Emmanuel Crossford, or simply Manny, is probably the richest man alive in Last Bastion.
It is his genius that allowed him to discover how to use Mana Crystals in conjunction with modern technology to increase their performance. Through his work, many technological breakthroughs occurred, increasing Humanity's quality of life.
His inventions had brought him so much money that he has enough to last for lifetimes. Yet, he's still far from satisfied.
There is much left to be desired in the current era's technology. And he believed that the first step to making everything possible is by figuring out how to make them work outside of the Last Bastion first.
That being said, doing that proved much harder than anybody could've guessed. Even Manny couldn't figure out what exactly is that's preventing them from crossing this threshold.
