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Chapter 1499 The Rise of the Chaebol

The Glaucus Group is a chaebol with a history of more than 50 years. It is a typical family inheritance chaebol that originated from the territory of the Third Kingdom.

So far, he has completed five changes from the first generation entrepreneur to the current group leader, and is currently headquartered in the Aarhus territory in the Giant Kingdom Alliance.

Although 50 years seems like a long time, it is still relatively young among the chaebols. It was lucky enough to catch the last smooth sailing days of the chaebols before the appearance of the "Hermes Traveling Hat".

The Glaucus Group had witnessed the glory of the chaebols during the Dark Ages, and had seen the chaebols manipulating huge empires like puppets. Of course, they had also seen how these chaebols were kicked to death.

In the impact from the [Hermes's Brigade Hat], a large number of young chaebols such as the Glaucus Group died, and most of them were broken up by the [Hermes's Brigade Hat] or swallowed up by other chaebols.

As one of the surviving chaebols, the Glaucus Group is also one of the chaebols that is lurking, waiting for the [Hermes's Traveling Hat] to show a flaw.

In several world-class crises, [Hermes' Traveling Hat] successfully seized the opportunity, like a small boat in the stormy waves, surviving the crisis at the risk of its life and finally making a huge profit.

This made the current leader of the Glaucus Group, Eugene Glaucus, quite frightened. In his opinion, the [Hermes Traveling Hat] was like a destiny bestowed upon him, with infinite good fortune, and no matter what crisis it encountered, it would be able to overcome the danger in the end.

But the ship still capsized, the luck ran out, and the fate of [Hermes's Traveling Hat] came to an end.

During the crisis against the Tree of Life invasion, most of the vital transmission tower network was destroyed.

[Hermes' Travel Hat] is a huge giant, whose body covers almost every corner of the world, and the transmission tower network is the nerves that transmit its commands and the blood vessels that transport nutrients, allowing this huge giant to feel the state of his body at all times and keep his entire body healthy.

[Hermes' Industry] is extremely huge, and the reason why he can take care of it, get the content of each industry at the first time, give timely feedback, replenish goods or adjust operations is because of the transmission tower network.

Now that the teleportation tower network is destroyed, [Hermes's Travel Hat] is a piece of fat meat, and the only ones who can chew on this piece of fat meat are those who have been prepared.

Eugene Glaucus was very sure that their group was a well-prepared beast that had sharpened its claws and fangs long ago, and that the group would take this opportunity to bite off a piece of meat.

On the first day after the Anti-Tree of Life Crisis ended, Eugene Glaucus began his counterattack plan.

The first thing was to quietly use all the [Ika Black Stones] collected over the past 20 years to build teleportation towers, and first complete the teleportation tower network belonging to the Glaucus Group in the Ohuse area.

After that, he used the huge amount of funds that the Glaucus Group had accumulated for fifty years to purchase the goods from all the shops under the Hermes Travel Hat in the entire Aarhus territory, and then took over, opened his own shop, and put the goods on the shelves.

This plan seems very stupid. By helping [Hermes's Traveling Hat] to clear out all the goods at my own expense, isn't that actually helping [Hermes's Traveling Hat] in return?

But stupid methods are sometimes the best and most practical methods.

The territory of Aarhus was unfortunately destroyed during the Anti-Tree of Life Crisis, where all the transmission towers were destroyed. Communication can still be done by messenger birds, but the transportation of goods can only be done through long trade routes.

The territory of Aarhus is very large. If [Hermes's Traveling Hat] wants to replenish supplies to all the shops in the entire Aarhus territory, even with the fast-walking ostrich, even if the entire Aarhus territory is replenished at the same time, it will take at least ten days or half a month. If there are bandits and robbers in the middle, it may take two or three months.

No, as soon as [Hermes's Traveling Hat] starts to replenish its goods, it will be attacked by [Bandits].

This means that for at least two or three months, there will be no goods in the store of Hermes' Traveling Hat in the Aarhus territory, and their Glaucus Group will take its place.

Humans are creatures of habit. Once they get used to shopping in a store, they will hardly look at another store. Stores that have no goods for a long time are destined to be eliminated.

Of course, if only their Glaucus Group was gnawing at the meat of [Hermes's Traveling Hat], they would be crushed very quickly with their size. But unfortunately, the chaebols of the Dark Ages were watching in the dark, and this time the gnawing came from all directions.

[Hermes's Travel Hat] will be overwhelmed.

The most fatal blow will be the Ica Black Stones collected by various hidden tycoons in the past twenty years.

When [Hermes's Traveling Hat] rose to power with the help of the teleportation tower network, the major chaebols certainly would not sit idly by and watch. If they could not stop it, they could only do the same thing, constantly hoarding [Ika Black Stone] and waiting for the opportunity to replace it.

The Glaucus Group is just a young tycoon, and the [Ika Black Stone] they have stockpiled is only enough to build a network of transmission towers covering the territory of Ohuse.

But this is enough. If you stretch your hand too far, you will become a target like the [Hermes's Traveling Hat].

The surviving chaebols have a tacit understanding in the parties of all sizes over the past twenty years, that is, to return to the past where they can fight each other, but they must strike a balance in dividing up the world economy, only in this way can they maximize their interests.

Eugene Glaucus took a deep breath and, as the leader of the group, personally opened the storefront of a shop and announced the opening of the new store.

Although it is just a small shop, he still feels a little sad and touched when he thinks about it.

Even though the group was once a young chaebol, it still had countless shops and businesses, but under the monopoly of [Hermes's Traveling Hat], shops closed down one after another and business declined. This small shop was the first shop to reopen in twenty years.

"This is an opportunity God has given us. We must seize it no matter what!" As the leader of the group, Eugene Glaucus encouraged his subordinates whom he had supported for more than 20 years.

"Now, only our Glaucus Group has goods to sell in the Ohusian territory. In other words, we can sell them at any price we want. Our wealth will continue to flow thanks to our monopoly!"

"Don't worry about them not buying. If they want to buy goods outside of Ohuse territory, they have to use the teleportation tower we built. Using the teleportation tower is not free!"

Eugene Glaucus threw his arms wide and laughed.

"Ding-dong-"

The door of the new shop opened and a man wearing a straw hat and a vest walked in.

The man was shocked after taking a look at the prices of the goods on the shelf.

“Why is it so expensive?”

This sentence immediately triggered Eugene Glaucus's nerves. He recalled the Glaucus tycoon's arbitrary price hikes 20 years ago, and the common people dared not speak out in anger.

"This is the price starting today!" Eugene Glaucus raised his chin towards the man, and a Blessed One who was in charge of the situation whispered in his ear.

His expression became more arrogant.

He is just a Level 25 stranger named [Farmer's trumpet, in the process of pioneering].

(End of this chapter)