"Who says otherwise?"
Ai Lei said, "Past battlefields were all around Dragon City, or even inside Dragon City itself. Even if Crystal Veins and monster breeding grounds were captured by Super Enterprises, the Superhuman Tower and the Survival Committee could still exercise some degree of management and oversight.
"But Otherworld is so vast. If Super Enterprises relied entirely on their own strength to march a hundred thousand miles away, found some Auspicious Land with Abundant Spiritual Energy, and let Peerless Experts divide the land and ennoble themselves there, proclaiming themselves kings and overlords, then how could the Superhuman Tower and the Survival Committee, sitting in faraway Dragon City with their reach falling short, exert any influence?
"By then, they would hold the initiative. If they were in a good mood, they might hand over some crystals and monster materials to Dragon City. If they were in a bad mood, they would not give you even half a copper coin. What could you do about it?
"And that's not all. There was an even greater risk hidden within this!"
"Oh?"
Meng Chao was intrigued. "What other risk?"
"Bonds and stocks!"
Ai Lei said, "The Nine Super Enterprises claim they will win the war to conquer the beast race through their own strength. But after decades of Monster War, followed by all this development in and around Dragon City, the Super Enterprises had no surplus grain left either. The pockets of Peerless Experts were empty as well. Otherwise, they would not need to resort to such immoral methods as hoarding Gene Serum to make money.
"So here was the question: with the Super Enterprises themselves so strapped for cash, what would they use to launch a Colonization War?
"The answer was naturally borrowing money. Whether issuing Additional Bonds or stocks, at heart,