"Golden City suddenly got bigger? And then a Futures Market appeared out of thin air?"
"Is that real? Could this be a miracle of the Technology God?"
"If you said it was a miracle of industrial engineering, I'd believe you. Since when did the Technology God's miracles become like this?"
"Who else could it be besides the Technology God? Dragons don't have faith."
"The Magic Net just updated with new features, and this building appeared out of nowhere. It definitely has something to do with the Technology God."
"I originally thought the dragons had already made their move and were just holding back some big surprise without telling us. I even thought the people of Golden City must have seen the extra building long ago, yet didn't post a single bit of news online. That would've been seriously disloyal. I never expected they had only just found out too."
"But the update announcement said this feature was developed jointly with the dragons."
"Having the dragons implement it still counts as working jointly with them, doesn't it?"
"What I want to know now is how this Futures Market is supposed to work. I still don't really understand it."
"Futures, futures—they're orders for commodities. You use the current price to bet on the future price. If the current price is higher than the future price, you lose. If the current price is lower than the future price, you earn. Then, before delivery, everyone can trade those orders with each other. But when they expire, if you're still holding the order, you have to take the goods."
"This feels more complicated than stock trading and bond trading."
"..."
The Futures Market had originally received the least attention among the three features. After all, the first and second features had an enormous impact. It