"It has been stuck at ninety nine percent for three hours."Victoria Price tapped her manicured fingernail violently against the monitor. Her face was pale with frustration.The glowing blue progress bar on the screen refused to move a single millimeter.They were attempting to upload the Royal Court joint album directly to AuraStream. AuraStream was the absolute, undisputed global monopoly for music streaming. Every single artist on the planet relied entirely on their proprietary servers to reach an international audience."Refresh the gateway port again," Elias suggested from the plush leather sofa."I refreshed the connection forty times," Victoria answered bitterly. "The file size is incredibly small. Our server connection is absolutely flawless. This digital block is entirely intentional."Ryan Parker sat calmly behind his pristine glass desk. He did not yell at the frozen monitor.He possessed absolute legal ownership of his music now. The honorary Master degree sat securely in

"You just bought her exactly twelve hours."The senior board member backed slowly away from the broken glass. He glared at Ryan Parker with pure corporate venom.Magnus Mace took a single, heavy step forward. The proxy executive immediately retreated toward the ruined doorway in pure terror."The AuraStream Tech Gala is tonight," the board member snapped at Elena. "You will stand on that main stage and announce your immediate resignation. If you refuse, we publish your medical records to the global press before midnight."The two corporate suits practically ran down the pristine hallway. They desperately wanted to escape the giant underground mercenary.Elena Vance stared at the spilled ink bleeding across the glass conference table. Her entire digital empire was collapsing right in front of her."They are going to completely destroy me," Elena whispered.She gripped the edges of her ergonomic chair. She was the youngest female tech billionaire in Silicon Valley. She was completely po

"Arrest him for corporate espionage right now."The senior board member screamed the order at the top of his lungs. He pointed a violently trembling finger directly at Ryan Parker.The Elysium proxy executive realized the young sovereign was actively standing at the master server terminal. The entire corporate coup was suddenly in massive jeopardy.A dozen armed corporate security guards rushed the main stage from the VIP wings. They reached simultaneously for their heavy tactical batons. They intended to physically drag the billionaire away from the keyboard.Magnus Mace stepped out from the deep shadows of the stage curtain.The giant mercenary did not draw a weapon. He simply cracked his massive knuckles in the harsh stage lights. The sharp, bone crushing sound echoed clearly over the screeching, distorted audio.The corporate guards stopped dead in their tracks.One terrifying glare from the underground kingpin completely paralyzed the entire security detail. They valued their own

"The progress bar just jumped from ninety nine percent to completed."Victoria Price stared at the massive digital monitor in absolute shock. The violent red warning icons vanished entirely from the screen.Ryan Parker walked calmly into the executive penthouse. He tossed his tailored midnight blue suit jacket onto the plush leather sofa."I told you I was going to fix their broken engine," Ryan stated smoothly.Victoria tapped her encrypted tablet frantically. The Royal Court joint album was officially live on the AuraStream global network.It was not just quietly available in the hidden search menus. It was plastered across the absolute center of the main platform."We are on the primary banner for all three billion global users," Victoria reported. Her voice shook with pure adrenaline. "We did not pay a single cent for this massive marketing placement.""We paid in absolute acoustic perfection," Ryan corrected her cleanly.Elias and Aria stepped quickly into the executive office. T

"You just wired five hundred million dollars in liquid cash to a bankrupt industrial zone."Victoria Price stared at the blinking financial terminal on her encrypted tablet. She looked completely terrified."I cleared out our entire first quarter streaming revenue," Ryan Parker confirmed smoothly. He signed the final real estate acquisition document on his pristine glass desk."The Elysium Summit owns every single music manufacturing facility on the planet," Victoria pleaded. "We need five million physical records by the end of the month to secure the Global Platinum Certifications. You just bought three abandoned automotive factories in Ohio.""I did not buy factories, Victoria," Ryan corrected her cleanly. "I bought raw industrial sovereignty."The Old Gods of Geneva thought they had completely trapped him. They used their ancient European wealth to buy every single vinyl pressing plant in the western hemisphere. They halted all physical production for Parker Media. They intended to