Over the next few days, people continued investigating Carter Corp, uncovering more important details about the company’s growing network of businesses.Carter's Jewels in Slatfield and Autumn Grove in Dand were both owned by Carter Corp, but there was a significant distinction between the ownership and main operations in both companies.Both companies had their own management structures and appeared to be operating separately from Carter Corp's central corporate activities.The people running Autumn Grove continued handling Autumn Grove's operations in Dand, while Carter's Jewels continued operating independently within Slatfield under its own management.Carter Corp was therefore the owner connecting the businesses together, but that ownership clearly didn't mean that the individual companies had been stripped of their existing operational structures, if any.To outsiders, this made Carter Corp look even more unusual, because it appeared to posse

The results of Calvin’s meeting with Governor Omar made themselves evident within just a few days.First of all, the governor had the state's Department of Transportation, which regulated commercial distribution within the state, begin an official investigation into Mechtronics.Because Mechtronics handled automotive and electronics distribution, the local transit authority held the licenses for several of the company's distribution hubs, and Omar, being the governor, had the authority to order audits of those licenses and, where necessary, revoke them, which would naturally have an effect on the company's operations and stock value.The sudden collapse in Mechtronics' stock price was then formally explained as a reaction from several shareholders who had been tipped off beforehand about the same information that had led the Financial Crimes Commission to investigate one of the company's board members, with Ashley's orchestration of the initial share dump being concealed behind that ex

Being known as the city with the highest population within this Southern region of the Edgard country, Flilton City was naturally filled with a high concentration of Elementalist guilds.The city sat upon the highest point of the plateau that the entire state occupied, and its elevation wasn't the only thing that was ‘high’ about it.The concentration of ambient elemental energy throughout the city was also fairly high.It was high enough that the city had certain locations where elemental energy would condense sufficiently to generate naturally occurring elemental phenomena, and as Calvin and Ashley's designated car drove through the city, they witnessed one such phenomenon.Wind elemental energy had condensed enough to form a small whirlwind on the sidewalk of a nearby street, although the whirlwind barely lasted ten seconds before a passing Elementalist used their own power to disperse the elemental energy and make the whirlwind disappear.The Elementalist then continued toward his

The man left to go after his partner after a brief farewell, and Calvin looked towards Ashley, who lightly stretched her arms before throwing up a fist.“Exploration, start!” she shouted, earning a soft sigh from Calvin.Like so, the two of them headed down to the city below.The Light Knights they encountered were all exactly as the man had described, fully armoured humanoids wielding swords, spears, bows, and arrows, with every weapon and piece of armour made entirely from Light elemental energy.They were made from energy that had been condensed enough to possess physical mass, which made their bodies relatively sturdy and capable of withstanding a considerable amount of physical damage.The moment they spotted the first one, Ashley decided to conduct a little durability test of her own, beginning by cracking open the ground directly underneath its feet.Once the Light Knight fell into the opening up to its waist, Ashley seale