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Hey guys, I edited the previous chapter a bit, so if you want, you can check it again. But I will tell you now, it is irrelevant.

Also, In response to a recent review, I will tell you now that the slice of life thing won't last for too long. I am trying to make things as realistic as possible, so going into details is inevitable. I can in theory just go ahead and summarize what he does in an entire year in just a few paragraphs like a generic lazy author, But where is the fun in that? It would also waste so much writing potential. There would be, of course, time skips whenever I can allow it. Like in his stay in Texas for 2 months, I would time-skip things whenever I can. Or when he trains. Or just the passing of time in general.

In any case, those who don't really enjoy that, bear with it for now. It won't last past this ark.

After Eli and Isabella exited the cafeteria, and Isabella asked Eli, "So Eli... When do I start to work? And where am I supposed to live until then? Do I need to sign anything?"

"I will take care of your lodging. You will live here in the hotel until the 6th, and I will pay for it, including food. I will also give you $1k for the time being, which will serve as your living expenses. On the 6th, we will take a flight to Houston in Texas, I will tell you the exact time after I book the tickets. You will need to sign a so-called "nanny contract", detailing your work schedule, wage, job responsibilities, benefits/reimbursement, etc. As a household employee, as well as an American citizen, you will also need to pay your taxes to social security, medical care, and income taxes, But I will just hire someone from payroll to handle it for both of us. I, on the other hand, will need to register as an employer though, and also pay for your insurance. I will need your legal documents for that, so please send fetch them for me, and we will do this together."

Isabella nodded and headed to the room. In the meantime, Eli went to the reception desk and requested them to print a few documents. Most hotels that have 3 stars and above have a free printing service. Eli printed the necessary contract template for a nanny and then filled it with the necessary details. The details were basically as he stated before, and the work hours could be considered very flexible. She only had to clean up to 2 hours a day, clean the car, feed and walk any possible pets, do the laundry, buy groceries once a week, and cook breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The rest of the time could be considered as her own free time, and she could do whatever she wanted in the house. She would need to work 6 out of 7 days, and not more than 8 hours a day for a total of up to 48 hours a week. However, he also specified that the end of her employment would be on 2/1/2023. This was to make sure that she would stay in the house during the mana wave.

Isabella, who already came down with all the legal documents, read the contract carefully. When she finished reading it and saw nothing out of the ordinary, she signed it. Eli then went to a printer in the hotel, and copied the contract, keeping the original with himself, and giving the copy to Isabella.

After that, Eli went to the reception desk and extended the stay for the room he got by a day, and checked if there were any other available rooms. Luckily, a room just next to his own room vacated this morning, so he immediately asked to register it too for 5 days. After paying the receptionist, he took Isabella's documents and filled out the necessary details through the official website. It took around 2 hours to finish everything, including the contracts, getting an employer license, and hiring payroll. He also transferred the $1k to Isabella's bank account, but she could not check it due to her not having a sim card, so he told her to get a universal sim card, in case they travel a lot.¹Forgive me if I didn't write any other legal document needed for this. I actually did my research for a full hour. Perhaps I missed something and didn't write it. Take it with a pinch of salt.

After Isabella left, it was now 11 am. Eli returned to his room started planning on what he should do in the meantime. Right now he had no way to use 'Time Stipend', and that means that if he continues doing big gang raids on large or medium rackets, he might get shot by a stray bullet if he was not careful. Even if regular bullets to the body won't kill him, it would not be a pleasant experience, and it would be bad if someone saw him injured from a gunshot, although the blood would get collected inside the evidence ring. This means that he will need to limit his raids to smaller rackets, or just lone individuals.

However, he could also do other things besides killing in this one month. For starters, he wanted to go to Las Vegas, and gamble to earn money. While he is in Vegas, he had to avoid killing so as not to leave too many tracks on his traveling. If he left a path of carnage wherever he went, the FBI will track him down through the simple method of filtering, and then he would be in trouble he did not want to enter. So in fact, in the long run, it was better to not kill anyone after he left for Texas. Or at least not until the time period for his skill went off cooldown. And that means, he will need to make the most out of the current time he had in the Bronx and kill as many as possible to get more points, but at the same time, do it smartly, and only target smaller rackets.

