[Congratulations! The Level of the System has risen to Level 3!]

[Current Reconstruction Restrictions:]

[Maximum Reconstruction Weight: >5000 kilograms]

[Maximum Reconstruction Volume: 10m × 4m × 4m]

[Daily Reconstruction Capacity: 0/20]

[Current Profit Quota: ₱0 / ₱200,000,000]

Richard stared at the floating blue screen for several long seconds while standing in the middle of his completely empty dealership. The afternoon breeze drifted through the lot, carrying the faint smell of concrete and warm steel roofing, but his mind was entirely occupied by the numbers before him.

Two hundred million pesos.

The new quota was exactly four times larger than the previous one.

Actually, considering how difficult fifty million had looked at the beginning, the figure should have been terrifying. Yet strangely enough, Richard wasn’t intimidated by it. He had started Level 2 with barely five million pesos in capital and no experience in the automotive industry. Several months later, he owned a successful dealership, had earned more than fifty million pesos in legitimate profit, and had sold every single vehicle he reconstructed.

The system had fundamentally changed his sense of scale.

He looked at the dimensions again.

Ten meters.

Four meters.

Four meters.

The numbers looked absurd.

His eyebrows slowly rose.

"Wait... that’s it?"

He reread the restrictions.

Five thousand kilograms.

Ten meters in length.

Four meters in width.

Four meters in height.

The implications slowly sank in.

The previous limit of five meters and two thousand kilograms had restricted him to ordinary passenger vehicles. Sedans. Hatchbacks. Crossovers. Mid-size SUVs. A few pickup trucks. Anything larger immediately became incompatible.

This?

This was an entirely different category.

A smile slowly spread across his face.

"Which means I can now reconstruct full-size SUVs."

The thought alone was exciting.

Vehicles like the Land Cruiser.

The Lexus LX.

Large American SUVs.

Even some luxury vans.

They all fit.

Then his eyes widened slightly. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

Luxury vans.

The Toyota Alphard.

The Lexus LM.

The Mercedes V-Class.

Those things sold for insane amounts of money.

Especially in the Philippines.

A lightly used Lexus LM could cost more than some houses.

And unlike sports cars, the demand for luxury people carriers among wealthy businessmen and politicians was surprisingly strong.

Richard’s breathing slowed.

No.

It wasn’t just luxury vans.

He looked at the dimensions again.

Ten meters.

Five thousand kilograms.

His heartbeat suddenly accelerated.

Those restrictions weren’t merely bigger.

They were exponentially bigger.

The additional length alone opened up an entirely new world of possibilities.

Minibuses.

Commercial vehicles.

Certain types of trucks.

Construction equipment.

Forklifts.

Small excavators.

Agricultural machinery.

The more he thought about it, the crazier the possibilities became.

He slowly turned around and looked at the empty dealership.

The lot suddenly seemed tiny again.

Almost comically tiny.

He had spent months building Phoenix Auto Trading, thinking it would become the foundation of his empire.

Now?

Level 3 was practically screaming at him to think bigger.

Much bigger.

He sat down on one of the plastic chairs beneath the roofing and continued staring at the blue screen.

[Daily Reconstruction Capacity: 0/20]

His expression froze.

Twenty.

He blinked.

Then blinked again.

"Twenty?"

He remembered Level 2.

Only one reconstruction per day.

That restriction had forced him to spend months stockpiling charges before opening the dealership.

Now the system had increased the daily reconstruction capacity to twenty.

Twenty reconstructions.

Per day.

Richard felt his scalp tingle.

That wasn’t an upgrade.

That was insanity.

The system was no longer encouraging small-scale entrepreneurship.

It was encouraging industrial-scale expansion.

At twenty reconstructions a day, he could rebuild an entire dealership’s inventory in a matter of hours.

He could restock dozens of vehicles almost instantly.

The bottleneck was no longer reconstruction capacity.

The bottleneck was capital.

And capital?

He had plenty of it.

The corners of his mouth slowly lifted.

For the first time since reaching Level 3, genuine excitement began replacing surprise.

The opportunities had multiplied again.

Cars had made him fifty million pesos.

What would luxury vans make him?

What about construction equipment?

What about heavy machinery?

How much money circulated in those industries?

Hundreds of millions?

Billions?

The thought made his pulse quicken.

The system had once again kicked open another door.

And judging by its size...

The door this time led somewhere much bigger than Phoenix Auto Trading.

Richard looked at the empty lot one final time before standing up.

The dealership had no inventory.

No customers.

No vehicles.

For the first time in months, Phoenix Auto Trading was completely empty.

Yet he couldn’t stop smiling.

Because every time the system leveled up, his life changed.

And based on those new restrictions...

It was about to change again.

ut wait.

Let’s focus on the automotive industry first.

Richard forced himself to calm down and sit back down on the plastic chair. The temptation to immediately dive into construction equipment and heavy machinery was enormous, but he had learned something during the past few months. Just because the system unlocked a new market didn’t mean he had to enter it immediately. He knew cars. More importantly, he had already built a reputation around them.

Phoenix Auto Trading was becoming a recognized name in the used car market.

Abandoning that advantage would be stupid.

His fingers lightly tapped the armrest as another thought entered his mind.

Second-hand cars were good.

Very good.

The profit margins were absurd.

But what if he didn’t limit himself to second-hand vehicles?

His eyes slowly widened.

Brand-new cars.

The idea sounded ridiculous at first, yet the more he thought about it, the more sense it made.

Some buyers entered the used-car market because they simply couldn’t afford brand-new prices. Others, however, wanted something else entirely. They wanted vehicles that were practically new but without the long waiting periods, dealership markups, and limited availability.

Some people would gladly pay for a vehicle with fifty kilometers on the odometer.

Or one hundred.

Or even five hundred.

A car that looked and smelled brand new.

A car that was technically used on paper but practically new in reality.

Richard slowly leaned forward.

That could work.

Actually...

That could work extremely well.

The system’s reconstruction settings already allowed him to control condition presets and mileage. There was nothing stopping him from reconstructing a salvage vehicle into a unit with only a few dozen kilometers and a registration history of merely a few weeks.

To customers, it would be a nearly brand-new vehicle.

To him, it would still be reconstructed inventory.

The margins would be smaller than selling million-peso luxury cars, but the customer base would become exponentially larger.

And there was another advantage.

Supply.

Brand-new vehicles in the Philippines often had waiting lists. Certain variants of the Land Cruiser, Alphard, and Lexus LM required months of waiting. Some dealerships even charged substantial premiums due to demand.

What if he could bypass all of that?

What if Phoenix Auto Trading became known as the place where people could immediately buy nearly brand-new, high-demand vehicles?

The thought made his pulse quicken.

That wasn’t competing with the second-hand market anymore.

That was beginning to compete with authorized dealerships themselves.

Richard looked toward the empty lot.

The dealership suddenly didn’t look depressing anymore.

Instead, it looked like a blank canvas.

He had capital.

He had reconstruction charges.

He had Level 3.

And now he had an entirely new business idea.

A slow smile spread across his face.