In the underground castle’s hidden chamber, more than a month had passed since the Moonlight Bank had started its operation.
Maximus looked at the total amount of money deposited in the bank: 152,368,343 gold credits.
With over 7 million people taking loans of at least 10 GC each, along with substantial bank deposits from the wealthy former nobles, the gold credits had exceeded 150 million GC.
However, most of this money belonged to Maximus.
After people took out loans, they used the funds to purchase cultivation manuals and spells from the Moonlight Library, resulting in a shortage of circulating money.
Fortunately, there wasn’t much available to buy at the moment, as Maximus had yet to release the resources needed for training.
Once the tier 1 seeds were harvested, it would be time for the people to prosper.
Maximus took a deep breath, called up his system, and clicked to convert the more than 150 million GC of digital currency in the Athercore Nexus into system Gold Points.
His system panel: [+152,368,343 GP]
The digital money in the Athercore Nexus became 0, only to quickly return to the amount previously in a matter of milliseconds.
“Yes!” Maximus clenched his fist in excitement.
His first experiment was a success—converting digital money into system points by cultivating the sentiments of the people.
While it may seem like it’s only a hundred million GP compared to the hundred of billion GP he earned in the Arcane Continent by reselling things.
But this is only the start, it only represented less than 2 percent of the population with at least 10 GC of digital money.𝑶𝐯xt.𝓒𝑂𝑚
If the entire population of Sunburnt Plateau combined to have at least 10 GC of digital money, it would amount to at least 3 billion Gold Points.
And cultivating the sentiment to convert this digital currency into system points would only take a month.
So in a year, he can convert 36 billion GP.
Moreover, this is just with the current strength and number of the population.
In the future, as the population and their strength grew, he could harvest trillions upon trillions of GP every month. The mere thought of it made him dream.
As for the digital currency, he converted? there was no loss whatsoever.
It was merely a collection of digital numbers that he could quickly restore to its original value in just a few milliseconds.
If it’s not for the restriction of cultivating sentiments on money, due to problems like supply and demand, physiology of people, and such, he can ramp up this digital money as he likes and never worry about anything in his life.
More importantly, what he likes about this plan of cultivating sentiments and converting them to system points, is that it’s safe.
Although he could resell system products in the Arcane Continent, it was risky.
Maximus didn’t know when the powerhouses in that place would catch wind of his reselling activities.
For now, it remained secure since he only sold common products. However, if he continued such reckless actions, he would undoubtedly be discovered one day.
On the other hand, cultivating sentiments into currency within his territory was safe and undetectable.
In a joyous mood, he patted his clothes and planned to celebrate this achievement with his wives and children.
As for inscribing the runic program for the Moonlight Mall for the follow-up update, he decided to put it on hold for now.
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A few days had passed, and Maximus paced back and forth at the door as his wife, Angeline, was in labor.
Although he knew that she would be safe, having prepared potions and magic items for the birthing process, as a husband and father, he couldn’t help but worry.
“Don’t walk back and forth, father, you’re making me dizzy,” Liam impatiently exclaimed.
When Liam was a little kid, he called him “daddy,” and then he referred to him as “dad.”
But now it became more old-fashioned and formal, addressing him as father.
Maximus wondered what had caused the change in his son’s address.
“It must be the Moonlight Forum teaching children poorly,” Maximus thought to himself, planning to implement age restrictions on the forum when he had the time.
“Why are you even here, little brat?” Maximus asked impatiently.
Liam’s other brothers and sister were waiting outside, not wanting to disturb Angeline during her labor.
“First Mother asked me to come here and provide you with emotional support,” Liam said in a serious tone.
“Hmph, what could a five-year-old brat know?” Maximus snorted.
“I’m already an adult, and furthermore, I’m already an official knight,” Liam proudly declared.
“Hmph, it’s all thanks to this old father. Otherwise, with your lackluster talent, you can only dream of becoming an official knight,” Maximus said without mercy, not wanting his children to grow arrogant due to their strength.
