The Tension Increases

For companies that were as active in the universal government's market as the ones that formed the conglomerates, a hundred, a thousand, or even ten thousand essence gems were not of much value. However, that was not necessarily true for the cultivators in it. After all, most of the funds of a company were kept for business purposes, and each conglomerate had to nurture millions, if not tens of millions of cultivators at the same time.

What had shocked Gannet and the others, was not the amount of essence gems they had received, but the amount that each of the top five cultivators would receive. Such an amount could be compared to what high-end companies made in a year, and was generally much more than a single cultivator would consume in their life.

Naturally, the looks of greed and envy did not stay for long on the faces of these thousands of cultivator, who instead of following Gannet into the tunnel, waited for Nilo and the others to walk in.