In his previous life, he would never be granted an investment expert but he knew how to search through everything to find an answer.

And Alpha Financial's strategy left him shocked.

First, they would acc.u.mulate enough expansion capital in secret and as they are a private company their accounting books were secret. So diverting some funds was not a problem or at least n.o.body would tell them anything about it.

Second, they would make their company public by throwing it into the stock market and after that, the compet.i.tion would make fake news about Ceo to make it less desirable to buy the shares of Alpha financial this added to the fact of the "lousy" accounting books.

This will make no professional or amateur investor want to buy their shares.

The latter was Alexander's a.s.sumption but he thought that all the money diverted would go to a company owned by Reason and with which he would buy his own shares.

Finishing his scheme of more than twenty years and keeping the company owned by him.

It was legal, but it was also a dirty game.

Right now Alpha financial's compet.i.tors think that the company is weaker than ever but actually behind that weakness. The company was stronger than ever.

Alexander suspected that the only truth Reason told was "100 countries in 20 years" and if this was true there would only be one way to do it.

The company will from time to time issue more shares that would be bought by Reason until it achieves the capital of 240 billion saved within 20 years.

This was only the first issue of Shares. Alexander was not sure about much but he was sure that Alpha financial in 20 years would be worth at least 500 billion eighth grade spiritual stones.

It had been three months since the announcement that they had gone public and two months since the interview with Reason. So there were nine months left until the shares were officially issued.

As far as I knew the shares of the Cropening Empire stock exchange are issued in only one currency and that was Eighth-grade spiritual stones as they were from the strongest countries in the area with numerous Eighth-grade mines.

It could be said that eighth-grade stones were relatively common there and that spirit Realm experts were much more common than in other countries in the area.

Comparison of Cropening Empire the Uri republic was the same as a remote village. Since in this republic the only ones who had access to spiritual stones were the governing powers and even if they did, they would only be ninth grade spiritual stones.

Alexander suspected that there was not a single Spirit Realm expert in this country.

If he wanted to get spiritual stones in an easy and unregulated way he would have to go to a stronger country but now he only needed Gold. In addition to the fact that if he wanted to go to a country of medium strength it would take several years to reach his current speed, After all, a mortal country was much bigger than a northern state and not to mention a kingdom like the Alba Kingdom.

The density of Qi in the Uri Republic was 4 times greater than the Alba Kingdom and much purer than in the latter.

Because of this Qi gathering, experts were very common here, not to mention the elementary experts. Definitely the better the environment the greater the number of experts in the area.

Now what Alexander wanted most was Mana crystals and in this city only four places where to get these crystals.

The guild of Alchemists, The guild of Array masters, The guild of blacksmiths and The Guild of Artisans.

But for them to sell you these crystals you would have to be at least an apprentice of this profession otherwise you don't dream of getting them.

Mana crystals were specially obtained through raids into dungeons by mercenaries or adventurers.

Dungeons were places with a high concentration of Mana and were formed when a demonic beast dies naturally.

To escape death the beast places its spirit in its core which creates a phenomenon that deforms reality by establishing a dungeon.

The beast within its nucleus could make its strength increase and absorbing the vitality of people fallen into the dungeon could one day reform its carnal body.

The stronger the beast that created the dungeon, the more "floors" it would have. There were dungeons that had hundreds of floors. These were all dungeons that were tens of thousands of years old.

Within these dungeons would be born creatures with manna crystals in his body in addition to that inside the dungeons were condensed crystals everywhere.

These were very unique places and for people who could not generate their own manna were great treasures that had innumerable uses so they could even be more valuable than spiritual stones.

Just as spiritual stones were divided into nine grades.

In the case of alchemists, A crystal of manna will serve to make more than a hundred rounds of refining pills of your level.

That is, 1 crystal of manna could be used to refine one hundred rounds of pills or potions of a star. The energy to refine pills of higher levels is multiplied and would make those crystals useless.

The Cauldron Alexander made has five compartments for crystals inside it so you won't need to change the crystals until after 500 rounds of refining regardless of whether they are failures or successes.

In the case of the blacksmiths and craftsmen, it was similar reaching the refining of one hundred pieces or weapons of the same degree of difficulty.

The Array master used these mana crystals to reinforce the Array making them more durable and avoiding many maintenance rounds.

All professions have their uses for these crystals.

Alexander thought of going to the Adventurers Guild to place a mission but soon remembered that the guilds, Big Companies and Big Powers will have priority in the purchase of crystals.

In the Uri republic, there must be a limited number of dungeons so whoever has the crystals must be very well regulated.

So now he had only one option: to take the alchemist's apprentice exam.

He could take the artisan apprentice and Array master exam but those exams took longer than the alchemy exams.

First set up your communicator and then you would go to the guild.