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Chapter 9 - Humbled.

"Sir, the company you're trying to invest in is relatively new, and just this morning their share prices dropped by $15, so as a senior trader myself, I would advise you to not invest in this fake internet company." The lady kindly advised Lukas, she didn't want this young man to lose such a huge amount of money in a sham.

"Don't worry about it, just invest it, I am sure I just want to buy this company's share," Lukas said smilingly. Amazon, the world's biggest online product-selling company, will make lots of money in the coming decades.

With this investment, even if the system goes away, he can just relax and won't die starving like last time. The lady looked displeased but did what Lukas said and gave him a printed copy as well.

Lukas smiled, then took the copy and left the brokerage firm, then he took the shuttle bus and attended the next classes intently.

Today after lunch he had a class, so he went to the dining hall, ate his lunch, and went to the teachers room. Because he was a scholarship student, his university ID took two extra days, Lukas didn't mind that because he had a temporary car anyways.

After the class, as he was about to go into his dorm to take some rest, suddenly a popup came in front of him.

[Ding!! Mission: Give a trial in the tennis club. Minimum Reward: $500]

Only five hundred dollars?

Lukas, seeing the amount, was not that interested, but he wanted to try it out anyway. What if he has the greatest talent in the world once again?

Lukas went directly to his room and removed his shoulder bag and walked towards the tennis club, just like last time, there were many people on the court, and seeing Lukas, many clicked his photo with their new phones.

Lukas didn't care about it at all, he directly registered his name and entered the court. The bat felt just like baseball, unfamiliar, which gave him some courage, but he turned out to be terrible in this game.

"Get out of this court!" This is what the tennis coach said to him before he could even finish his first match.

Lukas returned to his room and contemplated what this system mission was about and what he did wrong.

Lukas, after contemplating for a while, has some guesses about what happened on the tennis court, but he was reluctant to agree on that.

[Ding!! Mission: Study for one hour. Minimum Reward: $1000]

Seeing the popup was happy, in fact too happy because that insulting tennis game made his mood terrible, so he studied hard.

[Mission Completed!! Grade: S, 4 hours and 25 minutes studied. Reward: $6000]

Seeing the cash in his hand once again, Lukas smiled, in his bank he has around five thousand, and now he has six thousand five hundred more, a huge sum of money he has now.

Lukas then went to eat, and many people were murmuring while pointing towards him in the dining hall, he ignored them and ate just by himself in the corner, then went back into his room and slept peacefully.

The next day he woke up at five in the morning, went to jog, and after jogging, did some squats, but there was no system pop-up, so he went back to his room. After locking the door, he finally heard the system notification.

[Ding!! Mission: Do 10 push-ups. Minimum Reward: $1000]

Lukas smiled broadly, this system was making his workout routine almost every day, giving him money for some new exercises, which he felt was great, and he was doing the exercises without expecting any money the next day.

[Mission Completed!! Grade: A, You've done 25 push-ups. Reward: $3000]

Lukas was sweating hard after doing those push-ups, and after taking a shower, he felt completely relaxed. Then he studied for some time before leaving for the classes, on the way, he ate some breakfast.

After classes, as he was about to go to his room to relax, a system popup came in.

[Ding!! Mission: Attend football team trial. Minimum Reward: $200]

Lukas, seeing the reward was even lower than before, rolled his eyes but went to the football field anyway to get that $200 and to see his talent in that, and after getting almost molested, he fled like a madman. Although he got that 200$ too as a reward.

Although he understood yesterday that he has immense talent in baseball and he doesn't play even decently in another sport, but he was reluctant to agree on that, today he was humbled and promised himself not to make himself a butt of the joke again.

Coming back into his room as usual, he took a shower and sat down to study, but there was no notification from the system. It disappointed him a little, but he has to study anyway.

As he just opened the book, a pop-up came in, which made him smile broadly and motivated him to study once again.

[Ding!! Mission: Study for one hour. Minimum Reward: $1000]

[Mission Completed!! Grade: SS, 6 hours and 18 minutes studied. Reward: $12000]

So, SS grade doubles the reward.

Lukas last time got $6000 with an S grade mission completion, but he now got $12000 for SS grade.

Lukas, although he missed the dinner time, was satisfied with his earnings and wanted to continue like this from now on, he would just have to order dinner from outside and use some of his money on his meals, but that was good as well.

Lukas then slept, the next day he woke up and went to jog, and after some squats, came back in his room and did some push-ups. He was not demotivated because the system didn't give him any money.

I need a car, if I had one yesterday, I would have eaten from outside.

Lukas then planned on buying a car today, as it was getting very difficult to move around just with his leg, sometimes it was even impossible to go somewhere alone.

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