But buying people off was much cheaper.
And once those people were mistaken for the Puppeteer's puppets, no one dared bully them anymore, so the price of bribing them became even lower.
Spend 5 bucks to accomplish something worth 500 million.
The Puppeteer truly understood the two words "human nature."
No wonder no one had dared provoke the Puppeteer to this day. No one even dared speak ill of her.
Because people still believed that the Puppeteer was constantly adding to her collection of puppets. Perhaps your friend, your family member, or your wife might be one of the Puppeteer's puppets.
The simpler and more easily understood a method was, the less people believed it.
Because everyone thought that, as a Transcendent, the Puppeteer would not do something so low-class.
And that crisis of trust was, in essence, a test the Puppeteer had set for herself: a test concerning human nature, the human heart, and puppets.
A test for becoming a Transcendent...
And then the Puppeteer succeeded.
That was right. Before she set off the crisis of trust, the Puppeteer had not yet been a Transcendent.
The Puppeteer had played the entire Dimensional Sea!
Of course, a certain unnamed but famous Transcendent had indeed secretly supported her once.
But only once.
And the Puppeteer had used it at the very beginning... creating signs that she was about to become a Transcendent.
That had happened... twenty years before the crisis of trust.
Because people did not think anyone would open with an unbeatable hand, the Puppeteer's gamble succeeded.
And those Transcendents, out of respect for that certain unnamed but famous Transcendent, chose not to expose her.
Meanwhile, ordinary people in the Dimensional Sea had not been affected by this test at all, because everyone thought that to become one of the