Super Spender - Chapter 727 - Chapter 727: Chapter 721: The Long Lost Zero

Chapter 727: Chapter 721: The Long Lost Zero

However, there was no other choice. With the Flame Nation’s official warning, the international gold futures market indeed fell sharply. According to the nation’s estimation, even though large scale gold deposits were not found in a short period of time and many components in the construction of ships like the Fireworks required the incorporation of expensive metals like gold, it was not challenging to find gold ore in space.

The price of gold is expected to fall by at least half, and possibly even drop to a third of what it is now. While it won’t be as cheap as common metals, a one-third drop in price might still be considered a bargain for many.

However, official warnings from banks and other institutions were effective. Upon hearing the warning, the majority promptly sold all their gold. In the following week, according to Flame Nation’s statistics, barring a few stubborn individuals, over ninety percent of the population had sold all their gold.

This ninety percent of gold added up to a total of nearly 7,000 tons. It was indeed a shocking amount and gave an insight into the scale of gold reserves in the Flame Nation, and admittedly, previous predictions which was around 30,000 tons were far from accurate.

Moreover, Flame Nation could only account for the gold purchases that were recorded. The tons of unaccounted gold inherited over history were not included. Many believed that a massive gold reserve was required to support the internationalization of the Flame Nation currency.

Now, the Flame Nation’s proclamation had directly led to nearly 10,000 tons of gold reserves pouring in, a fairly terrifying figure. This had sparked countless rumours claiming that the authorities were using this as an excuse to accumulate gold from the public to provide the last bit of support to Flame Nation currency’s internationalization.

While this rumor caught a lot of attention, it didn’t last long. The reason was simple: Finn Lewis provided a few coordinates and asked the Fireworks to scan them. The man in his middle ages then relayed this information to the Fireworks. Following the scan, a meteorite made almost entirely of gold appeared within the Fireworks’ scanning range.

It was indeed made purely of gold. The core’s purity was just as high as refined gold on Earth. On this meteorite, approximately 4.7 kilometers in size, large chunks of gold were visible on the surface.

According to preliminary calculations, this golden meteorite contained at least tens of millions of tons of gold. Capturing such a small asteroid wasn’t a difficult task. Its size was only marginally larger than the Fireworks. Breaking it up with cannon fire was an uncomplicated task.

Therefore, after obtaining the detailed data, the Flame Nation officials straightforwardly announced that they had found a golden meteorite with tens of millions of tons of gold. They provided massive amounts of data as evidence. Upon the release of this news, it sent shockwaves around the world.

The price of gold plummeted like a stone, despite Flame Nation simultaneously announcing that building ships like the Fireworks required huge amounts of gold. The gold prices kept falling nonetheless.

Since the Flame Nation officials easily discovered a gold meteorite, who could know how many more there were in the universe? Moreover, Flame Nation had recently been clandestinely offloading hundreds of tons of gold. This made the news even more credible.

Many people were selling gold frantically. It was only at this time that both Flame Nation and the middle-aged man discovered just how much gold the Flame Nation had. But this didn’t affect much, as those who could store gold were wealthy and didn’t have too much gold to begin with, other than some gold jewelry for the most part.

Before the emergence of new precious metals, most metals could no longer serve as precious metals. But it didn’t matter for the time being, as modern currency systems were not pegged to gold. Gold reserves were just for emergencies.

However, Finn Lewis didn’t have the time to deal with all these issues, or more accurately, he had a more pressing matter at hand: Zero had made an appearance and handed out a task to him.

Zero had not appeared ever since Finn Lewis returned to the Solar System. Though he could exchange and purchase items, Zero didn’t appear or give any instructions. For a while, Lewis thought that Zero had disappeared. However, since the item exchanges were still happening normally, it meant that Zero was still around.

However, in the nearly two years since his return, this was the first time Zero had assigned a task, and surprisingly, it turned out to be a baffling one for Lewis.

“Prosperity: A noble doesn’t only need to possess a noble temperament but also needs to establish a family and his own power. You’re still lacking a spouse. Please complete a formal wedding in the next three months that is recognized by your family, friends, relatives, and the world. Punishment for task failure: Immediate forfeiture of one past reward and the difficulty of future tasks will be tripled. Task completion reward: 100 million points, one Resource Galaxy, and one long-distance fixed jump gate.”

The difficulty and the tenure reward of Zero’s task is unbalanced. Finn was puzzled as to what it meant by rewarding a Resource Galaxy. Was it implying that it could actually award him an entire galaxy? But if it was in the Milky Way, who knew if it fell within another family’s territory.

If it wasn’t in the Milky Way, not even the Galactic Federation had the means to exit the Milky Way, let alone Finn Lewis. To travel to the Andromeda Galaxy, the closest galaxy to the Milky Way, one needed to traverse a distance of approximately 2.2 million light-years which was expansive in relation to the diameter of the Milky Way, it was merely over a hundred thousand light-years. The vast distance between the two galaxies was indeed the biggest obstacle to intergalactic travel.

Thus, Lewis had no idea about his reward. But undoubtedly, this Resource Galaxy was an extraordinary reward. Most planets in the universe contain mineral reserves. With the contemporary mining technology and the Galactic Federation’s advanced mining methods, mining wasn’t a complex issue.