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Chapter 68 - Spiral

Nixxin walks on a dark, narrow street, bringing a plastic bag; he is the only one lighting the street. He sees a shadow moving in his peripheral vision; Nixxin runs faster as he feels a presence of someone. Nixxin slides to the floor and enters a narrow gap. Nixxin goes straight out of the shop; an owner and a customer are staring at him. He walks to the left, and he sees a man with a gun who just crashed his truck and is causing havoc; some people don't run. Nixxin continues to walk faster; when he steps on a rope that pulls him to a dark back alley, Nixxin kicks a man that pulls him, unties his foot, and goes out of the back alley.

A man goes out of a door. "Want some?" He is selling drugs... To a kid.

Nixxin has been here for a month; why would a girl like being here? He doesn't know, but there's no reason for it for him to follow. Nixxin climbs a stair; when a man falls, he steps back and climbs the other stair. Nixxin goes to the rooftop and knocks at the door, "Here's your order, sir."

The door opens, and he gives 5 bucks. Nixxin jumps from the rooftop and accidentally falls on someone's car. The man gets angry and tries to smash a mace, but Nixxin jumps on his face and jumps down and kicks him on his back. Nixxin goes to the nearby back alley. Nixxin runs on the dark alley and opens a door; it is a hub, people inside partying.

Nixxin goes to the back and jumps off the fence, and he raises the curtain, goes out to another shop. Nixxin goes out of the shop and picks up an apple at the shop. Nixxin jumps in a motor and gives five bucks, "To the nearest hero guild."

The motor drops Nixxin; the guild house is smaller than expected. Nixxin opens the door. Should I find another hero guild to be in? Nixxin opened it; he saw 4 people sitting, looking at him. Nixxin closed it; they looked weak. Nixxin knock on a door, "It's Nixxin Wia."

The door opened and he entered, "Hey Wia, can you cook this?"

Wia stands up from the couch and Nixxin lies on the couch, "What can we cook from that?", Wia looks at him, "I don't know, I just cook what I want."

Nixxin sit up, "What about what I want?"

After Nixxin eat, he goes out to a back alley, to a underground, it is full of people, most of them using magic, one grabbed him, "Hey man, we have good news for you."

They entered a room, where there's many soldier inside, "Sir, this is the young man I said that was very useful. Not only that, this kid is tiered as 6 clearing Branch area type hero, which means, this inexperienced delivery guy, have a chance to kill you on one on one match general."

Nixxin's pulse rises as he got shock by what his boss says, then the general walks closer and tapped his soldier, "Your name is Nixxin, they said, you're strong kid and also a hero, but isn't betrayal that you work for here."

Nixxin looks at the general, "You see, I just need money, I can report this on hero foundation, and let this business of yours crumble, as police enter and search this place, I am area clearer after all."

The general step back, "Have you use this drug, you deliver these drugs right?", The drug is a injection with a spiral inside it, "I could give you many of these things to start your own business, all you have to do is stay silent, and sell these, then I will give you 40% of our product and you don't have to pay."

Nixxin looks around, "What does that drug do?"

The general looks at the seller that brought Nixxin there, "Uhh, w-well you see. It primally target the brains so we can use magic without actually having the ability to do, it was use in military training and wars that's why general has these."

Nixxin looks around, give me a room in here, and I will sell the 40%, "how much does this price?"

The seller looks at him, "It cost 30 per injection but I sell it for 50."

The general stand up, "I will give you 4K injection."

Nixxin got shock by it, but he can't sell it alone, selling 4k is simply impossible for me, "Alright deal, I just need a storage room in here."

Nixxin left the room, then he goes out of the back alley, how do I sell it? Well, to sell I need more people to sell or, buyer with many money, I have to do a research. Nixxin goes to a elevator, there's hundreds of people in the elevator, this is going to under floor, the metallic ground is just a place where people live, and there's 100 floor, Nixxin live in floor 20 and to go to floor 19 the elevator last for an hour, the elevator opened, they're in the floor 19, it doesn't look different from floor 20, Nixxin walks to a near house and knock, the door opened, and Nixxin ask, "Is there a drug dealer here?"

The man got confused by what Nixxin said, 'Hey kid, watch your mouth. If I were a police officer, I would arrest you. You're lucky I'm not, but the drug store I last bought from was already closed a month ago after getting caught, and I'm still finding a new one."

The man shut the door, Nixxin took a bus, and dropped in an unknown place. He went to the back alleys. Why the hell is this full of back alleys? Nixxin went down to a stair and opened a door. It was a bar. Nixxin went to the bartender, "Is there some drugs here?"

The bartender looked around. "Do you have parents? Or some police with you?"

Nixxin looks up. "Do I look like I have a parent?'"

The bartender looks at him, "You look like a slave boy, but we do have a lot in here, and also we have a lot of women."

Nixxin stands, "I just want to see the boss here; I can introduce him to better drugs."

The bartender points to a room, "Ignore the girls."

Nixxin approaches the room, Nixxin raises the curtain, and a guard stops him. Nixxin pulls the arm and steps on its back, "I just like to trade."

