The Earth After Rebirth

He cleared his throat which caused a silence that was too instantaneous to be real. He tried using his reality warping abilities to change his voice and appearance, but he was met with an error message every time.

'fuck.'

"I suppose you guys are here for beast rental," He said with an obviously fake voice. "I'll need the first 10 of you to transfer the 100k to the account holder AD."

He had already created another bank account for this one thing specifically. He could never use his real one. He claimed it was a new company at the bank, and they told him it'll be closed down in 3 months if there was no activity.

Even though some suspected that he was Kiro, some like Isaac thought it wasn't. His post was also not very specific, it only claimed that, if you want to rent beasts this was where you needed to go. It never said Kiro himself was the beast tamer.

But he didn't care about their debates and theories, he was only here for business. To make money. Enough of it to gain him respect in his society, enough for him to hold a powerful position because only with power do people actually achieve the chance to inject real change.

He'd be idiotic if he thought he could destroy the current status quo without any real influence. So, albeit small, this was the start.

They, without hesitation wired him the money. His lips were trembling, he wanted to burst out laughing but he held his emotions. He even managed to even keep the smile at bay, not like they could see him under the ancient robe.

"I have beasts with the ranks from B to S. First come, first serve. It's also important to not choose it based on rank but based on your skills, if you choose one that's S and your skills aren't compatible, you will fail miserably.

"You can choose to ignore my advice of course, I don't really care since you've already paid me. Also this contract will be valid for one dungeon run, and you won't even have to come here to bring them back, they'll be summoned here when their jobs are finished."

He then let the first 10 into their mini forest, they picked their beasts. None asked which beast ranked what, they took his advice way too seriously and chose based on how compatible they were with said beast.

He managed to stay out of Isaac's way. He still observed him from afar. He was a mage and chose the bear that almost killed Hubris.

'Interesting choice. Give him a good dungeon run, Frost.' He smirked moving on to observe others.

He only had a handful of beasts to rent. So after giving them all and running out, he told those at the gate to give him a few hours. Since they wanted to do dungeon runs, they waited.

Kiro went hunting for beasts to tame. Making sure to get B to S Ranked ones only. He didn't want weak ones either, that would he bad for business and sure enough, he managed to amass around 30 in a span of a few hours with his newfound power it wasn't hard.

He went back to his base in an instant, seeing that some that left earlier had came back, his grin was uncontained this time, it spread throughout his thick lips.

He helped them in groups of 10s. He didn't want them to cause havoc within his base. By the time he had helped them all. He had made millions.

'I shouldn't waste this money, lest in-game conversion isn't introduced, I can use this money to buy those share.' He was very happy, things were starting to look up for him.

"I wish I could make real life money like that!" Hiro said, envious. m|v|l|e m|p|y|r original content

"But you can?" He shook his head, his friend didn't have a knack for business. Kiro himself also picked up some things in his past life because he studied finance.

"Mmm? Nobody would pay real money for guild buildings."

"Maybe, but you create weapons and armour sell those with creds and you won't be envious of me."

Like that, a light bulb descended from the heavens and into Hiro's head. "Goodness, you're right. Why didn't I think of that? It's so simple."

He had also made plenty of rare to epic weapons and armour since then, and very few legendary ones. None were ranked ancient though. He quickly snapped some pictures, using the game video camera.

He made a profile for each weapon and armour, it's rank and insane stats. The moment his friend gave him the idea, everything fell into place for him.

Him and Kiro worked tirelessly creating a website for their businesses. They simply named it After Dark, it would also help in the future. People can contact them through it.

They created three sections, one for weapons and armours. The prices ranged from 10k to 200k creds. The other was for beasts, with detailed information about each of them.

The site helped in that, nobody had to go waiting at the gate anymore. You can rent beasts using the site and just collect them with proof.

They shared their website on talkalot, on both of their accounts. It didn't go as viral as the last one, but it still got a lot of attention.

Hiro's products were selling like hotcakes. Their selling point went hand in hand, people would buy weapons and armour, then rent a beast, feeling a little bit overgeared they'd go on dungeon runs.

There was also information on the site that After Dark offers mercenary work. That's what the third section was for. They listed the five members not by name but by race and class. Starting with the leader, and the first to join by ascending order.

So naturally, Ishaan was complaining about being the last one.