Chapter 80: Third Largest Shareholder

It seemed, with the presence of the system store, he did not really need to acquire so many skills in order to be able to surpass the richest person in the world.

The availability of the blueprints and other forms of technology within the system store would be very crucial.

If he acquired them at cheaper prices, once they were brought out, the value of those blueprints and other technologies would be quite high.

So, all that he needed to do was to acquire a technology company, then introduce the technologies into the market one by one.

That way, he could convert a small company into the world’s biggest technology company.

But of course, that was something that could be done later on. For now, it was still a little far away from him.

Michael thought, since he was in Brenton City, why not start by acquiring Sky Technologies? As long as he acquired Sky Technologies, he could start by introducing the low level technologies available in the system store.

Then slowly, he could begin introducing more advanced skills. This way, he could avoid too much suspicion.

As for the experts, all that he needed to do was to acquire the bio humans that were from the technological field.

Each bio human that appeared in the world was accompanied by an identity created by the system. So, if so many high class scientists worked for his company, who would doubt that this was their innovation?

And in fact, Michael might not even need to actively purchase so many technologies from the system store. After all, with the skill level of those scientists, they would be able to innovate many things.

Just the thought of it thrilled Michael. So, looking at his current balance, Michael decided to take action immediately.

From the over 6,000 SP, he decided to spend the 5,000 SP that he had just acquired.

Accessing the system store, Michael quickly found Sky Technologies, before he made the purchase of the shares.

With this acquisition, with each share priced at $10.53, and a total of 570 million shares, Michael was able to acquire 12.042% shares.

Added to the previous 2.5% shares, he now held a total of 14.5042% of the shares of Sky Technologies.

Immediately after the acquisition, Michael did a quick calculation, finding that his quarterly dividends had increased from the previous $900,000 to $5,220,512!

If it was converted into SP, it would be at least 52 SP for every 3 months. Even though it was not a huge amount, but it was very welcome. (Of course, it is impossible to convert cash into SP.)

If he judged by the number of SP that he would be gaining as long as he continued gaining expert level skills on each day, he should be able to completely acquire sky technologies in just a little over a week.

Thinking about it, Michael decided to focus on acquiring more skills. Now, he decided to go with the chef skills.

Since Adrian was the one that was in charge of all the meals in the house, he of course possessed high level skills.

The food that he prepared was at a very high level, completely incomparable to the dishes that he had eaten even at Crown Hotel.

In comparison to Adrian’s food, the dishes at Crown Hotel were comparable to dishes prepared by a kid in elementary school vs a Master Chef of a 5 star hotel.

By now, Adrian had already compiled the information related to the cooking skills, starting from the beginner level, all the way to the expert level.

At the moment, Michael did not have to focus just on the skills that would prove useful to him.

Now, he could just focus on acquiring skills that would grant him SP. And with the rate at which he was acquiring the skills, with a skill at the expert level within a day, if there was an urgent need of a skill, he would only need to read overnight.

But if it was an emergency that could not wait, he could acquire the skill from the system store. A skill at the expert level was valued at 3,005.5 SP.

This was if Michael did not possess the beginner, intermediate, and advanced level of that particular skill.

And from the looks of it, it seemed that it would be better as long as he kept at least 3,000 points aside.

In fact, just a little over 1,000 should be enough, considering that in most situations, advanced level skills would be more than enough to be able to handle the situations.

After contemplating about all this, Michael took a break of a few minutes, before he came back to start reading.

Since all the information was compiled into a single document, it consisted of over 2,000 pages. To be exact, it was 2,231 pages.

’If I start now, take the necessary rests in between, I should be able to complete this by tomorrow morning.’ Michael thought to himself.

As he set aside this thought, he began reading. In just a moment, there was a prompt from the system.

[Intermediate level of the chef skills. Progress: 1%.]

….

While Michael was calmly focused on reading, determined to acquire more SP, he was clueless that he had just raised another wave through Sky Technologies.

Inside the CEO’s office, Martin had a solemn expression on his face as he looked at the message on the screen of his computer.

It was an email from the chairperson of the company, informing him that the person, who had previously acquired 2.5% shares of the company, had just acquired 12% more.

This made Martin quite perplexed. After all, this person, after acquiring the previous 2.5% shares, he did not do anything.

He did not make any contact with the company, and neither did he give any instructions. He was silent.

And now, it had already been over an hour since Martin received the information about the acquisition of the shares.

But just like before, this person did not contact them. Did he, representing the company, need to contact him first?

Martin was currently wondering, should he just contact this person named Michael? After all, with a total of over 14% shares, this person held considerable amount of power within the company.

If it came to decision making, especially the crucial decisions affecting the company, this person would have to be involved.

At the moment, the biggest shareholder of the company only held 39% of the shares. This was the chairperson, who was in charge of the company.

The company itself did not have that many shareholders, as most of the shareholders had already seen the prospect of the company.

For that reason, they mostly never sold the shares. And in fact, a few years before, there was quite a large number of shareholders of the company.

But, as soon as the company began performing, some of the big shareholders began acquiring shares from the small shareholders.

This in turn reduced the number of shareholders to 7. And when Michael came in, he directly purchased the shares from the previously second last shareholder, and some from the last shareholder.

But now, with him holding a total of 14.5042% shares, he had already removed another shareholder, and reduced some shares from the other shareholders as well.

This made him the 3rd largest shareholder of the company. As for who was above him, it was another shareholder who held 28% of the shares.

This was exactly why Martin was concerned. The third largest shareholder of the company, it seemed that he would have to actively look for them.

As for what reasons this person was acquiring the shares of the company for, Martin did not believe that it was just related to the profits that would be earned with the increase in the value of the shares after the success of the R&D department.

During the previous meeting, the chairperson had clearly stated that all the shares were in a lock-up period. This was all just to make sure that no accidents occurred before the success of the launch.

So, when Michael first obtained the shares, it surprised Martin. After all, for the shares to be sold, it required the approval of the chairperson and the other shareholders.

And now, this person, just a little while after acquiring the previous shares, he acquired more shares once again.

“Have you heard any rumors recently? As long as they are related to the company and the shares, you can tell me.” Martin finally spoke, while gazing at Clara, who was currently standing in front of his desk.

In response, Clara shook her head as she said, “I have already tried investigating about this, but I have not found anything. It is as though this person appeared out of nowhere, and any information about them is non-existent, apart from what we have.

Maybe, the only people that might know about this person would be the shareholders. But, I don’t know if it will be okay if we ask them about the origins of this person?”

From the way that she was speaking, Clara was obviously unsure about this. After all, she was just a personal assistant, and had no ability to ask the shareholders about anything.

But as long as it was Martin himself, then there would be no problem about it. After all, Martin was valued by the shareholders, considering that he was the reason why the company had reached the level that it currently was.

Martin frowned slightly, before he said, “Okay, let me make a call. It would be better if we could get some understanding of this person, before they pop up in front of us.”

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