Three minutes earlier, on Dream Island.
A Lan was making his routine check of the trade plugin information in the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce group chat.
It recorded the course of every transaction in detail and could also display shipment statuses in real time.
For every shipment successfully delivered, the Player responsible for transporting it would click "Successfully delivered," which would then appear in the plugin information.
After the Mingwu Race and the Ascension Race fell, the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce lost its two largest trading partners.
Although trade revenue had declined, it was not enough to affect the Chamber of Commerce's development.
They had secured a major client in Shuyan.
But unlike the Mingwu Race and the Ascension Race, Shuyan mainly spent his war resources on items, weapons, and equipment-gear that could strengthen the settings of his story systems through external means.
His demand for the various "high-profit potions" was zero.
Every character within the story systems could quickly recover by being infused with Ink Power.
Potions did have their uses, but Shuyan had surely calculated their value against the amount of Ink Power consumed in recovery.
His conclusion was that they were not cost-effective.
After all, the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce's external prices started at ten thousand times the shop prices.
Although A Lan felt helpless about this, he had never considered lowering prices.
Aside from Shuyan, potion customers included the other races of all sizes in the sea, as well as other clients who would establish contact with the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce in the future.
Only by maintaining these prices could they bring the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce sustained, enormous profits.
After checking the trade information, A Lan opened his friend request list.
As the person in charge of the Chamber