"Monopoly?" Ryuzio replied to Joysaleen, throwing his jacket to the side as Arold tinkered with his mechanical bow under the sunrays shooting diagonally on the grassy land from the shattered gap on the ceiling. "Doesn't sound tasty at all."
"I told you it's not food!" Joysaleen said with frustration. "Imagine if I was the only seller of breads and buns in the market. Do you think the price of bunmeats would've been the same? Negative! The one who owns the resources gets to name the prices!
"Lexnal's plan was to blow up these mines after getting enough for his underworld trades, intentionally causing an accident that killed all the trapped miners, making lucentum mining seem even more dangerous in the process. That would've gained him a monopoly over the underworld market of the energy resources—Lucetums, skyshards, gemspheres, gemslugs."
