Strongest Superhuman System - Chapter 558

Chapter 558: Planning For The Future
“Well, I hope sister-in-law knows what she’s doing. Or wait… do I have a second sister-in-law now? Hah, this is fucking crazy no matter how I look at it.”

Mark just scoffed at Pat’s words before they moved on to talking about more serious things, like the Vanguard guild, the Mana Detection System, and Fiona.

“Will you come for the burial?”

Mark asked calmly, and Pat just nodded while turning to glance at the Mana Detection System open on the screen. Pat had created this to try and find Fiona, so now that he was hearing she was dead, it was a little disappointing. Pat could feel a deep pain somewhere in his chest. It hurt.

“Of course, I’ll come. I was the one that got her killed. I don’t have the right to miss it.”

“She said you would say something like that. She doesn’t blame you, Pat. Everyone makes mistakes in the heat of battle. She knew what she was getting into.”

Pat shook his head.

“I was the leader of the mission, and I failed to keep her safe. Would you be able to just forget someone under your command if they died because of a mistake you made?”

That made Mark sigh as he didn’t have a response for it. Pat was right. Mark wouldn’t be able to ignore it if his mistake led to someone’s death. But that didn’t mean Mark would allow it to stop him from moving forward either. He would accept that he made a stupid mistake and try his best to make sure it never happened again.

From what Mark could see, Pat was already trying to fix that mistake by creating the MDS, so Mark decided he would allow Pat to move on from this at his own pace. Pat was a smart kid, so he would bounce back, Mark was sure of it.

But still, Mark was shocked that Pat was able to create something like that – a Mana Detection System.

Something like that could revolutionize the fucking world.

‘I don’t even know if I should be surprised or not. If anyone could do something so crazy, it’s Pat. At least now I know where that five hundred million dollars went. This bastard doesn’t have any respect for other people’s money, but this was as good a reason as any to spend that much.’

Mark knew that Pat was working on something big when he was holed up in his hideout before, but Mark didn’t think it would be something like this! Mark knows what the government would do for something this impressive. No, that doesn’t properly describe the intensity of the situation.

Mark knows what anyone would do for something like this.

Countries, guilds, individuals, military organizations, criminal organizations, terrorists. They would all want a piece of this technology. Being capable of detecting the presence of a superhuman over the radius of an entire country from satellites hovering over the Earth was like something fictional!

Just thinking of all the ways this could go wrong left a bad taste in Mark’s mouth. Terrorist organizations could use it to plan their activities. Criminals could use it to plan heists. Assassins could even use it to take out specific superhumans without ever needing to get close. There were too many possibilities to count.

Mark told Pat to make sure that no one knew about this other than them, for now at least. Mark wanted to first build up his guild and create more of a presence before they thought about making this public. That way, they would be able to properly regulate who could use it and who couldn’t.

“Maybe in a few months, we can release a lite version to a branch of the military and see how it goes. It’ll be good for making money for the guild, so we can’t just hoard it for ourselves.”

Pat nodded at Mark’s assessment. Pat knew that Mark was a businessman at heart, so Mark would understand just how much money they could make from this. It was better to regulate who could use it than to just hoard it for themselves.

“So, I guess you’re no longer mad at me for using your five hundred million dollars?”

Mark scowled in irritation once Pat said this, and for a while, he said nothing in response to Pat’s question. Mark was obviously not happy that he lost five hundred million, but Mark was a businessman before anything else, and he could see the potential in what Pat had just created. If they played their cards right, they could get billions from this system!

But not yet. For now, they had to lay low about it.

“You’re buying me a new house for that shit. Somewhere in the upperside of City A that’s close to school.”

Mark only said this in response to Pat’s question, and Pat just laughed at the strange request and nodded. Pat knew that Mark was only saying that for the sake of it. Mark wasn’t even angry about the five hundred million anymore since Mark could also see the potential it had. Mark just needed a new place since both his former house and the hotel he was staying in were destroyed, so it would be a form of paying Mark back if Pat bought the house.

With all the money he still had, getting a house for Mark wasn’t an issue, so Pat just agreed.

On getting back home, everyone was tired from working. Mark wasn’t physically tired since the only serious activity he did all day was escaping the reporters and helicopters that were chasing him down for an interview like he was some sort of criminal, but the girls were exhausted, so Mark put Talia to bed first before he had a shower with both Arit and Luna.

Mark spoke to them about his guild and how he would need to start building a headquarters for it, and Luna offered to help him out in the recruitment of superhumans. If news that GHOST’s guild was recruiting got out, then every single superhuman in the country would want to join it, so Mark would need help in the interviews as well as in weeding out who was useful for his guild’s mission and who wasn’t. Mark gratefully accepted the offer.

Mark asked Arit if she was still interested in going to school after everything that had happened, and Arit blushed and said that she was. Even though Arit knew that there would be a lot of backlash from both the school administration as well as the parents of students when they find out that Arit is in the school, she still wanted to learn so that she could become a doctor. It was something she wanted since she and her parents were attacked by anima years ago and her mother was killed. Arit didn’t want to give up on that dream.

Thinking of the dream reminded Arit of her father, and Arit suddenly became downcast as she remembered what her father had done. Selling her out like that was something that Arit never expected from him, and Arit knew that there was a likelihood that they would never be able to fix the relationship they once had.

It wasn’t just because her father knew that she was a murderer now. Arit also didn’t know if she could forgive her father for what he did.