Meanwhile, back in the central town of the Grafted Cluster, Hestu and Bulren were just given notice of their huge bump in profits in a single day.
"See?" Hestu bragged, pointing at the papers in Bulren's desk. "It's working. The people are using Flarecorp products."
But despite increasing his gains to nearly double its normal amount, Bulren couldn't bring himself to celebrate. He looked out of the window and saw the outskirts of the central town being separated from the outside world by a semi-invisible wall of fire that prevented anyone from going outside.
There were Flarecorp soldiers posted all around the circumference of the flaming sphere, preventing people from hurting themselves as they tried to sneak out of the territory.
