Chapter 29: The Engineered Collapse
Subheading: "When the world fell, you were already standing on top of it."
I. The Spark: A Designed Disaster
You'd built the illusion of freedom.
Now, it was time to break it.
With a single directive through your System:
Initiate: Simulated Crash Protocol
Parameters:
– Overvalue key resource sectors
– Delay fiscal reports for conglomerate subsidiaries
– Trigger algorithmic panic-selling
– Leak false royal treasury reports in three key kingdoms
Within hours:
Stock markets plummeted
Investor confidence vanished
Currency confidence faltered
Noble families rushed to liquidate
Nations too reliant on your currency… imploded
But while others panicked, you were waiting with coffers open.
II. Buying the World at Fire-Sale Prices
You watched governments fall like dominoes:
🏴 The Kingdom of Ospenfall
Treasury defaulted
Nobility fled
You bought their entire infrastructure, from roads to air docks
Renamed it: Sovereign Sector 12-A
🐉 The Mage-Duchies of Varenthia
Magical debt collapsed
Arcane guilds auctioned spell-patents
You acquired them through dummy buyers
Merged their territory under the Unified Arcana Division
🛡️ The Iron Confederacy
Border tensions triggered total collapse
Their steelworks, shipyards, and mercenary contracts sold at 2% value
You bought everything with pre-crash paper currency
Rebranded it: Iron Holdings Corp.
In all, 12 sovereign countries were absorbed, their borders erased, replaced by corporate districts under your control.
III. The Merger of Nations
You didn't just buy them. You merged them.
One by one, you:
Eliminated redundant institutions
Folded military command into your security firm
Assigned regional governors trained in your system
Rebranded their flags, languages, and laws into corporate subsidiaries
Now, people didn't live in nations.
They lived in districts of your conglomerate empire.
And they welcomed it — because you restabilized the economy and provided jobs, food, and security… after the crash you caused.
IV. System Upgrade: Continental Takeover Protocol
✅ "Panic Acquisition" Complete
✅ Market Influence Level: MAX
✅ New System Feature:
– "Sovereign Market Override" — use market position to absorb entire governments into your conglomerate
– Gain:
– Resource extraction rights
– Citizenship conversion tools
– History rewrite permissions
New Title Unlocked: Overworld Executive