"By the way, don't you plan on raising your guiding fees a bit?"
Crane pondered for a moment before replying with some resignation:
"We can't really help it. Our world is dominated by a few superpowers, and they control most of the mana crystals."
These superpowers were truly formidable; Crane even suspected that they had already surpassed the limits of the world itself.
However, for some unknown reason, they had yet to ascend to the God Realm.
Moreover, mana stones and mana crystals were all hoarded.
This led to one consequence:
Most people here were stuck at Tier-God levels from other worlds.
But in their own world, those who ascended to the God Realm always seemed terribly poor.
Forget about ten thousand mana crystals.
Most people barely had any superior mana stones on hand.
"Where did all the mana crystals go?"
The answer was simple: they were used up ensuring successful ascension to the God Realm.