Chapter 81: Changing Careers

Chapter 81: Chapter 81: Changing Careers

Liam received the information on Sebastian at noon that day. The circumstances of Sebastian’s family were ordinary to the point where they could not be more ordinary. Three generations of Sebastian’s family had all worked as labourers in a flying car factory, his parents were both Betas, who came together out of love.

Although the household was not wealthy, because they were hardworking their life went by fairly comfortably. Both of these two had a straightforward character, they were not the sort of people who smile and talk to your face then stab you in the back.

Sebastian was the eldest child, below him there was a younger Beta brother. Compared with a pair of parents whose level of mental power was ordinary, the two Sebastian brothers were the outstanding individuals in their family.

From a young age Sebastian had passed into the Capital Military Academy, at first he was a logistics soldier, after that he was chosen by Ethan for the personal guard under the former Crown Prince. Sebastian was only an ordinary soldier, not involved too deeply in the tangled relations of the Royal family, so Sebastian was not dragged down after the former Crown Prince’s scandal.

However, instead of staying on in the Capital to become the personal guard of some other prince, Sebastian chose to leave the service, going with Ethan and the former Crown Prince to the planet of exile. The personal guards rode in a different ship so they were not affected by the explosion.

Sebastian’s younger brother was named Samuel Clark, who was also studying at the Capital Military Academy at present, in the Mecha Manufacturing department.

As for relatives, the Clark family’s native place was the planet Cassiopeia in the Orionis star system. After the war with the insectoid race a hundred and seventy-three years ago, the people on the planet Cassiopeia scattered each to a different place, so that by Sebastian’s generation there were no longer many who knew the deeper ties of kinship clearly.

Liam was fairly satisfied with Sebastian’s family, but there are times when a person’s character changes according to the size of their purse, so he decided to watch a while longer. He wanted to see whether a Sebastian with a great deal of money and power in his hands could get past temptation or not.

Throughout the month that followed, Liam stayed on the planet Sirius to keep close track of the progress on the acid sealing and the building of infrastructure. The work on Cygnus was taken on by Benjamin. As for Isabella, ever since the two of them came back from looking at the workshop, she had been busy with starting her enterprise, so that even the time for dates with Sebastian had to be snatched minute by minute.

Daniel had to run off to the Capital planet to oversee the operation of the restaurant branch, it had been a month now since Liam had met him face to face.

After opening two more branches on the planet Lyra and the Capital planet, their business model of cooked food delivered to the door had become a new step forward for the culinary industry across the whole Lumina Galaxy. A great many similar models sprang up everywhere, but the Luxe Morsel was still an undying monument. High society all across the Galaxy had begun to take the Luxe Morsel as the measure of what was fashionable.

Logan wanted to open two more branches on the tourist planet Eva and the planet Orion in the Orionis star system, and Liam proposed that he buy the brand rights. The Luxe Morsel’s exclusive recipes and foodstuffs had been registered as a trademark, so buying the brand rights means buying the brand name together with the right to use these recipes and foodstuffs within the scope of the brand organization.

If Logan were to carry these things off elsewhere, he would face a relatively heavy sentence, one that could wipe out the Cromwell family’s reputation in the space of a single note of music. Logan naturally knew this, and he still decided to sign the brand rights purchase contract with Daniel.

This business model of cooked food delivered to the door was everywhere, but to achieve what the Luxe Morsel had achieved you first had to have their exclusive recipes and foodstuffs. Instead of spending effort looking for a way to build a reputation from the beginning, buying the brand rights and paying a portion in annual brand licensing fees was still far more profitable.

The restaurant was Daniel’s, so Liam handed him full authority to decide this. After thinking it through and stepping out of the bonds of prejudice, Daniel grew sharper by the day, so that even an old fox like Logan could not gain any advantage off him at all.

Benjamin had wanted to shrink back several times, but Liam and Isabella were always behind him encouraging him. At his most recent check-up, the doctor said Benjamin’s condition had begun to show signs of recovery, which added to his achievements in the field of vlog filming, so Benjamin gradually regained his confidence.

However, he still felt he was short of one breakthrough. And this breakthrough lay with the very child he considered the least independent of all.

"Elijah? Alexander?"

When Elijah and Alexander turned up on the planet Sirius on the first day of winter, Liam very nearly dropped his jaw in astonishment. Because he had received no word at all from the Hall family about the two of them coming to the Polaris star system.

Elijah shrugged: "I have applied to change my course, at present I am a student of the Department of Cinematic Arts at the Lumina Film Academy. The whole family has agreed to let me go to the Altair campus to study."

Alexander laughed helplessly: "The boy only told the family after the transfer application had been approved, what else was there to do besides agree? I am bringing him to enrol, visiting you all while I am at it." 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Liam burst into a laugh: "All right, I am only surprised, I am not forbidding anybody anything. Look how tense the pair of you are. Come inside, quick. Benjamin and Isabella are both away, in the evening they will come home for dinner."

Elijah followed Liam into the house, while Alexander said: "I see the construction works in this area are finished, I want to go and look round a little. You two go on and talk to each other."

Liam nodded, calling Gabriel: "Gabriel, take him round for a walk for me, would you."

"Yes, Master Liam." Gabriel swiftly stepped forward, making a gesture of invitation to Alexander. Waiting until the two figures were out of sight, only then did Liam pull Elijah into the house. He poured Elijah a glass of soy milk, only then asking:

"Why the sudden switch to studying film?"

Elijah took a sip of the cool, clean milk he had been longing for all month, leaving a ring of milk round his lips. Once he had finished the milk, only then did he answer Liam:

"I suddenly had inspiration, so I switched. I have something here I want you to look at for me, to see whether there is the slightest promise in it."

Elijah set the glass down, opening his smart watch to transfer an electronic document over. Liam opened it to look, raising an eyebrow slightly as he read the title: "A horror novel? You wrote this?"

Elijah nodded: "That is right, written since last month, from the day you livestreamed cooking hotpot. Auntie Camila’s story suddenly gave me an endless source of inspiration, so I set to writing straight away."

Liam felt somewhat taken aback. It had not occurred to him that Elijah would be a person with artistic cells. Because Elijah danced very badly. If Liam danced like a star-beast with a lame leg, then Elijah danced exactly like a star-beast having a stroke.

He could not help concentrating on this novel more closely, the more he read the more he was carried along by the gripping developments inside it, not even knowing when Alexander came back.

Nirvana was a novel bookworm as well, one person and one system sat reading in one go without budging from the afternoon right through to pitch dark!