New-Style Housing Starts Catching On?

In just a few days, it seemed everyone had begun paying attention to the steel industry.

Even those under Viscount Rost who knew full well that steel production was more than sufficient could not help wondering when they saw the overwhelming flood of news: Could steel really be in short supply?

Was the steel market really booming that much?

Could that many people really have gotten involved in magitech industrialization, leaving steel production unable to keep up?

As more and more people joined these discussions, Foster Mining Company's orders kept skyrocketing, and the unit prices of those orders kept rising as well.

In just a few days, its orders were already booked a year into the future.

Even more alarming, the unit prices had already risen to more than three times their original level, and there still seemed to be plenty of room for further increases.

"They're crazy. These people really are crazy."

Viscount Rost could not help remarking, "Demand has barely increased, yet they've somehow created a market with such a severe shortage."

"I really don't know how frightening things will get if this keeps going."

For some reason, he could already vaguely picture the market plunging before long.

After all, the contracts circulating in the Futures Market had been actual orders, and Foster Mining Company was genuinely producing those goods.

If demand did not increase, all that extra steel would have nowhere to go, and prices would inevitably crash.

Just then, however, Viscount Rost discovered that things were not so simple.

He suddenly saw a new announcement appear on the Magic Net.

"With the number of residents continuing to grow, Golden City will begin large-scale construction of new-style housing and inns built in the same style to meet more people's accommodation needs. Their projected capacity will exceed one