NOVEL WEB Chapter 20 - New York Overview
Adam and Sarah got into a taxi with the suit in their bag and returned to their apartment.
Meanwhile, in a high rise penthouse in New York was an old man sat at a desk with the girl that was at the Maxwell Store and a middle-aged man with her.
"Grandpa, I hate it when dad sends me to the area filled with peasants," pouted the girl to the old man.
"It's good for you, my little angel, to experience the world, and you must remember that our family also came from poverty and Brooklyn," replied the old man in a spoiling manner.
"Yes, Angela you have to experience the world, which will help with your cultivation, and that is why I sent you with Damian watching over you," added the middle-aged man sat next to her, who seemed to be her father.
"But I am already a prodigy aren't I," gloatingly refuted Angela.
"Obviously my little angel is a prodigy like her cousins and can rival the rest of the large cultivation families' direct descendants," complimented her grandfather.
"Father don't spoil her too much, she must learn, and there are many others who are as talented as her or maybe even more talented in cultivation in the other families that we don't know of," stated the middle-aged man respectfully.
"Once my great grandfather, and the ancestor of our family, was given a cultivation method by a weird man along with the ancestors of the other large families in New York: The Lin Family, The Ford Family, The Dale Family and The Epstein Family.
The mysterious man disappeared as soon as he left them the methods and said that he had chosen them to rule the area.
All of them were talented, which is why they were chosen by the mysterious man and were all given different cultivation methods with different unique elements and abilities and each had many wives and had dozens of children.
Over almost a thousand years they spread throughout the city and New York was split into the 5 boroughs that it is now.
Over time technology developed more and more and they invested more and more into businesses and wealth and overtime they also got weaker as cultivators had less talent as the bloodline got less and less concentrated over generations.
The richest family that had accumulated the most wealth is the Epstein Family that is the underground controllers of Staten Island, and the strongest family was the Lin Family who had originated from China and had an unknown backing.
The other three are still billionaire families and have strong cultivators within them, but were not as powerful as the top 2.
The Lin Family have Queens as their domain, The Epstein Family have Staten Island as their domain, The Dale Family have The Bronx as their territory and The Ford Family are in control of Manhattan.
Us the Maxwell Family have Brooklyn as our domain, but there is a lot of friction with the Lin Family as they have built an enormous Chinatown where they have spread their territory to and are slowly eating away at our territory.
Most the families are only known as rich families and most do not know their origins and how powerful they really are. All of them had their own underground gangs and groups to keep control of their domain from the shadows and we also have many gangs, but we are still nothing compared to the Lin Family in terms of raw firepower.
I am the fourth ever family head, because as cultivators our lives are much longer, and over the years we have recruited any talents we see to increase the power of our family, but we are still faltering.
The new generation of the Maxwell Family is quite talented, but the youth these days are too complacent and don't work hard or have the experience to be strong cultivators like in the past.
There were always wars between the families, but we have had the last hundred years of peace. However, the peace may be over and there is a lot of friction between the families over wealth and power and they all covet the cultivation methods that the other families have.
Now ..." stated the old man before being interrupted.
"Grandpa, I already know this and you tell us this all the time, so what are we going to do" interrupted the girl.
"Don't be disrespectful, you spoilt brat" shouted her father.
"Son" sternly called the old man glaring at him.
Angela gave her father a spoilt scoff as he gave her an angry stare.
"Son call the rest of your siblings and cousins, the elders, we will have a family meeting and make sure that we aren't looked down upon and we won't be the lowest family out of the cultivator New York holders" he announced.
In a nice modern apartment was Sarah who was sat at the dinner table with lots of paperwork and seemed to be working hard on plans and sorting out and completing the formation of ASDARE, while Adam was in his room researching on his computer.
Making the most of his time and new-found memory, Adam was absorbing as much information about everything useful as he could and after a few hours felt his mind and eyes aching.
"Time to take a break" mumbled Adam as he jumped out of his chair and left his room.
Seeing all the paperwork on the table, Adam was happy that the work was getting done and having put all his hopes on it and the largest shareholder of their soon to be company was looking forward to how successful she could make it.
"What should we have for lunch that isn't too expensive on my almost empty wallet," asked Adam as he pulled out his trouser pockets jokingly.
"Why don't we just have some eggs and toast we have in the fridge, which is filling, has protein and carbs and we already have it from when I went to the grocery store" suggested Sarah putting down what she was doing.
"Yeah that sounds great and those eggs you made for breakfast were so good," said Adam as he stroked his stomach.
After a nice meal and eating his fill, Adam lay on the sofa and had a short relaxing time.
"Sarah once I enter my room, I can't be disturbed until I leave," said Adam seriously, without elaborating on why.
Seeing his expression she was puzzled, but she still nodded in affirmation as Adam got up and went into his room.
Adam sat on his bed and took slow and deep breaths as he entered a calm, meditative and ethereal state.
Similar to the way he was when he sat on the bench, Adam felt very comfortable as time past very quickly.
{Ding, the host will be transported into the dungeon in 30 seconds} the system announced.
Adam got under the covers and felt very calm and comfortable after the meditation he just did and got into a position that he knew he was fine staying in for 12 hours.
"Time to finally explore Floor 1"