Cheat Awakening-Chapter 541 - . New World

Although the security at the gate of the white marble building was quite heavy, Clone Myne was dumbfounded when he walked to the main gate to try his luck. None of the guards stopped or checked him as he approached. They ignored him completely as if he were invisible.

Although it was unimaginable how careless they were regarding such an important place, given the single portal and the constant influx of people travelling between worlds, it is understandable that they couldn’t check everyone. But then again, if they didn’t take any person coming and going seriously, then why were there so many guards standing there in the first place?

Wasn’t it simply a waste of human resources?

Nevertheless, Myne easily slipped into the marble building and found himself in a vast hall. In the centre stood a colossal, seven-meter-tall mechanical circle-shaped blue portal devise covered in countless runes.

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A fat man sat beside the portal with two bodyguards on the small wooden desk, recording the names and purposes of those using the portal and collecting blue crystal-like material, which seemed to be everywhere in this cave and was the primary material the workers were mining.

Instead of rushing towards the portal, Myne observed the hall, which could easily accommodate over a thousand people. On the left side were registration booths, similar to an adventurer’s guild, where people could register for jobs or accept various missions.

On the right was a trading platform where people used some kind of metal card-like thing to purchase items, and obviously Myne had no idea what or how those card systems worked. But after observing for a few minutes, he realised that those people didn’t seem to accept blue crystals as currency, which ruined his plan of robbing a random warehouse and getting rich in minutes.

Initially, Myne intended to visit the trading platform to see if anything interesting was available, but upon seeing the metal card system, he changed his mind. and approached a rogue-looking guy in a black robe who had written bad guy’ all over his face. After a friendly hit of hypnosis skill, Myne "borrowed" some money from him to pay the travel toll.

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Next, instead of exploring further, he went directly to the fat man in charge of the portal.

"Name and purpose?" The fat man asked without even looking up, continuing to read a book written in an unknown language. While the basic language used in the world of the church of Pain was the same, it seemed they used an official language for everything else.

"Myne Fortuna. My purpose is to visit a friend," he replied. Because his real purpose wasn’t friendly at all, Myne didn’t dare reveal it, fearing they might get gang up on the spot and beaten to death, after all, everyone knows that most of the cultists are psychopathic.

Also from the technical perspective he didn’t lie, since he knew someone from June, who was now his woman, they could be considered long-distance friends. As for how long their friendship would last after they met was a different story.

The fat man seemed to have heard this answer countless times. He continued reading without looking up, yet, with surprising skill, he opened the register, dipped a quill in ink, and wrote down Myne’s name and purpose. His handwriting was neat, much to the surprise of the half-illiterate rich guy whose own handwriting resembled worms crawling across the page.

The fat man then tapped his finger on the table twice, a gesture Myne didn’t understand at all.

Confused, Myne waited for the other party to speak. From his perspective, knocking on the table meant trying to get someone’s attention before saying something important.

After a minute of awkward silence, neither the fat man nor his bodyguards made any further movement, leaving Myne standing there with a confused expression. The two bodyguards behind the fat man shook their heads in disbelief, cursing Myne in their hearts and wondering where this idiot had come from.

Finally, one of the guards, Guard A, came over and whispered that Myne had to pay two blue crystals if he wanted to pass through the portal. Only then did Myne understand the hidden meaning behind the finger tapping.

"You guys should have just told me directly! How was I supposed to know your secret gesture?" Myne complained in a low voice as he placed the two blue crystals he had "borrowed" from a kind-hearted person onto the table and walked into the portal.

Behind him, the fat man and his two bodyguards had black lines forming on their foreheads. After all, asking for a fee to use the portal was illegal, and they were doing it behind the church’s back. How could they have the guts to openly demand money? In order to save their asses if things get wrong, they had to give 80% of their earnings to their superiors.

If they started blatantly asking for toll money in broad daylight, wouldn’t that just be asking for death?

Not knowing that a group of trio is cursing his entire family to death, Myne passes through the portal and arrives in an identical-looking building. However, this one was even grander, larger, more luxurious, and brighter than the one in the cave. Even the quality of women is much higher—within a minute, he spots more than three women who fit his type, making his eyes light up instantly.

