War Online - Chapter 400: A stroke of luck

But, thinking about how all these rich capitalists are the same, he brushed off Wil’s good intentions with a rude remark. “You don’t need to be concerned about my well-being, Mr. Ravens. I was like this for the past twenty years, and I will be the same even if I receive life threats…”

“Let’s go, Storm.” Wil turned around to walk out of the office. Since there’s no use in dragging the matter for long, he didn’t bother to fill in the application.

While they were getting back to the car, a freelancer who was hovering around the building spotted them and immediately took a couple of pictures, “Scarlet Group’s Chairman at the City Council. There must be some news.”

Soon, the vehicle started to move.

Wil was silent as he glanced at the City Council through the window glass and shook his head with a sigh.

Upon seeing it, Storm, who didn’t like the Mayor’s attitude, thought Wil was upset by the earlier events.

He apologized for causing trouble and further stated that he await the orders to make the Mayor submit to Wil’s demands.

Storm who served as the Left hand of Mafia Lord never felt so humiliating in his life. In his eyes, the Mayor was just an ordinary man without any backing or so whatever. He even has a family and two kids. There are a number of ways Storm knows to force the Mayor.

However, Wil’s reaction was nothing like Storm imagined it to be.

“Just leave him alone. His profile is good. It’s very rare for such a person to hold the position of Mayor. Arrange a video conference with the Minister, instead. It doesn’t matter if he’s on the other side of my future mother-in-law as long as he can be bought with money.”

In fact, if the Mayor was a bad guy with several dealings, Wil wouldn’t have hesitated to meet him at some secluded restaurant and threaten him with something.

However, Kim Minjae, the new Mayor was an honest man who even received the best teacher award four times from the Education ministry before he started voluntary service for the homeless within the city.

Eventually, the Federation took notice and offered him a position in the City council as a member. Eventually, he became a county commissioner and was serving in his post until three weeks ago, the old Mayor and a couple of other members were acquitted with bribe charges. He was appointed as the interim Mayor until the elections.

In a way, it was Scarlet Group that made him the Mayor. With the employees working closely with the police department in secret, the investigation was completed quicker.

This is why Storm was even angrier on Mayor Kim. But, what can he do when Wil ordered him to leave the matter. He did as he was told.

Little they did expect that they are going to hear a piece of good news very soon.

As if the whole universe is helping out Wil, it turned out that this Minister of Lands, Housing, and Urban Development jumped into Republican Party just an hour ago and is currently on a meeting with the Finance minister.

As soon as Wil made a request, Minister Song quickly accepted it.

And once Wil ended his video call, Minister Song didn’t hold any back on making a call to the Mayor to give him a piece of his mind for trying to get him into trouble.

After all, it is no longer a secret that Wil is the future-son-in-law of Miyazaki Reisa who is the head of the party. Making things difficult for Wil is just the same as going against Reisa.

And this wasn’t some illegal thing to do. All Wil asked the Mayor is to skip the procedure and get him the permit. So, the minister was angry with Kim Minjae, who is only a Mayor of a small city.

“He’s indeed what I thought.” The Mayor’s impression of Wil only became negative and etched this humiliation in his mind.

Unknown to this drama, Wil, who was happy that his land issues were solved, was now leisurely taking a nap until the car stopped at the temporary SGC headquarters, a seven-story building the company first leased and then, bought it from the previous owners.

Long Jing along with the other two directors and CEO Zhu Cheng personally welcomed the two of them and escorted them to the office, not disturbing the others who were sleeping in the Capsule.

Taking a seat in the board room, Wil informed everyone, “From now onwards, Storm will work from here and will join B-division. In addition, he will not only be one of the board members but also represent me in the future. But, this identity of his will be kept secret from the public including our employees.”

His announcement came as a surprise to both Storm and the other two. While Zhu Cheng didn’t understand why he needs to hide from the public, Long Jing, on the other hand, thought it might be because of the recent incident of Scarlet Group where Storm was being fired and got replaced by a new CEO.

She also realized that this new handsome hunk was probably an important pawn in Wil’s strategy. On one hand, he will have a grip on the company, and on other hand, he can have a grip on the Vulture guild.

It led to her wonder whether the rumors of Time Traveler getting in a feud against Scarlet Group are actually true.

Meanwhile, Storm was a bit grateful that this young master of his appointed him as a director and also his representative. Wil earned his respect even more.

And now that his objective is finished, it was time to get home but Wil doesn’t want to go. With the Divine Dragon still asleep, he could only pass the time while spending time on television or chatting with his mother. The latter is something he was not willing to do.

So, Wil thought of staying at the office until evening. But, what should he do until then?

He asked for the financial records of all the branches along with the game data of the employees to study them.

While Storm entered the Capsule to start his gaming career, Wil was watching the videos of training that the employees went through at the Headquarters back then.

“Oh, this girl is a very good archer, although not as good as Hyori,” Wil mumbled to himself watching Xia Fu’s Archery training. He felt like he had seen her somewhere but he neither could remember her face nor her ign. So, he didn’t think much of it and went to the next video.

“She has very good reflexes.” Wil’s eyes fell on a blonde-haired girl who was dodging a dozen softballs that were launched from all the sides.

He searched for her file and found the details, “The name’s Elyssa Strike, 18-year-old, high school graduate from Ares City. Wait a second.” Suddenly something clicked on his mind, “Her surname is Strike? Same as Bran’s?”

When he remembered that she was from Ares city, he quickly threw away his thoughts. After all, Ares is very far away from Ecrin and it is also not uncommon for two people to have the same surname. Adding on top of that, Bran is a 25-year-old guy. There was quite a gap.

He continued watching the rest of the videos.

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