Location: St. Monarch University – Business Hall, 9:47 AM
The halls buzzed with polished ambition.
Sons of oil barons. Daughters of CEOs. Legacy scholars from old money.
They walked loud.
Laughed loud.
Flaunted louder.
And then he walked in.
Damien Vale.
Tailored charcoal suit. Black tie. Pocket watch clipped like it belonged to a king.
No one knew where he came from.
But professors took him seriously.
And students felt something strange when they stood too close.
He didn't demand space.
He just owned it without asking.
System Check-In: Lecture Hall – Global Economics
Check-In Complete
– Reward: $1,000
– New Passive: "Academic Tyrant"
→ You retain, process, and apply complex knowledge 5x faster than human average
Class Performance: 100%
Social Presence: Strategic & Silent
Meanwhile – Legal Business Ventures Begin
Backed by phantom capital funneled through silent investors, Damon launches:
Vale Holdings, Inc.
→ A clean multi-layered shell for property, clean tech, and media investments
Echelon AI
→ A consumer brand with cutting-edge AI assistants — covertly run by ARCHAIOS
Cryptic Talent Agency
→ A front. Half marketing firm, half recruitment funnel for talent in both corporate and criminal worlds
Each venture seeded in private.
No press. No drama.
Just quiet ownership.
And mounting control.
Narration – Damon's Public Persona
He speaks rarely in class.
Sits at the back, but answers questions no one else dares.
He wears black, grey, or midnight blue. Always fitted. Always calculated.
Some girls whisper about him.
Others stare too long before looking away.
A few guys try to compete.
They fail.
Not because he's flashy.
But because he makes silence feel like royalty.
Final Scene – Secret Meeting with Zeke
Zeke meets him in a reserved chamber off-campus.
Updates him:
– 3 new territories stabilized
– Nova is still searching
– One of Damon's professors is tied to a tech conglomerate he's about to buy out
Damon nods.
Unbuttons his cuffs.
Checks his watch.
"Let the streets run themselves.
I'm building something even the world has to bow to."