After returning to his own shrine, Aoki Wataru did not immediately open his shrine for money. It was almost five o'clock in the afternoon, and opening it at this time would not make much money, so he might as well close it for a day and open it again tomorrow.
However, because of this matter, Aoki Shinkou began to consider whether he should recruit a few people to help him manage the shrine. Otherwise, they would lose a lot of money if they locked him up for an entire afternoon…
After Aoki Shura took this matter to heart, he did not consider it for the time being.
What he needed to do now was something else…
"Terracotta soldiers, mountain boys! Show yourself!"
Aoki Wataru stood in the courtyard of his shrine. He waved his hand, and the mighty terracotta soldier and the wretched mountain boy appeared in front of him.
He looked at the only two combat forces in his hands. The terracotta soldiers were still alright. At least their appearance was passable. As for the mountain boy…sigh, it was a headache.
However, seeing that he was still useful, she would forgive him.
He released them for no other reason than to use the N card he had just drawn to level them up.
"Let me see…"
Aoki Shigeru opened the system and opened the upgrade page.
In the game, a Spirit-branded Retainer could level up by devouring other Spirit-branded Retainers, but they could only devour six at a time.
Aoki Wataru first placed Yamato into the card slot in the middle, then placed six N-rank shikigami around him.
Then, an experience bar appeared below the avatar representing the mountain child. It represented how many levels the mountain child would reach after devouring the six Spirit-branded Retainers.
Aoki Wataru took a closer look and found that after devouring six N-rank shikigami, Yamako would rise to level 7.
" That's not bad, but if there are six Red Dharma, that would be awesome…"
Aoki Wataru mumbled as he chose to devour the Spirit-branded Retainer. He did not know where to get the Red Dharma. There were three special Spirit-branded Retainers in the game, and their nicknames were Red Dharma, White Dharma, and Black Dharma.
Their effects were also simple. Red Dharma was super dog food and could provide more experience for the Spirit-branded Retainer. White Dharma leveled up very quickly and was the best material for leveling up. Black Dharma could randomly increase the level of a Spirit-branded Retainer's skill. Of course, this also depended on the face...
It was said that many people fed seven Black Dharma, but in the end, they only increased their level 7 normal attack skills.
After upgrading the mountain child to level 7, the various stats of the mountain child had increased by a little. Aoki Shou had a total of 31 N-rank shikigami. Other than the three that had already been upgraded to level 5, there were only 28 shikigami that could be used for the upgrade service. He had just used six of them, and there were still 22 left.
Aoki Wataru thought that since there were still so many of them, he might as well distribute 12 of them equally between the terracotta soldier and the mountain boy, allowing the terracotta soldier to level up to level 9. After the mountain boy reached level 10, Aoki Wataru only had 16 N-rank shikigami left.
There was a reason why Aoki Wataru did not use them all at once. After all, this was the real world, and many functions that could not be achieved in the game could be of great help in the real world...
Moreover, some of the skills of the N-rank shikigami were practical. After all, the game limited the number of shikigami to five, but there was no such restriction in the real world.
Therefore, although Aoki Shinkou only had 16 N-rank Spirit-branded Retainers left, he kept at least one of each type to ensure the variety of Spirit-branded Retainers.
After finishing all these things, Aoki Shou ordered the terracotta soldiers and the mountain boy to patrol the vicinity of the shrine.
Then, he began to write the recruitment letter in his room. He calculated that the shrine needed someone to manage it. At the very least, he needed a receptionist, a fortune-teller, and a cleaner. It would be best if he could also have a witch.
However, these days, witches were even rarer than Onmyoji. It was impossible to find a decent witch. As for those indecent witches, you could easily find them in the red light district.
After writing the recruitment notice, Aoki Wataru also wrote an advertisement. He planned to make a few copies outside later and then let his Spirit-branded Retainer post them everywhere.
Although there were many shrines these days, there were very few capable people in the same industry, so Aoki Shinkou did not think about whether he would offend anyone by doing so.
Anyway, even if someone came up to cause trouble, the terracotta soldier and mountain boy would teach them how to be a qualified Onmyoji.
After Aoki went out to make many copies of the recruitment notice and advertisement, he handed the matter over to his Spirit-branded Retainer. Naturally, he became his own hands-off shopkeeper.
At the same time, his life had returned to normal. The shrine opened as usual, and the shikigami went out to cause trouble at night. Strictly speaking, Aoki Wataru's shrine was considered to be open 24 hours a day, right?
However, not long after Aoki She lived a peaceful life, trouble came to his door.
That night, it had been a while since Aoki Wataru had sent out his shikigami. Seeing that it was almost time, he prepared to wash up and rest.
All of a sudden, he felt a sharp pain in his heart. He could not help but hold his heart and fall to the ground.
"What happened? Why did his heart suddenly hurt? Am I having a heart attack?"
Aoki Wataru sat on the ground and muttered in panic. He did not want to have these problems.
After a while, before Aoki She could recover, another wave of pain came.
"Ah!"
This time, Aoki She couldn't help but shout. At the same time, he realized that things might not be as simple as he thought.
At the same time, Aoki Sei seemed to have thought of something. He quickly opened his Onmyoji System and checked it carefully. He realized that he had lost two Spirit-branded Retainers unknowingly. They were a Parasitic Soul and a Lantern Ghost.
"Damn it! Who killed my Spirit-branded Retainer?"
Aoki Wataru suddenly felt a sense of danger. He had never thought that there would be anyone in this world who could kill his shikigami other than monsters. After all, although they were N-rank shikigami, they still had some means of self-defense.
After such a thing happened, Aoki Sei did not dare to leave the remaining Spirit-branded Retainers outside. He quickly switched all the Spirit-branded Retainers into ghost form in the Onmyoji System. This way, ordinary attacks would not be able to hurt them.
After daybreak, these Spirit-branded Retainers would automatically return.
"Motherf * cker, don't let me find out who you are, or I'll definitely kill you!!”
Seeing that he had lost two Spirit-branded Retainers that he had drawn with great difficulty for no reason, Aoki Shinkou was in a very bad mood, especially after he learned that he would suffer so much pain after the death of the Spirit-branded Retainer. He was extremely unhappy.
Aoki Shura thought that this matter would end here, but he did not expect trouble to approach him step by step.
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