The sudden appearance of Anise, the female elf, had shocked Stille and Vivian, but no one besides those two knew about it, so it naturally caused little stir.
The people of Bunta City continued their everyday lives, and the Xinfei Merchant Guild continued advancing steadily along the course Xu Yi had set.
Development of the Magic Power Forging Machine Tools was going smoothly.
With Great Mage Camilla's full support, research into the core power magic arrays for the series of Magic Power Forging Machine Tools progressed rapidly. Great Mage Camilla handled the crucial work of positioning the magic arrays and making preliminary improvements, while further adjustments to the details were left to the mages under her at the Magic Tower.
Since everyone at Camilla's Magic Tower had already collaborated with the Xinfei Merchant Guild on research several times, the work remained orderly despite the heavy workload this time, and Xu Yi was very pleased with their progress.
Combined with the progress Canby and the other dwarves were making on the tools' physical design and structure, Xu Yi was confident that, barring any surprises, they could finish developing the series of Magic Power Forging Machine Tools within the estimated month and put them into operation shortly afterward.
Although that might take slightly longer than the deadline he had promised Servini, Xu Yi's estimates of the Magic Power Forging Machine Tool's production capacity indicated that once the machines were in operation, all three thousand units of Farmland Magic Machinery in the first order could be completed more than a month early, giving the Agriculture Bureau ample time to arrange their deployment.
Of course, in Xu Yi's view, the development period for the Magic Power Forging Machine Tools was still far too short.
Although his thoroughly tested knowledge of mechanical theory from Earth