However, to do this, he would need more time for killing people, and the only way to do this was to buy the second Stealth-boy. Eli did not do this before, because he was not pressed for time before, was not as evolved as he was now, and could simply raid the large and medium rackets, where the population was dense. However, he was now in a rush to get as many points before he leaves. He spent 10 points and bought another lvl 1 Stealth-boy, leaving him with 57 points. Now, he could do the killings for 6 hours in a day, instead of 3.

After he bought it, he did not immediately run off to massacre. He first took out a note that a certain Vixen left in his pocket last night. He then called the number written on it...

Vivian was currently in her room, lying belly down on her bed, hugging a pillow directly on her face, and muttering, "So embarrassing, so embarrassing, so embarrassing..."

Last night, she teased Eli when they were eating dinner together, and that was fine. But she didn't have the courage to confess to him, so she drank wine to ramp up her courage and got drunk. The result? She ended up kissing him, and in such a passionate way too! In truth, she bi-sexual and experimented with other girls. But with boys? They were either too scared of her background or didn't suit her tastes. As a result, she didn't go further than teasing them visually and holding their hand at most. But now, she kissed a guy for the first time. She was now afraid of what Eli might think of her...

She thought to herself, "What if he thinks I am a loose woman and decides to end the relationship there? Or maybe just see me as a sex object to be dumped later? I want a long-term and stable relationship with him, not to become some sort of one-night stand or sex friend!"

As she was wallowing in an endless pit of overthinking things, her phone ringed. She picked up the phone that was right beside her and saw an unfamiliar number. She then remembered that she also gave him her phone number, and told him explicitly to call her today! She immediately sat straight, arranged her clothes and hair, and answered the phone.

"Hello, Vivian? It's me, Eli."

Vivian's heart immediately jumped, she tucked her hair behind her ear as she replied, "Hey Eli, how is it going?"

"Haha, great, how are you?"

And so, they engaged in some small talk for about 2 minutes, before Eli asked, "Hey, are you free this afternoon?"

Vivian began twirling her hair, nervous and expectant, as an involuntary smile formed on her face, "Yes, I am free. Why ask?"

"Wanna go to get some coffee and chat? I know a great place, that has a good view."

The smile on her face widened, as she a rhetorical question, "Is that a date invitation?"

The voice on the other side said confidently, "Yep, so are you in?"

Even though she knew the answer, her heart skipped a beat as she immediately said, controlling her emotions as best as she could, "It's a date then! Tell me the hour and place, and I will be there."

After Eli told her the details, the call ended. The next moment, Vivian acted like a little girl, and ran out of her room yelling, "MAMA!"

After Eli closed the phone, he went downstairs. Waiting in the corridor was Isabella, who finished her errand. When she saw Eli, she went to him and smiled, waving her phone, "Eli, I got a universal SIM card as you told me to. Let's exchange numbers."

After they exchanged numbers, he told Isabella, "I am going out a bit for business. I will be back at about 3 pm and will head out again at 4:40 pm. If you need anything, tell me about it between these hours, as my phone will be on silent mode." In truth, his phone was in his room, as he was afraid of being tracked. God knows what the government is doing right now to find him.

Isabella nodded understandingly. She thought her new boss was a rich man and did business outside right now, so she just agreed and went to her room.

In the meantime, Eli walked for a few minutes and arrived in a secluded alley. There, he put on the Stealth-boy and equipment quickly and started running towards the closest Crips and Bloods rackets he memorized. He already fully memorized the map on his phone, so he had no problem arriving there.

