Just like the company's gains and losses, they were as insignificant as a grain of sand in the desert before the true Wall of Preservation.
Perhaps—
The company's greatest problem was that it had put the cart before the horse.
Preservation should have been the company's foremost pursuit.
Wealth was secondary.
"...Miss Topaz, please return. Take your friends back with you."
The foxian woman said this, but Topaz merely shook her head.
"My companions can just be settled somewhere if there aren't too many issues."
"The Cornerstone's power is still active. They'll wake up soon."
"You don't intend to return?"
Those words brought a trace of surprise to the foxian woman's face.
Topaz shook her head at that, her eyes filled with reverence for another order.
"I am going to visit the Xianzhou."
And just as Topaz was preparing to visit the Xianzhou,
a pitch-black wolf was silently releasing spores, breaking down the meteors it encountered along the way while extracting biological star systems to replenish the energy expended on putting on his act.
Unlike a proper Emanator, his power genuinely came from himself. It hurt quite a bit whenever he had to fight.
At the scale of an Emanator battle, a single fight would require at least a moon's worth of fusion energy converted into electricity, then stored as mana...
It was pure self-employment.
"Life as a counterfeit is really tough."
While using a high-powered clairvoyance device to observe the scene aboard a small craft, Russell logged into the chat group and spoke with the assembled Ghost Employee Squad.
"The Strategic Investment Department of the company is inviting me."
"Looks like I can apply to make Douzhizhu the Chief Police Dog Governor of the seafood market later, with official Beast-level benefits."
Russell mentioned Huihui's pet cat.