It had been a little over two weeks since Liam Scott stepped into the global spotlight and revealed the existence of the world's first and only private A380—a feat so absurd and unprecedented that the world simply halted for a moment.

The news had erupted all over the world and was on the lips of everyone.

For seven days straight, every major media outlet across continents pushed stories about him. Every social platform circulated clips, edits, theories, and speculation about his identity and how he was able to get an aircraft like that.

Some called him The Wunderkind.

Others titled him The Real-World Bruce Wayne.

Some went even further, calling him The New Titan of Wealth.

But like all storms, public fascination eventually drifted away. People returned to their jobs, their routines, their survival.

However…

The elite did not move on.

While the masses forgot him, the small circle of the world's true ruling families—the dynasties who controlled trillion-dollar flows, global intelligence networks, governments, industries, black markets, militaries, and institutions—began digging.

They had been investigating Liam Scott quietly, cautiously, and obsessively for over three weeks and what they have been able to uncovered sends a chill down their spine.

As for what they have been able to uncover, it's almost nothing.

Yes, the fact that they have been able to uncover nothing is what is scaring them so much. It can't be helped.

Among these old families, one rule had guided them for centuries:

"Everything must have a logical explanation."

No mystery was ever truly a mystery, no miracle existed, no anomaly survived scrutiny.

And no "independent" power ever rose without one or more elite families pulling the strings from behind the scenes.

If a global-scale organization suddenly appeared claiming influence, it was guaranteed that an elite family already sat quietly at its highest table.

If a billionaire appeared overnight, it was because the elite allowed it—because he was tied to them, funded by them, or owned by them.

There were no exceptions. Even self made billionaires aren't truly self-made.

That's how the world is run, until Liam.

A eighteen-year-old boy appeared seemingly out of thin air and purchased a multi-million dollar mansion, a luxury yacht, a private helicopter and the only private A380 ever built—an aircraft so expensive that even oil monarchs backed away from the idea

He made the impossible look casual.

And to make things worse, he bypassed their system.

The system they had built over generations—through shadow governments, private intelligence, royal ties, banking monopolies, and interlocked industries—failed to detect him, failed to flag him and failed to control him.

That alone was a violation of natural law in their world.

If the system they designed could not contain him…

Then clearly, something else stood above their system.

Something they could not see.

Something they could not influence.

Something—perhaps—protecting him.

And that made Liam more terrifying than any weapon or any organization the families had ever encountered.

This is the reason why even before they had barely started the investigation into Liam's background, the world's elites had already come to a decision.

"Do not antagonize Liam Scott under any circumstances."

This order was passed down quietly from patriarchs and chairwomen to every branch of their empires:

No one should put him under any form of surveillance. They shouldn't interfer with him or whatever he's doing. No coercion. No testing and no hostile approaches.

The message was clear:

If a young man walks with a lion, you do not fear the lion. You fear the master it obeys.

And Liam was walking around with a metaphorical lion so vast, so invisible, so silent… that no one even knew where to begin identifying it.

The families weren't afraid of Liam.

No.

They were afraid of whatever entity stood behind him.

Except… investigations revealed something even worse:

There was no entity.

The deeper they searched, the more they realized—

There was nothing behind Liam.

Nothing that made sense, anyway.

And after three relentless weeks of digging:

No family records.

No discreet mentorship lines.

No black-budget government ties.

No secret inheritance trail.

No offshore corporate empire connected to him.

No evidence of criminal ties.

No private intelligence backing him.

They uncovered only one thing, which an evidence of a financial management structure… likely a family office

This is the structure that they presume is managing the decades old inheritance record that was willed to Liam.

But for the elite families, the horror had only began. Because both findings created more questions… not answers.

Because every elite family knew a truth:

Even the first prototype family office from the late 1800s has a public historical footprint.

And yet, this structure had no footprint at all.

No founding year, legal expansions, leadership changes, gounding family name, trace within any intelligence archive. Not even within the oldest intelligence networks in human civilization—the Vatican's and the Swiss ledger archive.

For the elites, this was unthinkable. And only one possibility remained:

The structure predates every known financial dynasty.

Something older than their oldest records.

Something older than their intelligence networks and something with operational continuity spanning generations.

Something that, theoretically… can no longer be called a simple financial management structure but one that can move the world in whatever angle it pleases.

To them, if such a structure wills it, they will be wiped off the surface of the earth.

Each family understood what that meant.

For people who valued generational lineage, preserved wealth, global influence, power continuity, family reputation and legacy inheritance

Being wiped out was not death. It was worse than death.

It was annihilation.

It was the undoing of their existence.

And so they vowed something unanimously:

No member of their family would ever harm, offend, or obstruct Liam Scott.

If one heir dared provoke him, that heir would be abandoned without hesitation.

Bloodline meant nothing compared to survival.

Of course, not every organization got the memo.

A few rogue entities—greedy and extremely ambitious conglomerates, intelligence branches, political powers and groups—believed that Liam could be recruited, manipulated, threatened or absorbed into their influence.

The old families watched silently, almost sympathetically. They already knew the outcomes. They knew what happens to people who poke the unknown.

They waited patiently to see which organization would collapse first.

And they pitied them.

Of course, they would be lying if they said that they don't want to meet Liam and get to know him better. But they can't risk their families to do that.

***

Just when they thought their anxiety could not escalate, another anomaly surfaced.

A company appeared.

A company with no founding document trail, no shareholder history, no digital footprint predating its announcement, no executive list, no corporate genealogy, zero public data and absolute confidentiality

Yet it was perfectly legitimate.

And worse was that it was created under JP Morgan's private banking wing.

That alone made it untouchable.

No family—no matter how powerful—would pressure JP Morgan's Private Bank.

That was suicide.

Private banks survive by protecting their highest-tier clients with absolute confidentiality. Attempting to breach that would cause the global financial world itself to collapse.

So the families stepped back, forced into an uncomfortable position:

They could neither investigate this mysterious company nor challenge the institution backing it.

Their only option:

Pretend they saw nothing.

But for elites who had spent centuries believing the world existed under their control, this felt like being mocked, ridiculed and toyed with.

As if an invisible force was whispering in their ear, saying "Everything you pride yourselves on, is nothing but an illusion."

And that realization that they were not the apex predators they believed they were, was infuriating and terrifying.

And for the first time in generations, the elite families felt the edge of a truth they had never considered:

Someone else was playing the game.

Someone far above them. And Liam Scott was the only visible piece on the board.

Of course, it's not difficult for them to link Liam to Nova Technologies, but the problem is that they have no evidence to prove it and it will remain like that until the entity behind Liam says otherwise.

As for when that would be, they have absolutely no idea. But they are sure that the world is going to be out of their grasp by then, and the only thing they will be able to do is fight for their survival.

As for attacking Liam or Nova Technologies directly, or indirectly, they dare not. They stand to lose a lot more than they stand to gain.

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