?264 Chapter 264 – New Home
After using several Extractors to test the can, Nick came to a conclusion.
The can was most likely a Mid Adolescent.
It managed to break Trevor's toe, but it also hit the wall with a lot of force, scratching its outside.
Luckily, the dents and scratches vanished after a couple of hours.
The next few days were not the happiest for the Extractors.
A great number of them had broken toes since Nick experimented with the can by using his employees.
Luckily, Peak Newbies could recover from a broken toe within two weeks due to their faster regeneration.
Nick only needed about three days to recover.
After some days, Nick finally finished experimenting on the can.
First of all, he gave it the official designation of the Can.
The Can produced Zephyx according to the number and strength of broken toes.
If Nick broke a toe, it would produce around 50 grams of Zephyx.
If an Initial John broke their toe, it produced about ten grams.
There was no hard limit to the times someone could work with the Can.
The only limit was the number of remaining healthy toes and the health of the Can.
The Can could be kicked by thousands of people thousands of times a day without receiving damage.
However, after Trevor sacrificed his toes, it became clear that Mid Johns could only kick the Can a maximum of three times a day before its condition became too damaged.
In the end, Nick decided to not assign anyone to the Can.
Instead, he made working with it an option for every Extractor working for Dark Dream.
Forcing someone to break one of their bones regularly was not something Nick was comfortable with.
Even though it could be perceived as humorous to break one's toes while kicking a can, it was legitimately painful.
So, Nick left the Can open.
If anyone wanted to advance faster in level and earn some extra Zephyx, they were allowed to work with the Can.
However, their assigned duties were not allowed to suffer as a result.
In the beginning, almost everyone worked with the Can at least once.
It was a couple thousand credits for one kick.
But over the weeks, things calmed down.
In the end, only a couple of Extractors regularly kicked the Can.
Those were the ones who wanted to become stronger quickly.
With the addition of the Can, Dark Dream now had twelve Specters.
Dark Dream had grown a lot.
Twelve Specters, 24 Zephyx Extractors, 50 Investigators, over 30 clerks, 25 guards.
Dark Dream had over 120 employees.
There were so many employees that Nick even started to have trouble remembering all the names.
Eventually, he only focused on remembering the names of the Zephyx Extractors.
As Nick was walking home, he sighed.
He felt like he was shirking his responsibilities by not remembering all the names.
Of course, he knew that it wasn't his responsibility to know the name of every employee, but he still felt like he wasn't doing his best.
Nick walked towards the east for a couple of minutes.
Naturally, he was no longer living in the hotel across the street from the old warehouse.
After a while of walking, Nick reached his home.
At the edge between the Outer City and the Dregs was a two-
story house made of metal.
While all the metal in the surroundings was rusty, the metal the house was made out of wasn't.
Additionally, the house also looked beautiful and clean.
In fact, it looked even better than the average house in the Outer City.
Nick had commissioned someone to construct this house about two years ago.
Naturally, with his status and his wealth, Nick could splurge a lot.
For example, the house was made of steel instead of metal.
Steel was so hard that even a Peak Newbie couldn't break through it with just their fists.
Nick could damage it, but he needed to actually try to damage it.
However, that wasn't the expensive part of the house.
As Nick reached his home, he jumped up and landed on its roof.
From there, Nick could see his backyard.
It was over 50 meters long and wide, and the floor was made of stainless steel!
This was the expensive part of the house!
While no one needed to buy space in the Dregs, this location was too close to the Outer City.
Every month, Nick had to pay a couple thousand credits to the city for his backyard, but that barely tickled him.
By now, Nick was earning almost a million credits per month.
He was earning more than 90% of the people in the lower layer of the Inner City.
But he didn't care that much about it.
Nick's focus was still on his power and Dark Dream's power.
The more powerful he and Dark Dream were, the more they could do to improve the lives of people.
After taking some breaths, Nick jumped into his backyard.
At the moment, his backyard was filled with several huge pieces of rusty metal.
Nick had been using these pieces as punching bags.
Sadly, most of them had become too damaged to use them as punching bags, which meant that Nick had to clean his backyard now.
After Nick landed in his backyard, he grabbed one of the pieces to move it.
The piece was surprisingly heavy.
Usually, he could just throw them to the side.
That was when Nick realized that his ability hadn't reactivated.
It was normal for Nick's ability to be deactivated while he was walking home or standing on his house, but it always reactivated when he was in his backyard.
After all, it was surrounded by big walls made of steel.
It was very unusual for Nick's ability to still be deactivated while inside his backyard.
Nick quickly looked around.
No one was on top of his steel walls.
No one was in his backyard.
Then, Nick looked at his house.
'Someone is definitely here, and the fact that they have not greeted me yet means that they are not here just to talk!'