Chapter 7: Eviction notice
With 3000 credits to his name, Nick felt a little disheartened as it was half what he was expecting to receive for turning in the corpse of the Awakened White Ox, but he could only sigh in resignation for the time being.
’3000 is still better than none.’
While he was given less than expected, what he had received would still be quite helpful to him.
With this money, he could finally pay this month’s rent, which was something that was quite troubling to him over the last few weeks since he had graduated and entered the world of adulthood in the Beast Domain.
Before, even though he didn’t have a job, he was able to support both himself and his sister through the government subsidies that he’d been granted as settlement for his mother and father’s deaths — as they had both died in workplace accidents.
Unfortunately, the government would only send this money in until the eldest child, in this case Nick, turned 16 and became an Altered by entering the Beast Domain.
Naturally, with no job to his name, and hence no other way to earn enough money for him and his sister to survive, he had to resort to putting himself in even more danger by fighting more and more beasts.
His luck of killing the Awakened White Ox had relieved quite some stress off his shoulders, for now.
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As he stepped out of the teleporter, Nick arrived back on the planet he called home, an Earth sized planet with a similar climate, called Terminus.
From what Nick could remember from his history lessons, this place was called as such because it sat at the boundary of the Federation’s territory — outside of this star system was nothing but a boundless void for millions of light years.