blueteamnovel Chapter 231 - 234 Ran out of money...
Chapter 231 - 234 Ran out of money...
Chapter 231: Chapter 234 Ran out of money…
The cost of developing the new armor had completely exceeded Rocky’s imagination, and it even surpassed the maximum financial burden he could bear!
When Hammerfire produced the fifth version of the improved armor and started to work on a comprehensive upgrade to the next version, the one million Gold Coins provided by Rocky were entirely spent…
To the average person, such spending would be unimaginable because only a few months had passed since the beginning of the Rune Armor project. Yet they had already spent over a million Gold Coins in such a short period, burning cash even faster than indulging in eating, drinking, and gambling.
But this was the reality, and not only was it a fact, but in the eyes of people like Orton, it wasn’t even surprising because even a few million Gold Coins being spent on the re
As a result, everyone began to discuss countermeasures, looking for ways to gather enough research funds.
After much discussion, they could only think of two methods.
The first was for everyone to pool their money together. Rocky could still contribute 300,000 gold coins, and other researchers like Orton were masters in their field. Although they owned no industries, it was still not a problem for each of them to contribute hundreds of thousands of gold coins. Thus, by pooling together, they could raise another million gold coins for research. If they had an additional million in funds, according to Orton and others’ estimates, they might not be able to achieve much, but they could complete this phase of the research.
But this method had one problem: it was not sustainable.
The research on Rune Armor was not something that could be finished in a day or two, a month or two. Even if the new White Demon Armor was fully successful, it wouldn’t mark the end of the project. Far from it, in fact—it would just be the beginning! The successful development of the White Demon Armor would signify the opening of a new field in Rune Armor, revealing many aspects to delve into deeper. Only then would the Rune Armor project really commence!
As the research deepened, funding would be consumed like a bottomless pit. What would Rocky and his colleagues do then?
Would they tighten their belts and pool money together again? Even if they were willing, they wouldn’t be able to raise the funds!
So this method could only temporarily alleviate the urgent problems but wouldn’t solve the issue completely.
As for the second method everyone thought of, it was to seek investors.
Perhaps by approaching businessmen like the Chambers of Commerce or current Armor manufacturers or by turning to City Lords, whether ordinary ones or alliances like the Sky Alliance. In short, they needed to find wealthy individuals to invest in the Rune Armor project. With their support, the financial issue would be resolved permanently.
In fact, more than ninety percent of current research is carried out in this manner, with one party providing funds while the other conducts the research.
However, there was also a significant issue with this approach, that is, the necessity to share the research results with the investors.
The project Rocky and Orton were working on was their private venture, meaning that any successful outcomes belonged to them alone. But once they sought investments for their research, even if funding was no longer an issue, the results would no longer belong solely to Rocky; they would have to be shared with the investors.
This was clearly not what Rocky wanted to see. It wasn’t because he was stingy and wanted to hide and hoard the runes as treasures; the research they were conducting was just too important to him.
Once the research on Rune Armor succeeded, it would become the core technology in the field of runes. And as long as he held this core technology, even if Rocky publicized Mana Runes to the world, allowing everyone to know of their existence and start researching them, he would still maintain a leading position because he had the core technology!
In the realm of technology, the principle of staying a step ahead is immutable. If you control core technology, you will inevitably lead the competitive research race, and the Rune Armor research represented such core technology.
In this scenario, once outsiders entered and had access to their research results, Rocky would lose his advantage completely.
With that, the group found themselves at an impasse, unable to think of a solution that would meet both needs.
However, it was at this moment that Hammerfire suddenly spoke up.
“City Lord, lad, I might have a way to alleviate the financial strain temporarily, although this method is quite dangerous…”
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