Half a month after Vena's conversation with Xu Yi, a merchant guild called Great quietly appeared in Bunta City.
Unlike traditional merchant guilds, this guild focused entirely on magic machinery, just like the Xinfei Merchant Guild.
At first, neither the people of Bunta City nor its major merchant guilds paid much attention to the Great Merchant Guild. Ever since the Xinfei Merchant Guild had become famous, guilds hoping to make a fortune by copying its approach to magic machinery had sprung up everywhere. There was nothing unusual about it.
Before this, many of Bunta City's long-established major merchant guilds had entertained the same idea. But after Xu Yi had shattered their illusions with facts at that joint meeting of the Commercial Association, none of its member guilds had retained any desire to compete with the Xinfei Merchant Guild in magic machinery.
Although the strong sales of magic fans elsewhere had rekindled a glimmer of hope, prompting some guilds in Bunta City to invest money and manpower in researching and producing magic machinery again, not one still believed it could surpass the Xinfei Merchant Guild in that field.
Yet no sooner had the Great Merchant Guild established itself in Bunta City than it hung an outrageously arrogant banner over its shop.
"Great magic machinery gives you an experience beyond Xinfei magic machinery."
When they first saw this banner, everyone in Bunta City scoffed and treated it as a joke.
The Bunta Daily even devoted an entire report to examining the truth of the Great Merchant Guild's claim.
Everyone knew, however, that given the Bunta Daily's close relationship with the Xinfei Merchant Guild, the more seriously it appeared to analyze the claim, the more it was actually mocking and ridiculing the Great Merchant Guild.
But when the Great Merchant Guild began selling