Crossover: In Little Garden, Becoming a God by Proving Eternity Through One

"I settled things with Perseus. In the end, we only had to pay five percent more. I carry a lot of weight, don't I?"

White Night Yaksha returned the remaining money to Qin Qi, then wore a smug little expression as she remembered something.

"Oh, right. I heard you defeated Galdo and absorbed Force Garo. Do you want to become a Floor Master?"

"If you do, I'll set you a trial right now. As long as you pass, I'll give you the outer gate authority certificate."

"No need. I've been working hard for so long, so I'll take a little break. Let's put the Floor Master matter aside for now."

Qin Qi sat down and took a small bite of Leticia's cooking. Huh, the taste was actually pretty normal.

"That's the position of Floor Master! With it, you can not only use the Boundary Gates for free, but also collect their usage fees."

"You also get the right to decorate the outer gate and plenty of other rights!"

Leticia looked at Qin Qi's indifferent expression. Thinking he didn't know what a Floor Master was, she couldn't help explaining.

"I know. There's no rush. Let me eat first, then rest for a while. I stayed up all night again yesterday, so I need to catch up on sleep."

Qin Qi spoke as he ate at his own leisurely pace.

"What outer gate? Did something happen?"

Black Rabbit had also come to work after taking care of her community's affairs. As soon as she entered, she heard them talking about an outer gate.

She asked curiously.

"Master's community is qualified to become a Floor Master, but he's acting as though it's nothing."

Leticia spoke.

"Ehhh?! The position of Floor Master? Isn't that a super, super amazing thing?!"

"Manager, you should accept it right away! This is an extremely rare opportunity!"

"In an outer gate, only the most influential and powerful community can become the Floor Master!"

"It doesn't just symbolize all sorts of rights. It also represents honor and fame!"

Black Rabbit immediately bounded over and grabbed Qin Qi's arm, her face full of excitement as she shook it back and forth.

"I know, but I'm really tired."

Qin Qi spoke.

"You two don't need to be so surprised. This guy's community has long since become the Floor Master of many outer gates."

"That's why this kid doesn't really care about it."

White Night Yaksha took out her smoking pipe again. After taking a couple of puffs, she exhaled a cloud of pale purple smoke and spoke.

"Ehhh?!"

Leticia and Black Rabbit both widened their eyes. So the manager was that amazing? Wasn't he a merchant?!

A note here: a Floor Master does not rule the entire seven-digit level, only the outer gate where they are based.

For example, at outer gate 2105380, where the No Name community is located, the Floor Master can only govern the territory within that outer gate.

Other outer gates also have their own Floor Masters. Simply put, the strongest community in an area is its Floor Master.

Chapter 32: Vampire Legion, Leticia: Master, Do You Need Someone to Warm Your Bed?

"If you three want to talk, go outside. I need to catch up on sleep. I still have things to do afterward."

Qin Qi chased Black Rabbit, White Night Yaksha, and Leticia out, then went to sleep to restore his energy.

"Come on, Black Rabbit, let's go to my shop. I'll tell you all about when Qin Qi first came to Little Garden."

"Oh, right, I also have a few outfits I want you to try on. They're very pretty."

White Night Yaksha gave a gentlemanly smile, then let out a "Kekeke."

"How scary!"

Black Rabbit looked at White Night Yaksha's wicked grin and began to tremble. She felt that if she went inside, she'd be stripped bare!

Bunny was very scared, but bunny didn't say so.

In the blink of an eye, several more hours passed. By the time Qin Qi woke up, the sun was almost setting.

"Hmm... rest? Forget it, I can't sit still. I'd better go take care of business."

Qin Qi sat in his room. He had originally intended to keep resting, but after lying down for a while, he sat back up. He just couldn't sit still.

When he went outside, the first thing he saw was Leticia, dressed in a maid outfit and cleaning the shop.

"Leticia, come on, it's time to work."

Qin Qi was ready to assign Leticia a job.

"Hm? Do you need someone to warm your bed?"

Leticia looked at Qin Qi, tilted her head, and spoke without expression.

"Dream on. With that much money, you couldn't pay me back even if you warmed my bed for a hundred years."

Qin Qi made the remark, then contacted his subordinates and found a stage area under his community's control.

This time, he summoned more than just those ten people. There were a full hundred. After testing, the Stone Mask's demon-kind Gift had proved quite effective.

He was ready to expand its scale and build a vampire legion. These hundred would serve as elites, squad leaders, and the like.

He would train them first, then assign subordinates to them.

"S-so many vampires!"

