The Xinfei Merchant Guild was holding another product launch.
After the previous two product launches, everyone had high expectations when the Xinfei Merchant Guild announced this launch in the Bunta Daily three days in advance. Aside from unveiling a new product, what big news would the guild break this time?
Although this product launch was being held at Sankton Manor, a full fifteen kilometers from Bunta City, countless people began streaming toward the manor early that morning, coming from Bunta City and even several cities farther away.
Sankton Manor was already completely different from when Viscount Sankton had owned it. As factories of various sizes belonging to dozens of small merchant guilds were built around it and settled into steady operation, the roar of magic machinery could be heard throughout the surrounding area every day, making it a bustling place.
Both Bunta City's newspapers and those of several nearby cities had reported on this transformation.
Several newspapers in the capital, Anvilmar City, had even run a series of follow-up reports and analyses, trying to determine its impact and consequences for Bunta City.
No one could yet tell what the full impact and consequences would be. One visible result, however, was that besides the merchant guilds' factories, many other guilds had opened shops near Sankton Manor to provide everyday services for the large number of workers there.
The workers alone already numbered several thousand. With the people providing those services and those who had simply moved nearby, the area's resident population had actually exceeded ten thousand!
That was why many people in and around Bunta City had already taken to calling the place Sankton Town in private.
With the Xinfei Merchant Guild holding its product launch today, countless people from all walks of life poured into Sankton Town early in the