Kasser continued speaking with a serious and solemn expression on his face
" What will happen in the coming conflict is very clear and predictable "
" Simply if we do not join any of the competing parties , we will be targeted for fear that we will join other parties at a crucial moment and tip the scales of the conflict or even influence it "
" And if we join a party that loses the competition later , then it can be said that our business will be destroyed , we will suffer greatly , lose our institution, fall from our current level significantly , and we may never be able to recover after that or it may take us decades to do so "
Many of the audience in the hall swallowed their saliva after Kasder's words , then they gripped the documents in their hands tightly , stared at them with much greater concentration than before , and began to carefully examine their contents
' Eh, it seems that the competition started a little faster than I expected and from what was reported about it in my previous life '
Amon did not find what was happening in front of him and the topic that Kasser was talking about unnatural or strange . In fact , he thought that Kasser had greatly underestimated its importance
He had previously lived through it and witnessed its effects , which emerged from a mere struggle of interests and hidden competition to a real conflicts on a large scale and exaggerated assassinations , kidnappings and blackmail operations that almost led to the downfall of many governments and kingdoms that did not prepare themselves for the conflict well and did not expect its after effects and how far it would reach
The emergence of new companies , the expansion of companies that were simple and unknown , the fall of giant companies , alliances of companies , betrayals , assassinations , and mini-wars to control markets , resources and secrets
All of this happened in the first three years of the great technological development , and it can be considered that this year will be its first and calmest year compared to the next , as everyone will think that it is just a natural commercial conflict in a transformational stage , and it will calm down after the competition stabilizes and the new division of markets appears
But unfortunately , their ideas were very wrong and far from accurate , and after this year the competition and the conflict did not stop , but rather intensified , especially in the second year of it , as even the official authorities could not do anything to stop it , and it did not end and stop except due to the intervention of the Dominators and their control over the situation when they saw it getting out of their hands so that they may lose their grip on it and it may become harmful to their business
That is why they intervened and ended it in a hidden , quick , and cold manner according to their whims , without caring for any external opinions or ideas about resolving the conflict . They destroyed any opposition that appeared and seemed unconvinced by their decisions by force , and then they took control of their properties
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 once again to people's lives
But once they acquired some works that they had never cared about their existence before , they unfortunately realized , perhaps a little too late , that there were many powers that had actually benefited from the presence of mana in the world without realizing how it worked , and just because of some special circumstances and luck , they had evolved until the existance of some new forcesbe had came a danger for them and if they acting ill-considered and making a direct conflict with them may cost them many losses
All of this resulted from their failure to anticipate this development of events and their failure to restrict these actions and the organizations behind them before they matured . Thus , they almost lost their control that had lasted for centuries on Earth
Therefore , the rulers changed their approach and method of work immediately as soon as 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 before the appearance of mana
They came out of their self-imposed isolation and began seriously examining the institutions on Earth and their progress and whether or not it was linked to mana and how this happened , seizing everything they found useful to them or destroying it if they were not able to do so
Because of this , and after the progress they had already made , being aware of what was happening in the world and even having the ability to enter the game and the new world , they were able to harvest many new techniques , technologies and ideas that were better than what they had achieved in certain aspects . Thus they achieved an unprecedented progress in their works , which led them to increase their focus on this endeavor and exploit the human resources present on the ground and benefit from them to a greater extent , which was a simple matter for them given their foundations , strength , and the authority that they have