God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 443: The Next Plan

This time, when Roster’s magic-powered convoy passed through Gray Fort territory, both sides reached a certain cooperation agreement.

If nothing unexpected happened, by next Month of Revival, a magic-powered vehicle manufacturing plant would appear near the Gray Fort Empire’s capital.

This plant would have 30% of its equity belonging to Viscount Roster—considered a technology investment. Another 10% of the equity would be awarded to wild mages, apprentices, and others who made outstanding contributions.

30% belonged to the Gray Fort Empire’s royal family, and the remaining 30% belonged to investors.

The investors weren’t just one person, but more than a dozen nobles from the Gray Fort Empire.

They’d be responsible for paying all costs of the magic-powered vehicle manufacturing plant, including land, factory buildings, materials, personnel, and many other aspects.

Honestly, these nobles didn’t actually want to invest. These days, what could be more profitable than investing in steel futures?

Forget magic-powered vehicles—even if you threw in Roster Territory Group Company, it was just... whatever.

But facing the Gray Fort Emperor, they had to compromise.

During the last God of War incident, the Gray Fort Emperor had recently wiped out tons of traditional nobles. These new nobles’ territories and other benefits mostly came from the effort they’d put in during the reforms back then, plus rewards given after the God of War Battle Realm incident ended.

In other words, their foundations were all super shallow. If the Gray Fort Emperor got unhappy, he could totally take them all down.

In this situation, they had to compromise.

Fork over real money to invest in the magic-powered vehicle manufacturing plant.

Plus, this money had already been handed over to the royal family in advance. No other reason—the Gray Fort Empire’s emperor was also worried these nobles would throw all their funds into steel futures.

Right now, it felt like half the continent had gone crazy.

The Gray Fort Emperor believed that nothing in this world could keep rising forever. Even if something could, it definitely wouldn’t be steel.

There was no way they could consume that much steel.

As the emperor of humanity’s greatest empire, his spies were everywhere across the continent. He had access to way more information than other people.

Although even now he couldn’t quite understand the logic behind the whole thing, he could confirm one thing—this steel futures thing was like a bubble that could pop at any moment.

Of course, those nobles who invested in this magic-powered vehicle manufacturing plant didn’t think they were losing out at all.

Because they’d taken real money and actually invested in an industry that would consume lots of steel.

After news of the magic-powered vehicle manufacturing plant was posted on the Magic Net, without a doubt, it pushed steel futures to skyrocket again.

As the main players, they naturally made money in this wave.

However, most of them didn’t choose to cash out and call it safe. Maybe because they figured that if their emperor made this choice, kings from other countries might make similar choices too.

Just the magic-powered vehicle manufacturing plants spreading across the entire continent alone would consume an astronomical amount of steel.

This one industry alone might consume all the steel futures on the market.

Of course, there was one outlier among them—the guy called Tricky Coin.

It wasn’t that he hadn’t participated in steel futures this time, but rather he chose to let his profits run wild in the market.

He’d already pulled out all his original investment.

What was flowing around in the market now was entirely profits he’d gained from steel futures early on.

He made this choice partly because he felt steel futures prices had already far exceeded what steel should actually cost.

Under normal circumstances, with Foster Iron Mine’s production constantly rising, even if prices didn’t fall, they should at least stay stable.

How could they keep rising?

He still hadn’t fully figured out the futures trading market rules. Even though he couldn’t understand the current situation, he couldn’t bear to give up his current profits either.

So he chose to sell off some steel futures when prices reached what he figured steel should actually cost, and pulled out his original investment.

After that, he made quite a bit of money in the market.

All of it earned using profits.

Even if he lost it, he wouldn’t really care.

Because this was his learning process anyway.

He actually didn’t care about gold coins at all—he only cared about how gold coins affected other things during their circulation.

Of course, the reason he could say stuff like this was because he’d never lacked gold coins.

The Gray Fort Emperor shook his head, tossing out all the random information in his brain, focusing all his attention on the magic-powered convoy’s livestream.

The convoy’s final destination this trip was the City-State Alliance.

Although he didn’t know their exact itinerary, he knew they weren’t far off.

The City-State Alliance was nominally made up of over a hundred city-state nations forming an alliance, but it actually covered less area than one duchy of the Gray Fort Empire. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

It wouldn’t take long at all to reach the destination.

And he knew that when the magic-powered convoy reached its destination, that would be when magic-powered vehicles officially went on sale.

It would also prove whether his choice was right or wrong!

Even as the Gray Fort Empire’s emperor, facing such a huge choice, he felt massive pressure inside.

In the livestream.

The convoy leader quickly summarized his actions in Gray Fort territory, triggering resonance from countless people, then shifted gears:

"I’m sure you all know that the endpoint of our journey this time is in the City-State Alliance."

"The reason we made this choice is because the entire world is quietly changing because of the City of Gold."

"Next, we’ll be heading first to... the City of Epic!"

???

Everyone froze for a second.

Just a moment ago he was saying they chose the City-State Alliance because the world was changing due to the City of Gold.

Everyone believed that. After all, the stock, bond, and futures exchanges, plus Dragon Bank and Dragon Delivery headquarters, were all in the City of Gold.

Originally famous for commerce and possessing countless amounts of gold, the City of Gold had quietly become a new world center as these dragon industries moved in.

But why, after all that buildup, are you going to the City of Epic!?

The convoy leader didn’t even need to check the livestream to know how the chat was reacting. He just smiled:

"Of course, the City of Epic is just a city we’re passing through on the way. It’s our first destination in the City-State Alliance. Here, we can see tons of authors who write on Magic Net Books."

"They’ll be traveling with us to the City of Gold to witness this historic moment!"

"Because when we arrive at the City of Gold, it won’t just mark the success of new-style vehicles crossing multiple countries, multiple terrains, spanning the continent from north to south—it’ll also symbolize the arrival of a new era!"

"Magic-powered vehicles will officially go on sale after our success!"