God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 333: The First Trade

Seven days passed in the blink of an eye.

The stock exchange in the City of Gold had long been ready under the busy work of countless magicians and craftsmen.

At the same time, information about stocks was bombarding every Magic Net user like a violent storm on the Magic Net.

Over 10 million Magic Net users now, without exception, all knew about this.

Through their spreading, across the entire continent, possibly tens of millions of people knew about this.

Under such terrifying dissemination, the City of Gold was also bustling with voices.

Quite a few people who weren’t too far away, or people wealthy enough to have dragons transport them, gathered together in the City of Gold.

Even the night before the stock exchange opened, people started lining up at the stock exchange entrance.

Rumor had it that after the stock exchange officially started running, the Magic Net would launch an online trading platform. But who could guarantee that rumor was true?

Didn’t that require the god to want it to happen?

Besides, trading on the Magic Net yourself, unfamiliar with it—what if something went wrong?

Today was the first day. Anyone with any insight could figure out that the first batch of people buying stocks basically equaled picking up free money.

What was a little queue time?

If there was enough time, coming here from the northernmost part of the continent was no problem!

Eight thirty in the morning.

Several dragons appeared in the sky above the stock exchange and began circling but didn’t land.

Ten minutes later, a group of good-looking traders appeared nearby.

These people all wore uniforms, and each looked sharp and capable.

Under the management personnel’s direction, they queued up in an orderly fashion and entered the exchange.

These traders were all excellent employees of Dragon Bank.

To make the stock exchange run more perfectly, the dragons had pulled the most outstanding employees from various locations, put them together, and conducted training for a certain period of time, ensuring they’d mastered all the rules.

Nine o’clock sharp.

The stock exchange opened.

People in line surged in.

Though they knew it wouldn’t be long before this function spread on the Magic Net, to make things run more stably, the dragons had built the stock exchange with a large area that could support ten thousand people entering.

Once inside, everywhere were Roster territory’s star product—Magic Net projectors—displaying all kinds of data from companies that had successfully passed screening and gone public.

However, for actual trading, there were only 500 traders, meaning at most 500 people could trade at the same time.

But even so, it made everyone feel amazed.

Everything here was somewhat different from what they’d imagined.

Just the endless stream of Magic Conductors was overwhelming.

But people coming to make money reacted pretty quickly. They soon cast aside this information and focused on the most critical information.

"Golden Merchant Guild, 1 gold coin per share?! Roster Territory Group Company, also 1 gold coin per share?! Dragon Delivery, 10 gold coins per share!!! Dawn Southern Development Company..."

"Golden Merchant Guild, the continent’s number one merchant guild, possesses..."

Whether it was the initial stock subscription price or information about each company’s scale, costs, plans, profits, projected profits—everything was displayed in the stock exchange.

Most people hadn’t reacted yet when they discovered that on the projected information, Golden Merchant Guild stocks were starting to be frantically subscribed.

They were being traded tens of thousands of shares at a time.

The phrase "demand vastly exceeded supply" was perfectly demonstrated.

For this listing, the dwarf elf Labrechaun had put out a total of 1 million shares of the Golden Merchant Guild at 1 gold coin per share. It simply wasn’t enough for these nobles and merchants to divvy up.

The other few companies were about the same.

At first, some people were rationally analyzing, but watching the dwindling stocks, some people panicked and really just bought whatever they could, spending all the money they’d previously deposited at Dragon Bank, not leaving a single gold coin.

"It’s already sold out?!" 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

In the hall, quite a few people groaned in frustration and cursed their hesitation, only regretting they’d queued too slowly, only regretting they’d spaced out for too long just now. Such a good opportunity had been missed in an instant.

But while most people were anxious, naturally some who’d managed to purchase were overjoyed.

"I bought some!"

"Hahaha, bought a lot!"

"I spent all 700,000 of my gold coins, this is amazing!"

Waves of cheers came. For a moment, some major nobles and major merchants looked pretty unhappy.

In the crowd, not far from the traders, the Hunting Pope’s face no longer had the composure it had when trimming donkey hooves.

In the Magic Net video era, their Church of Hunting was practically the version’s answer. But when the live streaming era came, strangely, the effect just disappeared. Then in the live streaming sales era, they really didn’t have much to sell.

Now, each of them was more and more famous on the Magic Net, absolutely among the most competitive in this world. But watching others make money while they struggled to monetize—it was more painful than being killed.

This time, having finally seen an opportunity to make money, they’d rushed over immediately.

But who knew they still hadn’t managed to buy any.

"Don’t worry, it won’t be long before those who bought will start selling to others. Early on, quite a few of them will definitely be cautious and won’t dare raise prices much. We can just rush to buy that portion then."

The person accompanying the Hunting Pope was an archbishop from the Church of Hunting who managed finances, very skilled at lending and borrowing. After this business was snatched by Dragon Bank, he’d been anxious for quite a while, not knowing what to do. After discovering the stock exchange, he’d been studying it in depth.

Through his research, he’d basically understood the ins and outs.

Perhaps due to his position, in his view, buying at a slightly higher price was definitely no problem. Take the Golden Merchant Guild for example—even buying at 2 gold coins per share, after some time passed, trading it out would still be profitable.

Even if he didn’t trade it out, just holding Golden Merchant Guild stock and waiting for dividends was fine for the Church of Hunting.

As one of the top church forces, the Church of Hunting had been diligently lending for thousands of years—charging interest rates that could cripple debtors—plus operating various industries including the Hunters’ Association, giving them massive amounts of capital.

Even richer than some countries.

From their perspective, they weren’t afraid of investments not making money in the short term. As long as there was stable feedback, it was worth it.

Sure enough.

Not long after he said this, people started selling their stocks.

1.25 gold coins per share, selling Golden Merchant Guild stock?

What was there to hesitate about?

Immediately, a large batch of people frantically purchased.

Through News Bird Megan’s promotion, most people on site understood trading rules like listing orders and buying.