Kasser continued his speech with a serious and solemn expression on his face
"What will happen in the upcoming conflict is very clear and expected"
"Simply put, if we do not join any of the competing parties, we will be targeted for fear of joining other parties at a crucial moment and tipping the scales of the conflict or even influencing it"
"And if we join a party that loses the competition later, it can be said that our business will be destroyed and we will suffer greatly and lose our institution and fall far below our current level and perhaps we will never be able to recover after that or it may take us decades for that"
Many of the attendees in the hall swallowed their saliva after Kasser's speech and then grabbed the documents in their hands tightly and stared at them with much greater concentration than before and began examining their contents carefully
'Eeeeh, it seems that the competition started a little faster than I expected and from what was circulated about it in my previous life'
Amon did not find what was happening in front of him and the subject that Kasser was talking about abnormal or strange, in fact he thought that Kasser had greatly underestimated its importance
He had previously He lived and witnessed its effects, which went beyond a mere commercial conflict and hidden competition to real conflicts on a large scale, assassinations, kidnappings and exaggerated blackmail that almost led to the fall of many governments and kingdoms that did not prepare themselves well for the conflict and did not anticipate its subsequent effects and how far it would go.
The emergence of new companies, the expansion of companies that were simple and unknown, the fall of giant companies, corporate alliances, betrayals, assassinations and mini-wars to control the markets.
All this began three years before the game was released, and it can be considered that the coming year will be the first and quietest years of this conflict compared to the coming years, as everyone will believe that it is just a normal commercial conflict in a transitional phase and will calm down after the competition stabilizes and the new division of the markets appears.
But unfortunately, their ideas were very wrong and far from accurate, and after this year, the competition and conflict will not stop, but will intensify, especially in the second year of it, where even the official authorities were unable to do anything to stop it, and it did not end and stop except due to the intervention of the controllers and their control over the situation, which they saw as starting to get out of control to the point that they might lose their grip on it and it would become harmful. For their actions
They intervened and ended it in a stealthy, quick and cold manner according to their whims and without caring about any outside opinions or ideas about resolving the conflict and crushed any opposition that appeared and seemed unconvinced by their decisions by force and then took over its actions
Although this was their first direct intervention, the world remained unaware of their presence as they acted as official forces seeking to restore calm and bring peace back to people's lives
But once they took over some businesses that they had not cared about before, they realized, but perhaps a little too late, that there were many forces that had already benefited from the presence of mana on Earth without realizing how it worked and only due to some special circumstances and luck.
This development had begun a long time ago and many new organizations had emerged that even the Dominators realized that if they acted rashly, direct conflict with them might cost them a lot of losses that they were not prepared to bear at this stage.
All this resulted from their failure to anticipate this development in events and their failure to restrict these businesses before they and the organizations behind them matured, and thus they almost lost their control that had lasted for centuries on Earth.
The Dominators changed their approach and method of work immediately after they finished this great subjugation and ended the fierce economic competition that swept the world and almost caused a war more fierce than the Fourth World War that would have broken out a few years ago.
They came out of their isolation that they had imposed on themselves and their businesses and began seriously examining the institutions on Earth and their progress and whether or not it was linked to mana and how it happened. Then they took over everything they found useful or destroyed it if they could not. Because of this and after the progress they had already made being aware of what was happening in the world, they were able to harvest many new techniques, technologies and ideas that were better than what they had come up with in many aspects and thus they achieved unprecedented progress in their work that led them to increase their focus on this endeavor and exploit the human forces present on Earth and benefit from them more, which was simple for them due to their foundations, strength and the authority they had