Super Spender

Chapter 798: Chapter 793: Confrontation_1

“Look into it.” After all the data had been copied over, Suleiman Cooper directly addressed his butler.

“Yes, Your Highness, I have already directed people to investigate. If it turns out that a family sold it, that would be the best excuse,” the butler immediately replied.

“Report this matter to the Surveillance Bureau.” Suleiman thought for a moment before speaking decisively.

“I understand, Your Highness.”

The atmosphere in the school seemed to have returned to calm, but all the students felt the tension of an impending storm, the cause of which was the affair of the Mike Family. At first, everyone scoffed at Finn Lewis, but then, when the Mike Family’s stock was destroyed and it appeared likely that the Aitken Family would not be able to deliver the goods, and their failure to deliver meant that Finn Lewis might receive over two hundred billion in compensation.

This meant, even if the Aitken Family was sold off, it would only fetch that price.

Subsequent rumors suggested that the space pirates who annihilated the Aitken Family and extorted them had three level one warships. What did this mean? These students weren’t fools, damn it. They knew that even the famously powerful three major pirate groups didn’t possess level one warships, even though they had many ships.

But now, space pirates had level one warships; wasn’t that nonsense? This definitely meant there was royal involvement, the only question was which royal family, since many of the royal families produced level one warships, and while that might seem plenty, it was also limited—after all, there were only so many royal families.

With royal involvement and considering the origins of this affair as well as the benefits that Finn Lewis stood to gain, everyone knew who was likely involved. Naturally, this was all speculation, and could only be speculation, unless there was solid evidence; otherwise, it would be slander against the royal family.

But what really piqued everyone’s curiosity was where Finn Lewis got so many resources. What a joke. If royal families could so easily possess level one warships, then they would be far too easy to obtain, and that simply wasn’t the case.@@novelbin@@

Level one warships, in all aspects, represented the pinnacle of warship manufacturing, with every technology on board being the most advanced. Although only royal families could operate them, not all royal families possessed this technology.

For example, within the nine great surnames of the royal family, although these nine families are all incredibly formidable, the Kalista Family among them does not have the capability to produce level one warships. Their family’s main strength and production lines focus on a different technology.

Of course, even though they can’t produce level one warships, they can purchase them and have allied families, so their strength is naturally not too weak. However, their family indeed does not have level one warships; this is a fact. Warships, you see, unless you can find the right buyer, producing them is just a waste of funding.

Firstly, can you yourself use them? If you can use them, then how many can you actually employ? Just look at the Surveillance Bureau, which only operates three fleets to see that the number of operational warships is actually very limited. Because the Heritage System is very peaceful, disputes are also limited.

In a context where disputes are limited, the use of these warships is also very restricted. Although there are space pirates, their strength isn’t formidable. A bit of power is enough to stop most space pirates, and the larger pirate bands dare not brazenly invade the territories of the federation. If they did, they’d be blatantly inviting trouble from the Surveillance Bureau.

For these reasons, large pirate bands don’t dare to operate so openly, and so, whether developing level one warships or weaker warships, even less than some merchant vessels or transport ships, manufacturers are more profitable. This is because these items are expensive, but the high price doesn’t correlate with a high profit, or even with many buyers. Conflict between families may seem prevalent.

These families do have conflicts with each other, but the conflicts persist to a certain degree, where vendettas exist, but unless they reach the level of the nine great surnames of the royal family, the impact is minimal, with the royal family above it all.

In such a scenario, with limited impact, there are naturally few who can purchase these warships. Thus, if one wishes to investigate, it’s quite easy to trace back.

“This idiot,” Nora Rhodes covered her mouth, giggling as she watched the young man in front of her throwing a fit. At that moment, the young man looked just like a child. Of course, Nora didn’t care about this since her heart was almost entirely tied to the young man before her, even at the cost of abandoning her royal status.

However, his mood was obviously not good. His sourness was not due to other issues, but because of Finn Lewis. Who asked Finn Lewis to be so idiotic as to use the warships that his own family had sold and act directly as pirates?

If the Surveillance Bureau found out and came knocking, the whole family would be in trouble. Even though the Wren Clan was a part of the royal family, not even the royals could escape the scrutiny of the Surveillance Bureau. Wasn’t this idiocy?

Didn’t he know where his level one warships were purchased from? If a problem arose, wouldn’t that be a self-admission of guilt? Even though their level one warships were secretly developed by their family and had never been sold externally, because there was no market for them.

Only Finn Lewis had bought them. Although the family had once produced a batch, who let this batch of warships go unsold? Now, only Finn Lewis had them.

“No, I need to contact the family.” The young man gritted his teeth and spoke bluntly, “Destroy all the blueprints and production records. After all, our family can produce more than just this one model of warship.” Although this loss would be considerable,

it was still within an acceptable range. Anyway, as long as they didn’t bankrupt the whole family, it would be manageable. However, the Wren Clan had already been in a serious financial crisis, and this would only worsen it. This was the reason for the young man’s grimace.