System Check-In: Phantom Tower – CEO Floor
Check-In Complete
Milestone Bonus: Corporate Execution Unlocked
Rewards:
– $6,000,000
– New Skill: "Market Guillotine"
→ You may target a rival company. If they accept your challenge, a financial duel begins.
→ Outcome: hostile takeover, media obliteration, or full market collapse
Target Available: RavenTech Corp
– Current CEO: Richard Lowell (former rival of Damon's father)
– Secretly funding political efforts to label Phantom Industries a "front for digital warfare"
Damon clicked: "Engage."
Campus Life — A New Challenger Appears
His name: Griffin Thorne
– Ivy League legacy
– Member of the elite "Titan Hall" inner circle
– Media darling
– Comes to St. Monarch talking big:
"Damon Black is smoke and mirrors.
Let's see if he can handle real legacy."
Damon's Response?
He walks onto the quad in a charcoal black suit, Nova and Arielle flanking him, Zhenyu three steps behind.
"Legacy is inherited.
Power is built."
"Let's play."
System Alert – Academic Duel Tier II Triggered
Challenge Accepted – "Campus Dominance Market War"
– Both parties launch public ventures under St. Monarch's Investment Society
– Real profits, real market stakes
– Winner earns control of campus innovation fund ($300M), exclusive faculty board seat, and elite media presence
Damon activates: Phantom Nexus
– Student-developed AI under Phantom Industries, launched as a "tech philanthropy" startup
– Fully functional — powered by ARCHAIOS in stealth mode
Results in 36 hours:
– 22,000 downloads
– 3 Ivy League schools request demo
– $90M in private capital offered
Griffin? Still pitching.
System Update: Market Guillotine Success
– RavenTech collapses due to AI exposure and silent investor pullout
– Damon gains $340M in assets + 2 senators tied to the board
Griffin Thorne: Crushed
– Social Reputation: -72%
– Campus Status: Obsolete
Underworld Expansion — Nova's New Throne
Nova leads a brutal Phantom-backed raid on a Miami-linked cartel port.
Takes over without mercy.
Leaves behind a note:
"Phantom doesn't ask for permission.
Nova doesn't ask twice."
System Alert – Nova's Territory Secured
– $4.5M/month revenue increase
– New Passive: "Red Widow Protocol" activated — any threat against her auto-flags across all Phantom systems
Final Moment — Damon's Office
Griffin knocks.
Damon doesn't let him in.
He just sends a single envelope under the door.
Inside?
A Dracas coin.
"You talked like a king.
But forgot who runs the bloodlines now."