Chapter 504: Thunder from the Nine Heavens

The world’s financial markets opened not with a bell, but with a cataclysm. It began as a tremor in the Tokyo Stock Exchange, a sudden, inexplicable sell-off of shares in a dozen seemingly unrelated logistics and pharmaceutical companies. Before analysts could even formulate a theory, the tremor became an earthquake that ripped across Asia and into Europe. In Frankfurt, a titan of private banking saw its credit rating evaporate in ninety minutes. In London, a network of shell corporations,...