Of Course They Needed Land

More and more capital poured into Steel Futures. Nearly all of the enormous sums they had borrowed were thrown into it.

The madness of the market lay in the fact that a whole crowd of lunatics mortgaged all their assets for cash, then went everywhere with piles of money looking for steel, looking for Steel Futures.

Their funds seemed inexhaustible, their enthusiasm flowing endlessly into it, and the price of Steel Futures quietly doubled again.

Before they began borrowing like mad, this sort of upward trend had only appeared at the very beginning.

Even Nidhogg, the Destruction Black Dragon, found it hard to imagine what these people were planning.

But the people trading Steel Futures had long since gone mad.

In truth, it was no wonder. The money they had obtained by mortgaging vast amounts of land and other assets had been intended for Steel Futures from the start.

And even if they no longer wanted to buy Steel Futures, they had no choice.

With so much money, what else could they buy besides Steel Futures?

And they still had interest to repay.

The only path was to keep purchasing Steel Futures.

It was not as though they could gamble in the stock market, was it?

The most absurd thing about the Steel Futures market now was that the overwhelming majority were buying frantically, while practically no one was selling.

At first, when their Steel Futures contracts were close to expiration, they would still consider selling.

Now, they simply refused to sell and directly kept the physical steel in their hands.

Of course, they were not literally holding it in their hands!

They would sign an agreement with Foster Mining Company, pay Foster Mining Company a small fee, and have it store the steel for them temporarily.

In their minds,