"To the poor and ordinary people of the entire Multiverse, basic food was an essential necessity of life. Unlike luxuries such as jeweled ornaments held by nobles, these numerous and indispensable goods possessed an astonishing influence that seemed minor but was in fact too vast to be measured by reason. After all, gold retained stable value because Legendary Mages' experimental research always consumed large quantities of mithril, a resource difficult to supply through one's own production alone; food, meanwhile, was unquestionably valuable because it was directly tied to the lives of the impoverished masses."
An elite charlatan truly was an elite charlatan. If brainless fanatics like Batuan spoke as though they were slapping the tyranny and rigidity of faith directly into everyone's faces, then Anthony's "reasoning with facts" wrapped originally autocratic and indifferent devout dogma in the outer garment of justice.
And if one merely listened, many people would probably think that what he said did seem quite reasonable...
Thus, standing directly below the map of the Kalamus Empire, "Radiant Purity," having completely shattered the awkward atmosphere of lingering smoke and transformed into a grand orator, began delivering a speech with her comprehensive theoretical knowledge:
"I believe everyone understands the terrible harm of inflation, yes? Once the amount of currency in circulation exceeds the actual needs of the economy, it causes currency depreciation and a comprehensive, sustained rise in prices. Over a given period, a general and continuous increase in prices throughout the economic system causes the purchasing power of currency that was originally stable in value to steadily decline.
And in the world of ordinary people at the bottom, food, which represented survival, was undoubtedly a currency system that circulated far more widely than gold coins that many farmers would never have a chance to see even once in