.. additionally I was asked to pay for my new rank as a hero here equivalent over there, I felt no need to pay for the rank so I just left it like that.
There may have been misunderstanding and you should seek clarification of same, I teleported my rank from here to there, didn't have to pay anything.
There is no misunderstanding, I already communicated to the admin over there and his response was same thing. if you have once teleported your account and you don't keep up with the forum and you rank up over here, hence if you request your account to be ranked the same level with that of this forum then you will be asked to pay a fee.
I don't know if it's new or only me maybe other will have an idea of that but feels like it's usual.