ENTER: BALERION

When the money starts coming you try not to ask any questions.

You still think there's good and bad right and wrong, there isn't. There's just this; survival , security and pleasure. If you think that you're nothing ,you are nothing till the day you die .

It has been three years since Daniel enrolled in command secondary school and now he has finally graduated.

During his time in the school he had just been hoarding awards for the school to the fact that in the last three years all schools had unconsciously started vying for second position in any competition that had Daniel as a contestant.

He also had straight A's throughout his time as a student with an average score of 95.

After his little run in with the school authorities Daniel had a relatively peaceful time at the school, but the kingslayers thrived like a bunch of wild flowers on a field.

Their numbers grew to about 150 before Daniel stopped recruiting now he had to see a very serious potential before offering an invitation.

By the time Daniel got to SS 3 almost all the prefects and house captains were members of kingslayers. The kingslayers also fostered a kind of competition in school there by raising the bar for academic excellence.

The senior officers had tried in one way or another to recruit him to join the army even getting the army to extend his scholarship till he was done with college. But Daniel rejected their offer.

Other colleges both government and private had extended invitations but there was still about four to five months till the next academic year will begin so he just put it off for a later date.

The little business that Daniel started with just §10k had made him over §15 million in profits in the three years since it's establishment.

He now had §16.3 million in his bank and §200k in cash , a significant amount for someone at that age but it paled in comparison to the amount he needed to live without worries. Not that the money was little , if he decided to live frugally it could last up to ten years for him.

The first thing Daniel did after graduation was to buy a smartphone. Then he went to the national chamber of commerce to register a business called Balerion Acquisitions. Then opened a bank account under the company name and transferred half of §13 million out of the §16.3 million into the company account leaving him with §3.3 million in his personal account.

He then rented a furnished two bedroom apartment in a suburban neighborhood for §1 million per year, he paid for two years. One of the rooms was to serve as a home office.

He also bought a compact car for §2.5 million , a laptop, a desktop and some external hard drives. All these expenses were made from the new company account.

After making all these purchases and fixing up the apartment according to his taste he then finally moved out of the barracks. The army's compensations amounted to about §260k and was not calculated as part of his regular income . He was going to use this money to purchase clothes and accessories.

Two weeks after graduation, Daniel was all settled up in his new apartment, he was running on a treadmill he had installed in his home office, the office served as a home gym as well. It was the only way Daniel could stay fit while earning money .

Daniel saw on his computer that one of the stocks that he was monitoring had reached the margin that he had set for it.

The company he had planned to invest in was a construction company (JJX construction) that had almost gone bankrupt and people were hurriedly selling the stocks. But among those selling the stocks, he found evidence of short selling. It was a tactic used to devalue stocks, it was also a tactic big companies used when they wanted to acquire a company for less money than it was actually worth.

Daniel then rushed to the computer and started taking by orders . The company had 25% of their shares in circulation and Daniel managed up to by 11% at §2.5 million. If he was a second late the other side could have just gobbled up everything leaving nothing for him. After the trade Daniel left the system and went back to his workout routine, his heart pounding in anticipation of the result of his risky investment.

The next day rumors started floating around that a big conglomerate was planning to buy up JJX. By the end of the week the conglomerate had released a statement confirming their plans to purchase the company which caused their stock to rise exponentially. And by Friday of the next week the stock Daniel had bought was now worth twenty times the original amount that is §50 million.

Daniel immediately sold of §25 million worth of stock and the remaining twenty five million was to remain as shares to earn dividends which was about 7 percent ( §1,750,000 ) monthly.

Although this conglomerate had earned billions of sints, the directors didn't like the fact that someone had a voting share in their newly acquired company so they started to investigate Daniel or rather Balerion Acquisitions.

Daniel on the other hand knew that he had to declare his acquisition and as someone who had up to five percent of the company shares he would have to meet with representatives from the conglomerate and maybe not everyone would be pleased with his swift steal.