OPERATIONAL OVERSIGHT

It had been a month since Daniel had started his project in Sol, he had since then purchased an office building in the city center with a sigil of a black dragon on the building. This was also the company logo for Balerion acquisitions.

He had also hired some human relations personnel , a team of accountants , media and publicity advisors and some secretaries. He now had a slew of employees thereby reducing his workload.

In terms of security , Daniel had employed fifteen personnel who trained regularly in CQB tactics and extreme firearms operations. After deliberating among themselves they had selected Mike to be head of security.

The apartments he bought had all been renovated into two bedroom condos and he was in the process of purchasing more . Sol had had a total of thirteen blocks and Daniel was planning on purchasing all available property little by little and he had started by buying properties on the first block. He had ten now and was now in the process of buying another ten apartment buildings.

Mr Anas was the councilman in charge of the 7th district ( sol ) and he was in his office listening to his aide who was reporting on the high rate of property purchases in Sol , all by Balerion acquisitions.

" So this Balerion of a company , what is their deal , have you found out who is behind them or what they actually want." Anas asked.

"No sir , the owner is quite a private person in fact no one actually knows who he is." the aide said .

"In that case set up a meeting with the company , i want to know who is responsible for encroaching on our turf " Anas replied, waving the aide off.

To Anas Sol was like a place of business to him , the gangs paid him a lot of money to look the other way from their activities. He then uses the fear of the gangs to propagate his campain , and once in a while the gangs would offer up some members to be prep walked and the councilman would have his photo shoot which made him look good in the public eye . In all things Anas was a very crooked politician , all politicians were like that but Anas was the greatest sleazeball of them all .

Daniel was in his office , he had been trying to scout which companies to tap from and add to his portfolio when he recieved a ring from the front desk ,it seemed like the councilman's aide had come for his meeting. It took a while for the aide to get to the office on the seventh floor.

" Welcome mr aide , what can i help you with ?" Daniel asked.

"  I have a meeting scheduled with the CEO " the Aide replied .

" Ah yes , I'm Daniel Jones, CEO of Balerion Acquisitions " Daniel said before walking into the office. "Please come in , I would like to know what I can do for you."

The Aide was shocked for a moment of how young Daniel was before entering the office.

" I will just go straight to the point Mr Daniel, the councilman wants to know why you are buying up properties in Sol' ,he wants to know your plans " the Aide asked while sitting on a couch at the corner of the office.

" Well I saw that with a little money I could improve people's lives while making profit." Daniel replied innocently.

" The development that your are carrying out in Sol' is detrimental to the councilmans campaign strategy , we would like it if you held off on your project till after the elections in three months " the Aide said, his tone becoming more haughty and condescending.

" I'm sorry Mr aide , do you know how much I would lose in a month if I stop development, I'll tell you approximately sixty million Sint and you are telling me that I should stop because of a campaign, forgive me but you know that that kind of explanation won't work. Tell the councilman that if he wants me to stop, he should provide me with a compensation that is equivalent to the amount of money that I stand to lose. If you don't mind I'll like to get back to work please" Daniel replied while showing him out of the door.

Councilman Anas sat in his office going through a news magazine when the aide stepped into the room.

" Everything went well I suppose?" Mr Anas asked,still flipping through the magazine

" Not quite sir , the boy asked for appropriate compensation in he was to stop what he's doing". The Aide replied

" Compensation?" Anas replied, dropping down the magazine "and did you just say that he's a boy , how do you mean."

"Well after the meeting I did a background check on him due to the fact that we did not know him. His name is Daniel Jones, he graduated from the command secondary school with honors, in fact he had the highest grades and competition awards ever recorded. After that he started Balerion cigars but no one knows how he came across the money cause he's an orphan and the money that the army pays as gratuity is a mess. Also the compensation he was requesting is sixty million per month." The aide replied.

"So does he have any external backing?" Anas asked

"No sir...."

"...in that case let those guys in the black axe gang handle it, just tell them that he is trying to encroach on their turf." Anas said waving off the aide.

That evening at about 8 pm Daniel decided that it was time for him to go home. He had been in the process of negotiating a deal with a textile and clothing manufacturer which was to be finalized the next day.

He hopped into the back seat and asked his security to drive off. He had only two guys with him because he thought that having a convoy follow him around would do nothing but draw attention to him.

They drove for a moment until a pickup truck skids through blocking the SUV just as they turned a corner. Four guys came out carrying shotguns and axes .

The guards seeing this sprung into action quickly, opening the door, rolling out of the vehicle and opening fire on the assailants.

In a matter of three minutes Daniel and the guards had taken down three out of the four assailants , the fourth was trying to escape from them when Daniel immediately shot him in the spine paralyzing him from the waist down .

He then rushed over to where the guy fell and asked " tell me who sent you and maybe I'll take you to the hospital".

The did not hesitate before blurting out that he was a member of the black axe, but he did not know who hired them.

When Daniel was sure that there was no reasonable intelligence that could be extracted from the guy, he shot him between his eyes.

After this encounter Daniel motioned for the group to take him home. He knew that this was not the end of things and it would get much more dangerous as the days go by unless he does something about it.