The events at the Great Merchant Guild's Product Launch quickly spread through Bunta City and several neighboring cities as the major newspapers scrambled to report them.
Almost overnight, the Great Merchant Guild became a public pariah, condemned by everyone.
Sales of the various kinds of magic machinery the Great Merchant Guild had previously produced also vanished in an instant. Its products had even become something everyone avoided like the plague.
Of course, sales no longer mattered to the Great Merchant Guild.
After the Product Launch, the Great Merchant Guild immediately announced its closure, while its President, Camiro, vanished without a trace.
In everyone's eyes, Camiro and the Great Merchant Guild he had founded were now disgraceful thieves and frauds, with no hope of ever recovering.
When people recalled everything the Great Merchant Guild and Camiro had done over the previous month, they found it as absurd as watching a clown's performance.
The thought that the Great Merchant Guild had actually dared proclaim it would surpass the Xinfei Merchant Guild made everyone scoff.
After this incident, the Xinfei Merchant Guild's standing in people's minds became even more secure and rose further.
Everyone now agreed that, although the Xinfei Merchant Guild might not yet be powerful enough to count as Bunta City's largest merchant guild or one of the Lampari Kingdom's leading merchant guilds, no other guild could possibly match it in the field of magic machinery. No person or merchant guild could compete with it in that field.
People also came to place greater value on Xinfei magic machinery.
After this incident, sales of the Xinfei Merchant Guild's various kinds of magic machinery actually soared. Even though it was already late August and summer was nearly over, sales of Xinfei Magic Fans, Magic Air Conditioners, and Magic Iceboxes, products mainly used