Chapter 32: The Conquest of the Forgotten
Subheading: "What ancient gods guarded, you now own."
I. The Rune Warning
The encrypted rune found in the dragon archives wasn't just a message.
It was a test.
The System flagged it as a pre-System script — predating all known digital or magical code. After intensive decryption, a hidden thread unlocked:
"They called us the Architects. You are a child wearing a crown of systems."
"The First Market was ours. The last empire shall be ours again."
Location embedded: The Forgotten Zone — uncharted, dimensionally veiled, locked behind ancient trade seals.
And so, you prepared.
II. The Expedition
With your elite synthetic envoys, magical economists, and armored expeditionary division, you pierced the dimensional seal — powered by the System's full protocol override.
What you found was not a place — but an entire hidden civilization.
A self-contained society of hyper-ancient beings known as the Aeturnari, creators of the First Trade Code
They operated entirely outside of modern magic and commerce
They had no stock, no banks, no corporations — only contracts older than time, bound by reality itself
Their "currency" was cosmic influence.
Their "companies" were living constructs.
Their "marketplace" existed across timelines.
But they underestimated one thing: You had the System.
III. The Takeover of the Aeturnari
You adapted.
Created a multi-temporal holding company using extrapolated code from System artifacts
Bought influence from lower Aeturnari through reconstructed "honor contracts" — converting them into loyalty tokens
Bribed, corrupted, and outbid high elders by offering them access to the modern world's infinite debt model
Introduced shareholders' logic into their eternal hierarchy — dividing their ancient authority into stock units
And when resistance rose?
You executed a full System Override, trapping their dimension into a sub-realm simulation, now regulated by your global exchange protocols.
IV. System Alert – Total Integration Complete
✅ Final Civilization Acquired
✅ All known and unknown markets consolidated
✅ Interdimensional Trade Protocol Activated
✅ Universal Ownership Threshold Reached: 100.00%
✅ Monopoly Condition: TRUE
New System Title: The Omnicrown
Description: "Bearer of Every Company, Every System, Every Name."
V. A World Owned
Every species.
Every market.
Every guild, bank, casino, transport line, mine, kingdom, family trust, and forbidden relic…
Now belonged to you.
You didn't just rule the world.
You owned it.
There was no competition. No resistance.
Even time itself seemed to submit — as the Aeturnari merged their eternity into your ledger.