trouble and loss to go through for that mansion.”

The overseer spoke in a mocking tone. Cassius was still clothed with rags he had on when he first spawned, so he was sure he looked just as comical and ridiculous as the overseer. Even more worse was the tone of voice Cassius chose to use. A noble dressed like a beggar, or a beggar trying to be civil by speaking posh words.

“First of all Good Sir, I am a traveler not a noble. And in my world things are as hard there as it is here. The rich and nobles do not care about the less privileged. There’s not much I can do in my world, but there is much I can do here.

I have great hopes for the people of this world, I want them to be better, and I want to change the stories of all those people who have been dealt a bad hand in life. And my first order of business will be to destroy every beast in that mansion so that the streets will be safe once again.

I understand that there have been a lot of killings lately. As such someone has to put a stop to this horror.”

If it were possible Cassius would give himself an Oscar for best performing actor. Even he could not help but feel his heart thump with excitement from his inspirational speech. He had this leader stuff mastered to a t. But the overseer did not see it that way.

“Pretty speech you got there, how many hours did you spend practicing it in front of your mirror.”

If Cassius's mouth should fall any lower, he would definitely loose it. What kind of thick skinned bastard is this. He was completely unmoved by he’s silvery speech. It took a considerably smount of time for Cassius to get himself out of his stupor and through it all the overseer was watching him with undisguised amusement.

“How much is required of me to purchase the Mansion. No need to worry yourself about the funds required to clear it out. I will do it myself.”

“Oh really? well suit yourself then. The price is seven gold coin and there’s no bargaining with me. Take it or leave it.”

Cassius immediately took out the gold coins and flicked it to the overseer with all the nonchalance he could muster. This time it was the overseer who was stupefied. He probably did not expect Cassius to be wealthy enough to pay for the mansion up front.

Of course the cost was way below one percent of what it would have sold for in the past. If the mansion was only dilapidated without the goblin infestation, Cassius would have had to pay any thing from two hundred gold to a thousand if not more. But this was the slums, and no matter how fat, round and well off the overseer seemed. Seven gold coins was a lot of money to them.

The overseer spat in anger. If he knew Cassius could easily foot the bill he would have asked for a higher price. But the overseer was a rather straight forward Man regardless of all his shady dealings he’d like to believe himself a honest person. Leaving Cassius still standing on his doorstep, right next to the passed out guard he went in to retrieve the deed, and prepare a document of sale and transfer of ownership.

Unlike the current state of the mansion the deed was in much better shape. It seemed to be made of some sort of oiled plastic paper. The overseer had him drop some blood on it and the deed was automatically bound to him. Next Cassius signed the documents that showed he had bought the mansion and proved he was now the owner.

This pair of documents through some sort of enchantment split itself into three copies. On of them will go into the kingdom's National archive located in the National library, next to the university of business, way up from the third sector of the city where the royal family and all the high leveled government workers and adventurers lived.

[[SYSTEM ALERT!!: WORLD ALERT!!:]]

CASSIUS WINDWALKER HAS PURCHASED THE DEED TO THE INSTANCE DUNGEON LUGARD MANSION. AS SUCH IT IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE TO OTHER PLAYERS. CASSIUS MIGHT ISSUE A QUEST IN THE ADVENTURERS GUILD FOR A SUBJUGATION MISSION IN THE MANSION FOR A SUM OF TWO HUNDRED GOLD COINS. ALL ADVENTURERS TRAVELER AND NPC ALIKE CAN PARTICIPATE. BUT IF CASSIUS CAN NOT GIVE AND PAY FOR THE QUEST, HE WOULD BE REQUIRED TO GET A PARTY AND CLEAR THE DUNGEON AT THE HIGHEST DIFFICULTY POSSIBLE TO OBTAIN OWNERSHIP COMPLETELY.( note, every ten hours a monster will escape from the mansion and attack the city. If this happens three times Cassius will be arrested and fined. If it happens five times, Cassius will be severely penalized and the deed would be seized.)

[FOR BEING THE FIRST TO PURCHASE A DUNGEON YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE TITLE DUNGEON MASTER. +10 TO ALL STATS +200% TO ALL STATS WHEN YOU ARE WITHIN THE VICINITY AND INTERIOR OF YOUR DUNGEON. +5% TO ALL EXP GAINS, LOOT DROPS AND STAT BONUSES IN ALL DUNGEONS.]

Cassius dismissed the alert as he ran like the wind for the western part of the slums. Buying the instance dungeon was something the system apparently did not want. As such it had painted a target on his back. There were a lot of players in Eko city, about two thousand or so, of course most of them had left already. But there were others, some even formed guilds and if they so chose they could capture Cassius, make sure he gets arrested enough times for the deed to be taken away from him, buy it themselves, clear the dungeon and have themselves a spiffy base to use as they please.

Cassius could not allow that to happen. If he was in the vicinity of the mansion no one will dare harm him, or even be capable enough to do so. But it was going to take a fight to get there. The system may have increased the difficulty required to own this dungeon, but it also gave him the strength to fight back. With the title he has, he did not need a party to clear that dungeon. He could do it all by himself.