Chapter 1306 - 626: Three Major Demigod Ceremonies, Sudden Encounter with Night Demon Joan (Part 2)

It is a unified whole that is closer than an ordinary person’s hands, feet, eyes, ears, and even brain, with no possibility of rebellion and no worry of overshadowing the ruler.

While Byron was watching two queens busy at their work, seven incarnations and the main body suddenly experienced a moment of disorientation and immediately returned to normal.

"Hmm? What’s happening?"

In that moment, he felt as if his consciousness suddenly had a ninth interactive subject originating from the same source.

Its essence was the same, with full compatibility, yet seemed both alike and different from his main body or incarnations.

Unfortunately, that feeling was fleeting, disappearing as he tried to pursue it.

Byron was still unaware that Raven Fukin had just brushed past the activated knowledge within the "Pirate Code."

"Unity of All Things" had touched an existence on the ship.

But as the distance between the two exceeded the Raven’s perception limit, that ethereal connection also broke again.

However, as long as both sides are still on the battlefield, they are bound to have a second encounter sooner or later.

Byron did not become paranoid over the unusual feeling.

Putting the matter aside temporarily, he diligently poured two cups of honey red tea for the queens, saying casually:

"My and Violet’s main bodies need to break through the third circulation zone to return for the Sixth Order Demigod Promotion Ceremony.

But now our spirituality has increased to 24.3, and the main divine position has been determined, allowing us to prepare for the preliminary planning work in advance.

Covering the influence area of at least a continent is not something that can be accomplished quickly; it might take us several years of time."

Looking at Catherine:

"Sister, has the target for the world’s first financial crisis been determined?"

Catherine’s Silver Dragon incarnation took a sip of honey-added red tea and shook her head, troubled:

"Currently, there aren’t many countries with established financial systems globally.

Finding a suitable ’guinea pig’ to sharpen the ’Financial Holy Sword’ is not easy.

Excluding the Order of Impoverished Knights who have already joined us, I am still slowly selecting from the rest..."

Before she finished speaking, the communication signal of the law network beside her suddenly rang, with a male avatar popping up.

"Is it Hal Black? Didn’t I dispatch him back to the Netherland as a mole? How come he suddenly activated the emergency contact channel?"

All three recognized the other party.

Remit Banker Hal Black and some members of the Freemason Society dedicated to becoming World Nobles had long secretly joined them.

The Black brothers were transformed by Byron into Half-Night Demons and were assigned to Catherine, the Finance Queen of the Gold Sequence, under her direct leadership.

Catherine sent them to the Netherland Kingdom located on the southern coast of the North Sea.

Since the Great Nautical Age commenced, the Netherland has consistently been one of the primary destination ports for the return voyage of long-range fleets, with commerce, handicrafts, and finance developing vigorously.

It also attracted a large number of Remit bankers who originated from high-interest lending.

The elite class has long viewed the Netherland as one of their bases and has thoroughly controlled the area through various means.

Netherland United Bank, Monetary Restoration Party, and Freemason Society are all group-oriented products of the Remit Clan.

After they acquired the Netherland Kingdom, they not only actively engaged in finance and commercial activities but also initiated the rise of manufacturing industries like wool textile with a single hand, and colluded with the land nobles within Hightins.

After Byron stole the country, the land aristocracy in the country who initiated the "enclosure movement" was liquidated, but the Remit people of the Netherland were barely affected.

This time, while preparing their Sixth Order Promotion Ceremony, the Netherland and Southern Continent’s Monetary Restoration Party ranked as the top two target candidates.

Catherine effortlessly clicked on the avatar, and Hal Black, drenched in sweat, appeared before the trio.

Seeing both Byron and Violet, Hal Black hastily saluted and frantically said:

"Majesties, something terrible has happened!"

Without waiting for inquiry, he spilled everything he knew like beans poured out from a bamboo tube:

"Recently, the Empire’s various wool textile products and industrial goods launched a dumping campaign towards the continent’s nations, quickly devastating the Netherland Kingdom’s wool handicraft industry.

A large number of workshop owners united to push a resolution in the Netherland Parliament, planning to collaborate with international grain merchants to completely cut off the North Sea Empire’s grain supply by the end of July..."

Under Black’s narrative, a trap designed years ago emerged to the surface.

The ongoing enclosure movement over the years not only allowed the land nobles of Hightins to obtain land, wool, wealth, and status but also practically monopolized the Hightins’ grain market by Remit’s four major grain merchants.

If there is anything in this world that could seize massive profits, it would be illicit drugs and weapons.

If there is anything that could fundamentally control a nation and people, it would definitely be grain!

After Hightins converted a large number of arable land from farming to grazing, although it increased national fiscal revenue, it also relied entirely on imports for grain, putting its lifeline in the hands of the Remit people.

Especially in recent years with ongoing conflicts, the international grain prices have been soaring steadily.

Now many countries sell a standard Fur Bread for five Copper Furs, soon it might rise to fifty, or even five hundred Furs!

Once Hightins’ imports are blocked, the poor who already couldn’t afford bread might not even be able to eat potatoes.