Slav glanced at him, but Loki smiled harmlessly in greeting. His weird behavior startled Slav for a short while. But then the boy snorted and turned away with his chin held high like a peacock.
Loki saw this prideful behavior, so he chuckled to himself as he thought, "Oh, to behold the joys I have in store for you."
Then he used the Power Identification Ability to check his situation and make sure he didn't miss anything.
Age: 19/77
Race: Human
Energy Quantity: 77 + 77 + 77 >> 77 + 616 + 616 = 1,309
Energy Density: 1 >> 1(4)(4)
Energy Rank: 1
Body: 0.6.
Soul: 1.5
Will: 4.
Skill: 10% >> 35%.
Fenrir (Divine): Power Identification. Tracking. Seal. Devouring. Rewind. Sword Heart.
According to his observation, his skill has improved again by 5%. It went from 30% since to 35%.
There is also the improvement of the energy density of the life energy within the two energy chambers within Fenrir from 1 to 4. The energy density of these two energy chambers went from early to middle, middle to late, and late to peak.
The increase in density doubled the amount of energy that each strand of life energy contains. So the life energy at the peak of rank 1 possesses 8 times as much energy as the life energy at the early state of rank 1. This is why the quantity of energy he possesses has increased from 77 × 3, which was 231, to 77 + 616 + 616, which is 1,309
Aside from these two things, there is nothing else that he missed. Just as he had guessed, the energy density within his energy well remained at level 1.
So outwardly, he appeared as someone who had never cultivated. At least, Muni didn't notice anything odd about him. The subsequent events happened without any changes or unexpected developments.
As usual, on the first day of the initiation program, Muni explained cultivation to them. This time, Muni wasn't much interested in listening. After all, this will be the third time he has heard it.
He did try to pay attention, but he let himself sleep longer and tried even less during the cultivation session. Since he already had a way to increase his cultivation rapidly, he had two reasons not to take this lecture seriously.
Muni didn't bother despite his laziness. After class, Muni still opened the gate to the market for them and allowed them to spend the rest of the day there.
Loki proceeded to borrow 100 energy stones. But this time, he wasn't enthusiastic about it.
He wasn't as excited as he was in the last timeline, so he didn't rush to sign the contracts. His behavior was as if he were bored and was just going through the motions.
From there, he went to gamble. He took the 100 energy stones with him, with the plan to increase them. But this time, he didn't become greedy and reach the limit of the tolerance of the gambling house.
He only gambled three times on games with odds of 5, 8, and 10. This increased the 100 energy stones to 40,000 energy stones. So he won just half of what he won in the last timeline.
He doesn't really need this money and won't need it until he opens up more energy chambers within Fenrir. The main reason he got this amount is to test the bottom line of the Rein Family and see what they will do next.
He still bought Cloudy Date Metacs, though. But he only bought enough to make one energy well reach the peak of rank 1. So he bought just 3, which didn't make him eligible for a discount. So he had to pay the full price of 6,000 energy stones for them.
He doesn't know exactly why the Rein Family came after him that night, but he is sure that it must have something to do with the massive amount of money that suddenly came into his possession. After all, the Rein Family hadn't come to visit him the night of the first day of initiation in other timelines.
He took this test seriously, so when night came, he didn't sleep at all. He tried to stay awake as much as possible, so he was able to notice when Slav's elder brother, Simon, broke into his house.
He decided to pretend to sleep so that he could ambush Simon once he came closer to wake him up. Unfortunately, Simon wasn't fooled.
Simon folded his arms across his chest some distance from the bed and asked with an amused expression on his face, "What are you doing?"
Loki didn't answer the question. Since he had been exposed, he activated the Rewind Metac and restarted the timeline.
This time, he reduced his greed even further. He only gambled on two games with odds of 8 and 10, so he won 8,000 energy stones in total.
By the time he bought the three Cloudy Dates that he needed to advance his energy to the peak of rank 1, he only had 2,000 energy stones left.
As he left the market, he said to himself, "This is one-tenth of my previous maximum earnings. They have to be okay with this, or they will be going too far."
Then he chuckled deprecatingly and said, "I should not be surprised if they act unreasonably. To be surprised is to underestimate their shamelessness."
After chuckling to himself, he left the market and returned to his accommodation. He still didn't sleep that night. Unfortunately, his alertness and preparedness were a big waste because no one came to enslave him that night.
His lack of sleep meant that he was sleepy during the following day's class. To this, Muni said, "It seems some of us have become pompous enough to disregard my class now that they have become lucky enough to win some money."
Muni was glaring at him when he said this, so everyone in class knew that he was talking about Loki. But Loki himself didn't know this because he was sleeping with his head on the desk.