Night had grown deep.
Bunta City's New District was still ablaze with lights. Even from a distance, the clamor from streets several blocks away could be heard, mingled with uninhibited laughter, amply demonstrating why this city was called the jewel of the continent's southwest and the city that never slept.
Xu Yi gazed at the distant lights and listened to the familiar bustle reaching his ears, feeling for a moment as though he had crossed worlds again and returned to a metropolis on Earth.
Bunta City was the birthplace of the Xinfei Merchant Guild. After so many years of steady development, it had long since become a major city that rivaled, and even surpassed, Anvilmar City, the capital of the Lampari Kingdom. It held an extremely important position in the continent's southwest and even across the entire Sains Continent. Known as the capital of the continent's magic industry sector, it was naturally bustling and prosperous.
Yet as Xu Yi walked through the streets of Bunta City's New District, his heart was filled with a faint sadness and melancholy, along with a trace of bewilderment.
Yes, the sadness and melancholy in Xu Yi's heart were not overwhelming.
Heinz was nearly ninety this year, after all. For an ordinary human who was not a Mage, dying now meant he had already lived a very long life, far exceeding the average human lifespan on the Sains Continent. He had certainly had his fair share of years.
Moreover, since stepping down as Vice President of the Xinfei Merchant Guild, he had spent over twenty years enjoying retirement. Thanks to the substantial income from his shares in the guild, not only had he and Aunt Rhea enjoyed an exceptionally luxurious life, but their relatives and friends had benefited as well, living very comfortably as a