"And that would make it..."
[twenty-seven million, four hundred and twenty-two thousand Gold.]
It was around 19:30 when Dante was done sorting through the stuff he looted, and after counting everything, he ended up with that number.
"Man, you’re telling all of this is just..."
Among the one hundred and twenty shards they got from the equity firm’s safe, only thirty were made from Neorosteel. The rest were fifty Feradyne and forty Voltane, both rare alloys, but not even half as valuable. Selling all of them would only bring about 13650000G, even less than their first haul from a while back.
As for the thirty luxury cars they got from Kortic’s garage, those were worth only fourteen million. As he redid the calculations himself, Dante couldn’t help but wonder.
"Am I... am I being ripped off?"
He rembered seeing the prices of Titan Forge implants, and so went for up to fifty million Gold, even if they were second-hand. Still, ninety-two million for a pair of MBIs was far too crazy a price, and now that he was reminded of how difficult it was going to be to gather those funds, he was realizing the insanity of it all for a second ti.
"Twenty-seven million..."
As he muttered the number, another realization hit him. The shards were one thing, but when it ca to the cars, he was going to struggle a lot to sell them. At the very least, it was going to be really difficult to find buyers when the Daggers were still around. That ant he only gained another thirteen million, barely bringing him to the halfway point.
"... Guess we have to go another round, huh?"
Dante was prepared to call it a day just earlier, but his earnings falling short caused him to reconsider. The church he checked that morning was going to be his last target, but before he headed there, he decided to stop by the Bowl of Fortune and get so dinner.
After transporting the stolen cars to Hollowstreet, the only places he could portal to were the areas bordering it in the original dinsion, or other pocket dinsions, which were in the sa area.
At first, he considered going back to his apartnt, but since he left that morning and had yet to return, it would look strange if he suddenly ca out. He didn’t think anyone would notice, but it was for the best if he avoided it altogether.
In the end, he went with the borders around Hollowstreet, opening a portal to one of the abandoned apartnts there. He got his dinner, gossiped with Glenn and Jonah about Ross’s date, then took a train back to New City.
~[ ]~
For the church, Dante decided to go with the sa strategy he used when infiltrating the office building from before. First, he used 8-3 to portal into one of the empty rooms on the first basent floor.
With it being night, there weren’t a lot of people in the church to begin with, and that went twice for the lower floors. Once he was inside, Dante switched to 8-1 for comfort, though that can be debated, considering he upped the difficulty for himself significantly.
Volcan handled the Diving, disabling security systems along the way. The first basent floor seed like a standard storage area, so Dante didn’t pay it much attention. On the far end, near a set of stairs that lead to the second basent floor, several rooms seem to have been made into bedrooms for the staff. The sa went for the other end of the stairs.
The 3D model showed that a group of three was gathered in one of those rooms. They seed to be drinking and laughing about sothing. Just in case, Dante decided to fix their door in place using Spatial lock. He didn’t want them to suddenly co out while he took the stairs down.
Just like with the first, Dante decided to ignore the second basent floor. Things got a lot more difficult right after.
"I already told you, we can’t go through it like that."
"And I’m telling you-"
Just as he was about to descend to the third basent floor, two n ca up the stairs, forcing Dante to retreat. With nowhere to hide, he was forced to enter one of the rooms and lie low, but the hiss the door made as it closed seed awfully loud.
The two n, likely priests working for the church, seed to notice the sound, which prompted them to go check. The room Dante entered was another bedroom, and with how minimalist its owner was, there weren’t many places where soone could hide. If anyone were to enter, they were bound to notice the armored stranger right away.
’Vocan.’
Just as the two priests were about to reach it, Dante instructed Volcan to trigger the sensors on another door, causing it to open, but only halfway through. Another door opened right after, then another.
Dante asked Volcan to open the door to the room he was in as well and closed right after, and right after, he heard the priest’s confused voices.
"Are the doors... malfunctioning?"
"Maybe there is a bug in the system or sothing..."
There were only three companies that handled the production and installation of automatic doors in the entirety of the Radmir union. For such businesses, having a product malfunction was a big deal, so people rembered it even if it rarely happened. That made tricking the priests much easier, so after instructing Volcan to lock the doors and keep them that way, they beca convinced that it was a system bug.
The two priests made so calls to confirm if anyone was stuck in the locked rooms then left for the upper floors, eting the three from before. Thankfully, Dante rembered to remove the Spatial Lock on their door.
The little distraction Volcan caused scared the priests into leaving for the ground floor, not wanting to be stuck until whoever handled the maintenance showed up. Once they were gone, Dante was free to advance once more.
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