As he observed the familiar surroundings, Myne exited the building and was immediately struck by the sight of two suns directly in front of him. it seems time is different between both worlds, where his world is having midnight, here is afternoon. Towering structures, at least a dozen stories high, dominated the skyline, far surpassing anything he had ever seen in his own world.

"Damn it, I really am in another world. Why does travelling to different worlds seem easier than finding a girlfriend nowadays?" Myne couldn’t help but complain as he looked around at the strange buildings and mechanical carriages that ran automatically without horses pulling them.

People wore odd clothes—half of them looked like employees of the church wearing all kinds of robes hiding their entire body except their head even women were no exception making someone very disappointed.

While the rest seemed to be servants have no particular fixed clothes, they wore mixed clothes. The roads were paved with bricks, clean, and tidy, lined with organized stalls and shops on both sides.

The currency used here was the same as in the white building behind him, and everyone carried metal cards for transactions. Myne had no idea what these cards were, so he asked the kind-hearted passerby and learned that they were similar to the ones used by the adventurer’s guild of his world but more advanced and secure.

However, what made him grit his teeth was that these cards required authorization and registration, meaning he couldn’t simply borrow someone else’s and use it as he wished. He would need to obtain his own card and recharge it with credit before making any purchases.

Fortunately, gold was also a valuable currency in this world, and there were plenty of good things he could sell, so becoming randomly low-level rich was no problem. After thinking for a while, Myne asked the passerby for directions on where he could get this card and soon ended up in front of an ancient, ten-story-tall pagoda-like building.

Since Clone Myne was no different from a country bumpkin in this world, having never seen such advanced architecture, his jaw dropped so wide that passersby wondered if he was having some kind of health problem. After all, to them, this was just an ordinary building, nothing extraordinary.

There were many structures even taller than this one, so it was natural for them to find Myne’s reaction unusual.

Oh my God, how did these people build this thing? Do the people of this world all have good skills that they use in construction rather than fighting monsters? Myne thought, scratching the back of his head in amazement as he walked into the wooden pagoda. Because he was wearing a black robe, the most common civilian dress, no one paid any attention to him.

In fact, the six guards at the entrance didn’t even open their eyes to look at him, continuing to pretend to sleep in order to maintain their cool image.

The main hall of the pagoda was bustling with activity. People were running left and right, and every receptionist counter had a long line of customers—each line had at least 20 people. The business was thriving, and since this card trading and maintenance building was a civilian platform rather than a private one, everyone was treated equally, at least on the surface level.

Myne, who had been accustomed to living a luxurious life where everywhere he went people would come to greet him and do everything to please him, was disappointed by the lack of attention. He could only sigh helplessly and join the queue.

While waiting, he didn’t forget to observe his surroundings. Everything in this world was new and fascinating to him. If it weren’t for the fact that he was penniless, he would’ve already started a heart-to-heart conversation in some high-end hotel with a beautiful, long-legged, big boobies, hot body big sister to gather information about this world.

As for why he didn’t use his hypnosis skill on someone wealthy to get some assistance—it was because, in this world, both his hypnosis and appraisal skills were performing very poorly. People with low will or mental power were easy to hypnotize, but when it came to individuals with strong will and mental strength, the effects were easily broken.

While on his way to this building, he had tried to hypnotize some beautiful wealthy women to support him, but sadly, none stayed under his control for more than a minute. In the end, he could only lower his head and wait in line honestly.

"It seems like I have to level up all my important skills. Just having them at level one or two isn’t enough to mess with random people on the street, let alone big shots," Clone Myne muttered with a sigh, while watching a beautiful big sister laughing and hugging a 300-pound, 2.3-meter-tall fatty whose eyes were deeply hidden by his mass that couldn’t even be seen.

He wore golden rings on all his fingers and a beautiful big sister in his arms looked like a little girl in front of the man. Myne could only sigh in his heart, realizing that the women in this world were very open-minded and willing to do anything for money.