The Crips and Bloods were mainly drug dealers, but they also did many other nasty shits. While the Bloods and Crips were not actually the same and were in fact 2 loose alliances of gangs called 'sets' that were prone to infighting, they had something in common. They all traded in the drug business. Other than that, they also had many illegal dealings and activities, some of which were just as bad as the MS-13 in a sense. There were cases where some of the sets ran brothels, and the prostitutes there were actually forced drug addicts they kidnapped from the streets, some of which were only young children. They were also in the 'arms race' of the gangs and obtained trafficked weapons, some of which were military grade.

Other than that, they were actually rather unorganized and untrained. They had many infighting and shootouts among the two large gangs, inflicting more damage on pedestrians and public property than each other. In other words, mad dogs. If the MS-13 was a semi-trained army of organized thugs, then the Crips and Bloods were just amateurs filling up the ranks with vast numbers, with few true professionals among them.

From what Eli understood, there were about 1000 Crips and Bloods gangsters in total in the Bronx area. His goal was to simply kill as many as possible before they fled. Luckily for him, the vast majority of rackets in the Bronx were small scale with few larger ones.

After 15 minutes of running, he arrived in the first small Crips hideout on the map, which was actually in an old apartment building. He did not enter conventionally, he instead went up through the emergency staircase outside the building, careful as to make as little noise as possible. Ever since he got dexterity up, his very steps were more refined, and as a result, he had a far easier time walking more silently. After a few minutes, he arrived on the 4th floor and looked right out of the window. He saw a few African American gangsters with tattoos counting cash, and some white powder that he figured was cocaine on the table, and they were inhaling it. 2 loosely dressed African American women were flirting with them, one of them took an inhale from the powder on the table, and continued laughing right after.

Eli decided he saw enough. He took out two non-silenced pistols, and pointed them to the window, and opened fire. Bang* Bang* Bang*

Thanks to his Dexterity, he could now shoot each bullet with almost laser precision, and at a far more rapid rate of fire. He shot bullets at a rate of 4 bullets per second per hand, for a total of 8 bullets per second! The only thing that limited him now was the recoil, or he would have fired at an even faster rate. Each shot hit directly at the skull of the gangsters, killing them on the spot. After only a little less than 2 seconds, 14 gangsters laid on the floor, blood and brain matter painting the walls and floor, as well as the 2 frightened girls. Eli did not know if the two were hookers or female gangsters, so he just let them go. In any case, he didn't need to think too much about it, and left.

Since Eli targeted 2 gangs now instead of 1, it was far easier to chain his killing spree more efficiently. He went to a total of 5 small rackets, netting him a total of 66 points before he went back to the hotel after he redressed himself safely in a secluded alley.

By the time he returned to the hotel, it was 2:57 pm, and he returned to his room safely. He then checked his phone that was in the charger and saw no new messages, so he just took care of his hygiene, dressed up in a not too casual but nice way, and then simply waited until 4:40 pm, before he headed on to his date.

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Current status:

Spoiler

Current date: 01/01/2022 4:40 pm

Status:

[Overall Evolution Rank: lvl 0]

[Strength lvl 0]
[Vitality lvl 1]
[Toughness lvl 0]
[Agility lvl 0]
[Dexterity lvl 1]
[Cognition lvl 1]
[Nerves lvl 1]
[Senses lvl 0]
[Instinct lvl 1]
[Immunity lvl 1]
[Mana Conductivity lvl -]
[Mana Core lvl -]
[Mana Sense lvl -]

Skills:
[Firearm Mastery lvl 0], [Athletics lvl 0], [Acrobatics lvl 0], [Medical Skills lvl 0], [Pharmacology lvl 0], [Cooking lvl 0], [Alchemy lvl 0], [Animal training lvl 0]

Unique Skills:
[Time Stipend lvl 1, Time saved: -78 minutes]

Equipment: 2*Stealthboy lvl 1, Storage ring 7 cubic meters, lvl 0 gloves + boots, lvl 1 helmet + knife, evidence collector, contraception ring, A shitton of ordinary weapons and ammunition.

Points: 123

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I have a major test 11 days from now, so expect a slow release rate.