300 Three-Star Energy Cards and 42 Four-Star Energy Cards! At 15,000 Odi apiece, 300 Three-Star Energy Cards came to 4.5 million Odi. Four-Star Energy Cards were far more expensive by comparison. Each contained 80,000 units of energy, yet sold for as much as 150,000 Odi-nearly two Odi per unit on average. The 42 Four-Star Energy Cards alone cost 6.3 million! In other words, Chen Mu needed 10.8 million Odi worth of Energy Cards. Buying them from Fatty would certainly be cheaper, but however he worked it out, he would still need seven or eight million.
He could afford seven or eight million. The crucial problem was that this was only one week's expenditure.
Skywing couldn't earn him seven or eight million Odi in a week.
There was indeed strength in numbers, and safety too, but expenses also shot straight up as the head count grew. If Chen Mu wanted to maintain this force of his, he would have to keep making money like mad. He was beginning to understand why only the big conglomerates could afford to cultivate forces of their own.
Building a force meant pouring in endless amounts of money. How many people did he even have? Twenty-only twenty-one with Lu Xiaoru included. Their routine expenses alone ran into millions a week, which would certainly mean twenty or thirty million a month. And over a year? Two or three hundred million!
Without his partnership with Fatty to produce the Digital Series Cards, Chen Mu doubted he would ever have had a chance to see such a huge sum in his lifetime. And this was only routine expenditure; recruitment costs were astronomical too.
Just think of those other Card Adept corps with hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of members. How much money must they cost?
Fortunately, he