Hades had always kept a close eye on the kingdom's development.
Its industries were thriving, and vast quantities of goods were sold across the world, bringing in enormous profits every year.
Kronos Kingdom also used various means to squeeze out commercial rivals and dominate entire markets, taking a share of the low-, mid-, and high-end segments alike.
Kronos Kingdom was undeniably greedy.
Many companies across the seas appeared to have no connection to Kronos Kingdom, but the kingdom secretly held substantial stakes in them.
On these lawless seas, strength was everything, and Kronos Kingdom had strength to spare.
So why shouldn't it come out the biggest winner?
It already had a vast number of Scientists driving the development of its industries.
Few could compete with Kronos Kingdom's products, especially in the mid- and high-end markets.
At this rate, Kronos Kingdom could sustain its rapid growth for a long time.
Under the development strategy Hades had laid down,
downstream industries were gradually moved to other Islands across Kronos Kingdom's vast Sea Area.
This promoted local development and gave the people there work.
But what concerned Hades most was agriculture.
After all, Kronos Kingdom was developing so quickly, and its population kept growing. Paros Island alone consumed an untold amount of food every year.
Then there were the ingredients bought from around the world and shipped in.
The amount of food Kronos Kingdom needed each year only kept rising.
The hundreds of thousands of students at the Royal Military Academy were major consumers of food too.
The military went without saying.
What was more, Kronos Kingdom's soldiers were powerful on average.
Naturally, they needed more energy.
Kronos Kingdom's population had now reached 250 million.
Beyond its natural population growth, people from across the seas, throughout the New World, and even from all