March 2 – The Plateau That Wasn't
For the past week, MC had deliberately slowed his activity, letting the market think the strange wave of trades had eased. Price charts returned to what analysts called "normal volatility."
To the untrained eye, the ghost had vanished.
To Aarya, the silence was the coil before the strike.
> MC: "We're letting them get comfortable. The moment they blink, we take the big leap."
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March 6 – The Catalyst
Halfway around the world, a shipping crisis in the Panama Canal—caused by low water levels—made news headlines. To most, it was an odd curiosity.
To MC, it was an open gate.
Cargo delays meant rising prices in certain commodities: copper, soybeans, and crude oil.
By the time market chatter caught up, he already had $400 million spread across futures contracts, ETFs, and strategic short-term stock positions.
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March 11 – First Crack in the Mask
In a small Delhi brokerage firm, trader Rohit Malhotra stared at his screen in disbelief. His modest $12,000 investment in copper futures had ballooned to $57,000 in three days.
He had no idea that somewhere in Dehradun, a man with godlike foresight had just made him the happiest he'd been in years.
Rohit's mind was on the debts he could finally pay—loans, medical bills for his father, his sister's pending wedding.
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March 15 – The Climb
In the quiet hum of his room, MC watched positions mature like perfectly timed fruit harvests.
Copper profits rolled in first, then soybeans, then oil.
The portfolio passed $600 million before March was even over.
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March 19 – Ghost in the Data
Raghav Mehta's monitoring software flagged a massive synchronized position change—identical timing across multiple continents. Whoever this trader was, they weren't just good. They were impossible.
We're looking at an AI… or a very big team, he thought, pen tapping against his desk.
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March 22 – The Silent Billion
The big push came with a tech sector rebound in the U.S., right after a string of overhyped bad news caused panic selling. MC scooped up underpriced shares, held them for just over a week, and watched them rebound like a slingshot.
At 03:14 a.m. on March 29, his net worth hit $1.002 billion.
No champagne. No fireworks. Just a soft chuckle.
> MC: "First step's over. Now we dig the moat."
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April 1 – The Accountants
For the first time, MC brought humans into his empire. Two accountants—one in Singapore, one in Zurich—were hired under the guise of managing "family investment trusts."
They never saw the true transaction origins. Everything was funneled through shell companies and holding structures Aarya had drafted with surgical precision.
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April 12 – Ripples in the Pond
Rohit Malhotra paid off his father's hospital bills in full. The old man cried. The family celebrated with samosas and jalebi.
To them, Rohit's success was luck and courage.
They didn't know it was the side-effect of riding in the wake of an invisible financial leviathan.
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April 20 – The Moat Deepens
By mid-April, MC's portfolio was diversified across 46 countries, 117 shell corporations, and over 600 individual asset positions.
On the surface, he was just a quiet young man in Dehradun.
Underneath, he was an untouchable entity with a growing fortress of wealth and secrecy.
Aarya's holographic projection appeared beside him in the dim light.
> Aarya: "Phase three?"
> MC: "Yes. But we'll make them think it's still phase one."