Understanding

East Blue, Loguetown.

Inside a luxurious villa, Ryan rose from his chair after ending the call and adjusted his collar.

Sebas took the communicator from Ryan's hand and stood respectfully one step behind him, awaiting orders.

"Let's stop today's training here."

Ryan spoke blandly. After that interruption, he had lost interest in continuing his cultivation.

"Your subordinate obeys."

Sebas's body, straight as a pine tree, bent slightly as he answered in a steady, powerful voice.

Ryan nodded and strode toward the training room exit.

His footsteps clicked against the flooring made of the highest-grade magic crystals. Fine magic array patterns covered the entire training hall, consuming endless magical power to improve the training effect by even the tiniest fraction.

Every decoration and every furnishing in the room had been crafted from the most luxurious and valuable items.

In the game, the resources before him alone would have been enough to equip a top-ranked super guild. Now, though, they were merely decorations and consumables.

At first, he had felt a faint pang of heartache, but as time passed, he grew used to it. There was even an indescribable thrill to it.

He reached out, gripped the Adamantite door handle, and opened the training room door.

After he decided this villa would become his long-term residence in this world, Albedo, who oversaw his daily needs, had put even more thought into renovating it.

The villa's exterior footprint did not exceed three thousand square meters, yet under the effects of spatial expansion magic, its usable area had reached over a million square meters. Moreover, the resources spent on decoration and ornamentation would have been enough to forge tens of thousands of divine artifacts, with plenty left over.

To serve him better, they had even specially created a miniature World Portal and placed it