The next morning.
For the citizens of the Imperial Main City, the first thing they did after getting up every day was to shout... No, that was wrong. It was to check the day's Sea God Stone market and see how prices were doing.
After all, things were still fairly primitive in this regard, so there was only one way to check prices: visit the various Trade Stations and look at their posted listings. Some newspapers had originally planned to add a section for it, but later discovered that people were faster than the papers themselves, so they could only give up resentfully.
However.
When the citizens flooded into the Trade Station established by Night Sin City, they were all dumbfounded.
"Low-grade Sea God Stone... forty silver coins per hundred grams?!"
Seeing the price on the board, everyone stared at one another wide-eyed.
It had still been fifty silver coins per gram yesterday! How could it possibly plunge this much in a single day?!
It had shrunk by more than a hundredfold! It was even cheaper than when the Sea God Stone trade had first begun!
In other words, even if someone had bought Sea God Stones on the first day of trading and done nothing afterward, they would still have lost a full twenty percent by now!
To be fair, a twenty percent loss was no small sum to begin with, and that was only in the special case of entering the market on the "first day of trading."
The price of Sea God Stones had been skyrocketing every day. Entering even one day later required a much larger amount of capital, so the losses would only be greater.
The gap was no different from falling off a cliff. How could citizens who had still been dreaming of getting