Before long, another two months passed.
And during those two months, quite a few big events took place in the Federation.
First, the Black Ring Merchant Guild, which had previously spent heavily to purchase one hundred thousand Skeleton Laborers, finally completed construction of its Construct Factory and began selling all kinds of new military Constructs to the Federation.
At the same time, the Construct Factory invested in by the Eternal Gold Crown Merchant Guild from the Gloria Empire was completed almost simultaneously with the Black Ring Merchant Guild's factory.
Then, at a speed that left outsiders unable to react, the two major merchant guilds began a brutal price war.
A Construct with a market retail price of 249 Gold Coins, and you were selling it for just 200? Fine, then I'll sell mine for 180!
What? You dropped the unit price to 170? Then I'll drop mine to 150!
Third Rank military single-soldier Constructs that had originally retailed for 249 Gold Coins each were directly slashed by the two merchant guilds to 120 Gold Coins apiece in this price war. Bulk purchases could even be pushed below 100 Gold Coins!
It had to be said that, as Low-Rank mass-produced Magic Constructs, these Constructs had originally relied on volume sales. Their profit margins had already been squeezed extremely low.
The price of the enchanted materials and Magic Crystals consumed in producing one such Construct alone exceeded 120 Gold Coins, not to mention the costs and losses of Skeleton Laborers and production lines.
After fighting the price war for a while, the Black Ring Merchant Guild and the Eternal Gold Crown Merchant Guild seemed to have sent people to negotiate and reached a certain tacit understanding. In the end, they stabilized the price at 115 Gold Coins per unit, with a wholesale