Into The Portal: Monster Invasion

Auction caused an unprecedented uproar in Unity. Almost half of the population watched the auction live from their homes. All of the people living nowadays knew the importance of dual elemental orbs.

Miles after the auction returned home and had a great sleep. He achieved his prime goal, earning buckets of money. Now he had to get the money and buy a few orbs to merge orbs for the forthcoming Graders competition.

Miles of course knew that taking the money wouldn't be easy. The reason for him to talk with two families was to see if he could take advantage of one of them. Lemaze family, albeit remorsefully, let Mother AI talk with him, so he couldn't trust them, and the Shin family wasn't strong enough to stand against pressure. Miles didn't want to put them into the spotlight after they helped him, either.

When he saw his mother taken backstage the previous night, he made sure the Shin family kept their word. Evelyn didn't talk about it, but Miles understood it from her absentmindedness.

Now he could only allow the Shin family to send the money to the Lemaze family, and the Lemaze family to deposit money to his shop on the online shopping site, Unizon. He would be using the same site to do his shopping in the future, so keeping money there wouldn't affect him at all. 'Or the other plan, although I am not sure of it.

"Now is the best time." Deciding taking action would be best, Miles called the Shin family without waiting.

"Mr. Marooner, greetings." Shin Ryu enthusiastically received the call.

"Hello, Mr. Shin. I hope you have been good." Marooner's husky voice was heard from the hologram screen. He was in the same dark room, with only his silhouette could be seen.

"Better than ever." Shin Ryu answered with a beaming smile, and asked, "Have you called to let us know your account information? We are waiting to send the money to you."

"That is the reason why I called, but I, sadly, will not give you my account information." Marooner shook his head, and continued, "I need to keep my identity secret."

Shin Ryu wasn't displeased at all, he thought for a second and asked, "How about we meet and I send the money through anonymous transfer?"

"I thank Mr. Shin for his honesty and commitment. It is not that I don't trust your family, otherwise, I wouldn't choose you for auctioning, but transferring money leaves traces." Marooner's answer made Shin Ryu taken aback. He looked at the virtual screen with a squint.

"You mean?" He asked.

"I am not sure. But I cannot be too sure." Marooner nodded and answered. Mother AI was keeping Miles in her watch constantly ever since he left his uncle's laboratory. Marooner was also high profile recently, and Miles didn't want to risk his identity by showing himself.

"Then, how can we send the money? Sadly, I don't have any other ideas." Shin Ryu was perplexed. The money was their customer's and he had to give the money back.

"Go to my shop in Unizon. There is only one item there with the same price the orb auctioned. I want you to buy the item, so money would be in my Unizon account." Miles answered. He thought of several plans and concluded on this one.

He couldn't receive money any other way but this. After all, the account wasn't linked to any bank account and even if Mother AI risked offending all big families and the government, she still couldn't find who the Marooner was. Also, Miles, through the account, could still buy whatever he wanted.

"Brilliant!" Shin Ryu exclaimed and tapped on his wristwatch excitedly. In less than a minute, he found Miles's shop, Maroon Workshop. There, only one item was on sale. It was a simple thank you card with nothing special, but the price was a sky-high a billion UD.

Shin Ryu looked at the View count of the item and was surprised to see the item has been looked at more than several hundreds of million times. He ignored it and completed the purchase, and with it, the transaction with the Marooner was done.

"Thank you, Mr. Shin. You have been a great help." Miles thanked him truly because Ryu Shin did his best to help him. "Inside the card, there is a code. It will allow you to have priority for my next sale with a 20 percent discount. Take it as a token of my appreciation."

"You didn't have to, Mr. Marooner, but I will not deny it. Thank you in advance." Shin Ryu nodded and ended the call. The card was something that could be printed by ordering, so Miles didn't have to ship it to Shin Ryu himself. That is why it was more convenient. After the money was transferred to his account, he started his shopping spree, but what he didn't know was that the Unizon community was in turmoil because of him.

Early in the morning,

Jeremy had a rare type of superpower. His powers, unlike others, were useless in combat, preventing him from entering the portal world and fighting against monsters. His superpower was Smell of the Money.

With this power, Jeremy could smell opportunities like a shark in the ocean. At a young age, with little to no money he purchased and sold items to make his fortune. He bought and sold shops, cars, orbs, cores, and weapons. And slowly, his powers also got much stronger.

He was even about to be employed with one of the biggest shops in Unizon to appraise their items. With his nod of approval, the buyers would be more certain, he also would enjoy a 3 percent commission for each comment he put under items. He was thinking of accepting the offer, but the shop didn't want him to buy and sell from another shop or work as a freelancer.

In the morning, while he was still straddling between accepting the offer or not, he received a message from one of his most frequent employers. The message was a link to Unizon as always and wanted him to look at the item. When Jeremy did open the link he was dumbstruck.

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