Dig Up Your Roots Directly

An atmosphere of despair spread madly across every corner of the continent.

Nearly all the nobles were swept up in it.

Close to 2.5 billion gold coins had been poured in, and now all of it was trapped. They felt that they might truly be unable to recover even a single gold coin.

Emotions were contagious.

Despair even more so.

When all of them were caught in the same atmosphere and the same predicament, their emotions were even more easily affected.

Compared to those nobles, however, the middle class and ordinary people watched it all as entertainment. By the time they had learned of Steel Futures, its price had already risen beyond what they could afford to play with.

Even if someone had invested and lost only a few gold coins, getting to watch countless nobles nearly go bankrupt made it all the more entertaining.

When it rained, it poured.

Just as those nobles had fallen into despair, the Destruction Black Dragon Nidhogg suddenly made his move.

The Great Dragon Bank suddenly issued an announcement: [The Great Dragon Bank possesses too much land and has decided to lease it out in large quantities. The land rent across the continent will be uniformly set at 10% of the harvest. Starting today, data on lands belonging to the Great Dragon Bank will be updated on the Magic Net one after another. Please stay informed.]

The moment this news came out, it caused an enormous uproar.

The nobles, who had already fallen into despair, became even more desperate.

It even felt as though the sky had collapsed.

The Great Dragon Bank had actually decided to lease out its land at a time like this. What did that mean?

Had they already determined that the nobles would be unable to pay?

Although it seemed