After the steel mill went bankrupt, Huggins' biggest business in St. Brand was the nightclub.
At this moment, he was on the top floor of his largest nightclub, Lanxiang Never Sleeps City, watching the men and women inside swaying to suggestive dance music through specially made high-definition glass.
Huggins is in his fifties, obese and weighing over 300 pounds. His small eyes gleam with a sinister light, making him look like no good person.
More than a decade ago, Huggins was just a small merchant selling groceries. It could be said that his family had been unscrupulous merchants for three generations. They had accumulated some wealth by cheating and swindling, but it was not substantial; they only had a little extra money.
By the time it came to Huggins' generation, he didn't want to be a small businessman anymore, stuck in the slums of the West End; he wanted to move into the city center!
So Huggins gritted his teeth, sold his family property, and even took out a loan to open a steel mill, hoping to take advantage of the low labor costs in the West End to enter the steel industry.
However, the steel plant dealt Huggins a heavy blow as soon as it was established.
The steel industry is not as simple as the small commodities he used to sell, where as long as they are produced, someone will definitely buy them.
Without sufficient vested interests, he simply couldn't open up sales channels.
Just as Huggins was feeling down about his loan being used up, he unexpectedly saved an alchemist.
Of course, Haskins had his own agenda in saving the other party. Haskins thought that alchemists had powerful connections and might be able to introduce him to some wealthy merchants and nobles.
But to his surprise, the other party was just a wandering alchemist, also of humble origin.
However, the alchemist gave Huggins an idea: he had obtained a method from the ruins to summon an evil god. As long as one sacrificed to Gordon, the god of wishes, one could fulfill all one's desires.
Alchemists all knew the consequences of sacrificing to evil gods, so he dared not do it.
But the alchemist wasn't deliberately trying to trick Harkins. He had already explained all the consequences to Harkins, and with nowhere else to turn, Harkins decided to take a gamble!
He secretly murdered several slaves he had purchased, sacrificing their limbs and organs to Gordon.
Surprisingly, it actually worked. Several small businessmen from other cities came to the steel mill to buy steel, which opened up a sales channel for the steel mill.
Having tasted success, Huggins decided to go all out.
He discussed with the alchemist the idea of building a hospital and setting up a ritual beneath it to sacrifice Gordon, the god of wishes.
Then, under the guise of the hospital, various amputations and even craniotomies are performed on the patients.
In this way, he will have an unlimited number of wishes.
The steel mill's business began to thrive, and he made many acquaintances with wealthy businessmen and nobles. The steel mill's business even reached a point where supply could not meet demand, and he successfully entered the central area, becoming a well-known steel tycoon.
As for the hospital, those who come to the hospital for treatment are all ordinary people from the West District. Even if something really happens, what can they do?
Most ordinary people, due to their lack of understanding of medical care, believe they are terminally ill even after having their hands or feet amputated, and are even extremely grateful to Huggins for the hospital's meticulous care.
However, some are unlucky and need to have vital organs such as the brain and heart removed, because the body part that Gordon needs to sacrifice is not fixed.
It doesn't matter. Just push it to the medical malpractice side. The surgical mortality rate in public hospitals is also over 50%, but no one makes a fuss about it.
Occasionally, a few people would sense something was wrong and try to get an explanation, but Huggins would dismiss them all with force.
Even if they report it to the police, it won't do any good.
They give more money to the Western District Police Department each year than the government allocates, so how could they possibly help those poor people?
In three years, Huggins had amassed a vast fortune, and most importantly, this fortune was 'clean' and could be freely investigated by anyone.
Unlike those gangsters or smugglers, whose money is kept in the dark.
The alchemist whom Huggins had saved also joined the Alchemist Guild with Huggins' financial support.
With ample financial support and his own considerable skills, he published one alchemical achievement after another, and had long since become a high-level alchemist.
And because of his shrewdness and the financial backing of Huggins, he even became a member of the Alchemists' Guild Council.
He is none other than 'Flame Sage' Fast, one of the seventy-two directors of the Alchemist's Guild!
The rituals for Gordon were always performed by Fast personally, and Fast himself even used Gordon to make several wishes.
Three years later, he realized that Gordon had received enough sacrifices. If he were to perform more sacrifices, he would need to offer his soul, and Gordon would also descend.
Therefore, Fast forcibly suppressed his and Huggins' greed, choosing to seal the altar, close the hospital, and the steel mill subsequently declined.
But Huggins used his accumulated wealth and connections to successfully enter the Central District and become a tycoon in the Central District's entertainment industry.
“Master Fast, my men in the West End have sent word that the altar near the hospital has been discovered.”
It was all caused by that bastard Jerome, whom I shoved into the molten iron!
During this time, he somehow became a superhuman and even restarted the altar!
Damn it!
"If I had known, I should have thrown him into molten iron and turned him into a block of steel!"
Huggins held a bottle of expensive red wine, gulped down half of it, then put the bottle down with a ferocious look on his face.
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