All of his family members had upgraded their Potential to Rank 3 Rare, using hundreds of millions of GP to purchase Tier 3 Drops of Origin Mana.
With sufficient resources, it was relatively easy for Liam to advance to a Tier 1 official knight.
His wives were also advancing to tier 2 Great Mage, with the twin Luna and Livia already tier 3 Earth Knight despite only being an official mage.
The other children however were only apprentice knights.
As for the children’s mage cultivation, they had yet to start training.
Their souls were quite fragile, and absorbing mana to temper their delicate souls would endanger them.
However, tempering their physical bodies was safe, as there were ample resources available.
Physical bodies were malleable and easy to repair, unlike souls.
As for how Amara, Alistair’s five-year-old sister, was able to temper her soul without harm, Maximus simply attributed it to plot armor.
When it came to the common civilians, Maximus didn’t worry much.
They couldn’t even read, so how could their mischievous children be expected to listen to boring scriptures and meditate peacefully?
They would rather focus on training their bodies, which was relatively simple and somewhat enjoyable.
Furthermore, he was already preparing to build an academy, so it should not affect them.
For the nobles, it was common knowledge not to temper their souls too early, so it wasn’t a concern.
Maximus looked at his deflated son after pointing out that Liam only advanced to an official knight thanks to him.
“It’s alright, at least you still advanced, unlike others who didn’t achieve anything despite having the resources to do so,” Maximus comforted.
“I know,” Liam replied, listening to his father’s advice.
“Besides, you don’t know anything about love between partners, so you should just shut up as I worry about your fifth mother,” Maximus retorted, his worry for his wife Angeline resurfacing.
“Who said I don’t know anything? I have…” Liam began to refute him but quickly covered his mouth to prevent exposing anything due to his outburst.
“Know what? Do you have a crush?” Maximus halted his walk, staring at his son.
“No!” Liam quickly denied it and ran back outside.
“What do kids these days learn?” Maximus murmured as he watched Liam run away in embarrassment.
Liam was only five years old, and yet he already had a crush?
How could Liam have met someone in their castle without him knowing?
The only possibility was that he met someone online in the Moonlight Forum. This was another reason to add age restrictions, he thought.
Maximus remotely accessed the Aethercore Nexus through his token and tapped into the Moonlight Forum, and search Liam Shadowcrest’s history.
He searched to see who Liam had been talking to recently, as he didn’t want his son to be fooled.
The search results quickly appeared.
“Amara?” he murmured.
Since there were many people with the name Amara, he accessed the Aethercore Nexus database for more information.
Looking at the results, Maximus was taken aback.
He didn’t know if he should be happy or concerned, as the Amara that Liam was chatting with turned out to be Alistair’s sister—the one he thought had the protagonist template.
Maximus knows that Amara is destined to be one of Alistair’s harem if he truly is a protagonist, Liam is up for one hell of a fight if he truly has feelings for Amara.
However, Maximus is not too worried. Even if Alistair has the protagonist template, Maximus believes he who had a cheat can surpass any protagonist in this plane given enough time.
His main concern is that his son Liam may suffer a blow after competing with Alistair in the future.
Liam and Amara happened to know each other, as Amara has been giving suggestions on spiritual farming in return for common knowledge about this world.
Without resources, Amara, despite being smart, lacks this extensive knowledge.
Liam, on the other hand, has been trained from a young age and possesses a wide array of common knowledge, which has caught Amara’s attention.
Realizing that there are others her age with a similar level of knowledge has both shocked and relieved Amara.
She now knows that she is not abnormal or possessed by a demon.
Amara was simply born smart, although Liam, being fed resources since a young age, so they cannot be compared.
Recently, Liam even consumed a photographic memory potion that cost Maximus a billion GP.
So if his son can’t even compare with others in terms of intelligence then he would be disappointed.