God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 445: The Final Straw

Everyone thought that when the convoy arrived at the City of Gold, official sales would begin immediately.

Especially after learning the City of Gold had everything ready—they were even more convinced.

However, that wasn’t the case at all.

After arriving at the City of Gold, the convoy launched a super long experience event. Anyone who came here could try out what magic-powered vehicles felt like.

Of course, this behavior made even more people realize just how awesome magic-powered vehicles were. So online discussions got livelier day by day.

The convoy leader also had to meet more and more people every day.

He felt his pressure starting to build.

So one day, he finally couldn’t help contacting Viscount Roster: "Lord Roster, when exactly will the magic-powered vehicle launch officially begin? When can we officially start selling?"

"After all, countless important people come to me every day asking about this."

"Especially the castellan of the City of Gold—he’s already come to urge me who knows how many times. As you know, his daughter currently works at Roster Territory Group Company, and her position isn’t low..."

Facing the convoy leader’s endless talking, Viscount Roster just smiled and said, "Don’t worry, it won’t be long before it starts. Very soon."

Viscount Roster thought about this and pulled up detailed information on steel futures.

This launch would become the final straw that broke steel futures’ back.

After seeing that growth had obviously started slowing down, trading volume had become very low, and funds seemed to be running dry in steel futures, he thought carefully.

"Alright, go notify the castellan of the City of Gold that the launch will officially begin seven days from now. Tomorrow we’ll introduce detailed information about magic-powered vehicles and announce specific prices."

"Also, we’ll simultaneously list different models of magic-powered vehicles on Shopping Mall and in the storefront of Roster Magic-Powered Vehicles’ official video account."

"Specific details will be announced at the launch. I’ll send you a detailed document in a bit."

"You’ll be in charge of this launch."

"Me?" The convoy leader was clearly stunned.

"That’s right, you!" Viscount Roster was very firm.

"But I’m just an insignificant little person in our company." The convoy leader panicked a bit. He’d never imagined the task would fall on him.

"No, no, no, how can you underestimate yourself?" Viscount Roster shook his head, his tone firm. "You’re the celebrity who was the first to drive a vehicle across multiple countries, spanning the entire continent from north to south. How could you possibly be an insignificant little person?"

"Your name will be recognized by everyone in the entire world as magic-powered vehicles become widespread."

"If one day this world has a God of Vehicles, you’ll definitely become a Pope-level figure, because you’re the person who first accomplished this feat."

"Everyone will remember your name!"

Viscount Roster went on and on, and the convoy leader listened with his mind wandering.

Just then, a document landed in front of him.

Were magic-powered vehicles important?

Of course they were important.

Did the magic-powered vehicle industry have value?

Its value was off the charts.

Definitely a pillar industry of the future.

Viscount Roster understood this very well.

But was this launch important!?

Viscount Roster felt it didn’t matter.

If they were selling right after development, the launch would undoubtedly be super important. He’d even hold the launch himself.

But this wasn’t that!

Since magic-powered vehicles first appeared, they’d shown up online who knows how many times. First developed, then modified versions, starting to be used on a small scale in Roster territory, forming convoys, being used alongside agricultural magic-powered machinery in the south...

After countless exposures, after this period of hands-on experience, people already had a pretty deep understanding of magic-powered vehicles.

They already knew tons and tons of stuff—so much that no promotion was needed, so much that almost everyone keeping up with the times already knew.

If that was the case, then there was no way Viscount Roster would focus his attention on this.

There were still tons and tons of other things to do.

Never mind anything else—ensuring the Southern territory’s magic-powered vehicle manufacturing plant could operate smoothly was the most important thing right now.

Relying solely on Roster Territory Group Company’s one magic-powered vehicle manufacturing plant absolutely couldn’t satisfy the huge market coming up.

The convoy leader didn’t disappoint Viscount Roster either. The launch went smoothly.

Magic-powered vehicles ranged from the cheapest at 888 gold coins all the way to 2,888 gold coins.

Of course, more expensive didn’t necessarily mean better. For instance, the largest model magic-powered cargo truck cost 2,888 gold coins, but for nobles, they couldn’t exactly drive a cargo truck around everywhere, right?

However, nobody really cared about that.

Because right now everyone was stunned by these prices.

They were actually this cheap.

The cheapest magic-powered vehicle only cost 888 gold coins.

888 gold coins—for ordinary minor nobles, this was an astronomical figure. They’d need to accumulate for about ten years to save that much.

But those were the most traditional minor nobles!

With the development of the magic-tech industrial era, people keeping up with the times could basically make that much money in a month just by starting any old factory.

For people killing it in financial markets, whether they actually had that much money or not, it just looked cheap anyway.

After all, they’d seen way, way bigger numbers.

This immediately caused huge waves on the Magic Net.

"Never thought magic-powered vehicles would be this cheap!"

"The cheapest only costs 888 gold coins—way lower than I imagined."

"Even better value than agricultural magic-powered machinery."

"A regular magic-powered cargo truck only costs 1,888, and the biggest one only costs 2,888. If I buy an 1,888 one, can’t I complete tons of transport jobs?"

"Isn’t this really good for steel trading? After all, at this price lots of people will buy them. The more people buy, the more steel gets consumed. Won’t steel prices go even higher?"

"Makes sense! I think so too."

"..."

People on the Magic Net discussed like crazy, with more and more people joining the conversation.

Right there in the City of Gold.

The Clarkson family.

"Patriarch, I feel like steel futures prices can keep skyrocketing this time. We should hurry up and buy some more!"

The clan elder who’d just attended the launch and returned home said excitedly to the Clarkson family patriarch.

"Uncle, we’ve already bet our entire fortune on steel futures. The family’s liquid funds are down to less than 400 gold coins—barely enough to keep the family running."

The Clarkson family patriarch said with a cheerful smile.

The clan elder also had a big smile on his face. "That’s great—however much it rises from here, that’s how much we make."

"But I still think we should buy a magic-powered vehicle for appearances."