One girl tries to stop Nixxin, "What are these disgusting succubi you have?"

A man stands up from a bed. "What is it you like to trade, kid?"

Nixxin goes out of the room and sits on a chair. "You own this place?"

The man looks around, "Yeah, you know kid, the only reason I don't attack you is because you fucked up my bodyguard, so please hurry up."

The man sits beside him; the bartender gives him and Nixxin drinks. "I just wanted to sell 4K drugs worth 120K for only 160K."

The man stands up, "That's bullshit."

Nixxin takes out an injection. "This is the bullshit."

The man looks at it, "What does that do?"

Nixxin stabs it at the bartender's hand and injects it. The bartender screams in pain. Nixxin looks back at the bartender. "Try to use magic."

The bartender tries to punch Nixxin. The man throws a cup at the bartender. "He tries to use magic."

The bartender gets angry, but he can't. The bartender cuts his hand; the blood goes out, but it floats. The man gets shocked and happy by it. "Where did you get this?

Nixxin looks at him. "None of your business, just meet me at Commercials 199, floor 20, at the northeast side, near residential 200, tomorrow."

Nixxin walks away, and he hears, "I'll buy it for 150k!"

Nixxin goes out of the room and takes a bus. Nixxin lies on the couch, and Wia hits him with a pillow. "Where did you go?"

Nixxin looks at him smiling. "I got easy money."

Wia looks at him. "How much? Where did you get it?"

Nixxin sits up. "It was 150K."

Wia jumps around at excitement. "Yesss, we're rich. Wait, is that illegal money?"

Nixxin looks at her. "it is still money."

Nixxin stands up. "Let's go out, and tomorrow, maybe I will try to find and buy a house; next month I will sell it; I'll buy a car."

Wia follows him outside. "Hey, you should thank me; I brought you up here."

Nixxin looks back. "No thanks; I still love breathing fresh air below."

They go down the stairs, and a taxi opens. "Wow."

They enter the taxi. "Sir, how do you know whose people to service? What if we just want to walk?"

The driver looks back, "I just stop, and most of the time, they took a taxi."

Wia looks outside, "We're going to floor 51."

Nixxin looks at Wia, "Don't we just have to take the elevator?"

Wia looks at him. "It will take us 2 days just to get to floor 51 if we go to the elevator."

The driver looks at the mirror. "In a taxi, it will only last for 8 hours, and 4 without traffic. Are you new here?"

Wia looks around outside; actually, "he has only been here for 2 months."

Nixxin tries to sleep, "Ahhh, whatever."

Wia pulls his head and puts it on her thighs, "Hey, we're too close for 2 months, friend. I think you're a succubus."

Wia slaps him, "I will wake you up once we're on the spiral road."

Nixxin looks at her, "What is that road?"

Wia looks around. "It's the road that connects every floor; it is spiral, making it look endless, and the floor around the road is full of commercial cities. It was really beautiful to see, and mostly when you're driving without traffic on a motorcycle. Although there's 20 Spiral Road, there's only one that was really loved because of its city lights and towering buildings near it."

Nixxin looked outside. "Have you tried?"

Wia looks down on him. "Yes, but not in a motor."

Nixxin tried to practice it again. It's been 3 months, yet he can't gain freewill fuel. Nixxin looks at himself. He tried to move it near Wia's abdomen; it actually turned. Nixxin looks at his arm. What the hell? Is this it? Is this how Sats earn freewill fuel? Nixxin goes outside the bus, can get through anything, and he sees many bubbles. While the taxi is moving, many bubbles go inside him, but most of them are just small bubbles. 'Yesss, I finally go out of my bodyyyyyyy!'

Nixxin woke up. "You woke up. I'm about to wake up, but it's okay. We're near the spiral road."

The taxi opened its top; it has transparent glass. 'We're at a commercial city. It's already beautiful in here. You guys are lucky that the sun is on the other part. You guys will see the city light.' Nixxin looks around. "How expensive is the cost of living in spiral roadside cities?"

The cities are still dark, but compared to the near residential areas they live in, they are still beautiful. "I don't live in expensive cities; as far as I know, these places are owned. Most of these are owned by state developers; well, they are great state developers, but not the greatest, like I-water."

They start to rise up the spiral road; the road turns invisible so people can see below, the city lights blindingly beautiful. Nixxin looks at Wia, looking around in the window. "Wia, where would you like to eat? I still have 4K in my wallet; I guess I could treat you."

Wia looks back. "I don't know; I just want to go everywhere."

Nixxin looks at Wia looking at a picture of the place. "You know, you look hopeless and weak, so I followed you up here."

Nixxin looks at the driver, who took out a shade while driving. "Don't mind me, kids."

Wia looks back again and takes out a picture of Nixxin near the city light. "I know, I don't want to go with my mom, so can you always help me?"

Nixxin looks at her eyes. "Can I see the picture?"

Wia showed his phone, "I look like an ass."

Wia hugs Nixxin at his neck, and Nixxin hugs her back at her waist, "Why would I hug an ass?" A stunningly beautiful light comes from above as it mixes with the light below; they ascend to floor 21.

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