"What is that mask? How can it turn so many people into vampires?!"

Leticia was astounded. As a pureblood vampire, she had never known there was a Gift that could turn people into vampires with absolute certainty.

Moreover, from his observations, this was different from a vampire drinking someone's blood and granting them the demon-kind Gift.

This was more like evolution! An evolution from human to vampire!

"Just a little tool. Don't mind it."

"As a long-established vampire queen, you should be very familiar with the vampire race, right?"

"From now on, your job is to teach them how to develop their abilities."

Qin Qi casually put away the Stone Mask and spoke.

Although he had experimentally had these vampires develop the Vaporization Freezing Technique, Space Ripper Stingy Eyes, and secret arts of the Pillar Men, among other things,

it still wasn't enough. He felt that these vampires' potential could be developed further, and that they could become stronger still.

"Am I to teach them?"

Leticia looked at the vampires as scenes from the past surfaced in her mind: those who had betrayed her, those who had remained loyal, and the sins she herself had committed.

All of them surfaced in her mind at that moment, and her expression grew a little strange.

"Can you do it? If you can't, I'll find you another job."

Qin Qi looked at Leticia and keenly noticed the change in her mood. After some thought, he spoke.

"I can. As a maid, I will do my best to complete the task you have assigned me."

Leticia took a deep breath, then nodded. Her current status was that of Qin Qi's property.

Since that was the case, she had to recognize her position. The boss had assigned her a task, so she had to complete it.

"Then do your best. I have a few other things to take care of, so you can train them here."

Qin Qi entrusted the matter to Leticia, then left to find Black Rabbit and take her to the forest outside.

"Phew. Do my best, huh?"

Leticia looked at the vampires and began observing their powers while teaching them what she knew.

That included, but was not limited to, the martial arts and swordsmanship she knew, military combat techniques, and the development of vampire abilities.

A week passed in the blink of an eye. Qin Qi's forces were steadily expanding, and the vampire legion was gradually taking shape.

"I have a question. Why couldn't the inspection be held during the day? Why did you have to call me out in the middle of the night?"

"I finally almost got my sleep schedule back in order, and now you've knocked it right back again."

Around midnight, Qin Qi had been called out of bed again, this time to see how the vampire legion was doing after its training.

"Because vampires are nocturnal creatures."

That was Leticia's answer.

"Fair enough."

Qin Qi and Leticia arrived at the stage area, where he saw the vampires. In the darkness of the night,

the red glow in their eyes was especially conspicuous, and some of their hair had turned golden.

The others' hair was also changing toward gold.

"Master, the tool you used is very strange. I've never seen anything like it, but its effects are also quite special."

"The demon-kind Gift it grants these children is limited to the single race of vampires."

"Also, the vampires created by that mask rank below purebloods, but are stronger than ordinary vampires."

"They have great potential. If they train seriously, they'll become a very good fighting force in the future."

Leticia told Qin Qi everything she had observed during this period, while another conjecture formed in her mind.

"Leticia... if you have something to say, say it all. Don't say half and leave the other half unsaid."

Seeing Leticia hesitate to speak, Qin Qi addressed her directly.

"Yes. The origin of Little Garden's vampires is that, in the beginning, they were summoned by a giant dragon to guard the world of Little Garden."

"And according to one account, vampires are actually future humans born from one possible future."

"In the future, a solar crisis that swept across the world may have occurred, and in order to escape it, humanity..."

"fled to a place without a sun. Deprived of sunlight, their bodies changed, growing stronger while becoming more afraid of light."

"This is only one account of the vampires' origins, but I feel it suits these children very well."

From Leticia's observations, rather than saying that the vampires transformed by the Stone Mask had been granted the demon-kind Gift,

it was more accurate to say that as they began changing from humans into vampires, their personalities also changed into those of demon-kind.

"I see. You mean these guys are still in the process of transforming, and that's why their hair is turning gold, right?"

Qin Qi hadn't paid much attention to this before, but now it seemed that the Gift Stone Mask was a more powerful tool than he had thought.

Chapter 33: The Floor Master's Trial, Unicorn Mask!

"Yes. If judged by human standards, these children whose hair has not yet turned gold are merely infants at present."

"Even those whose hair has turned gold are only little infants who have just learned to walk. If they are given more time to develop,"

"then perhaps, in the future, they may have a chance to become pureblood vampires, beings capable of reaching five digits."

Leticia shared her conjecture, doing her best to demonstrate the vampires' usefulness and future potential.

Even she didn't know why she was doing this. Perhaps it was because of the guilt she felt toward her race.