Five days later, a convoy of ten passenger carriages bearing the Feilson Carriage Company's emblem slowly entered Anvilmar City.
The convoy headed straight to the Shelton Hotel, the largest hotel in Anvilmar City, where attendants in immaculate hotel uniforms immediately came out to greet them.
The carriage doors opened, and the researchers from the Xinfei Merchant Guild's Magic Research Institute hopped out one after another.
Bella looked up at the Shelton Hotel. It stood four stories tall and occupied a vast stretch of land in Anvilmar City, its exterior alone revealing its lavish grandeur. She could not help gasping in admiration.
"Mr. President, are we really staying somewhere this nice?"
"Yes, I heard this place is really expensive. Doesn't it cost at least ten gold coins a night?" Claire exclaimed beside her.
They were not the only two who looked amazed. Everyone else wore equally stunned expressions.
These mages had chosen to work at the Xinfei Merchant Guild's Magic Research Institute primarily because it offered sufficiently high pay. All their other reasons were secondary.
Put another way, their financial circumstances were quite ordinary.
Not one of these mages had ever stayed at a place like the Shelton Hotel, one of the finest hotels in the Lampari Kingdom.
Now that they had seen its luxury for themselves and realized they would soon be staying there, they could hardly contain their excitement.
"Yes, that's roughly the price," Xu Yi replied vaguely.
In fact, he had booked twenty rooms at the Shelton Hotel a month in advance for a full week. The total cost had reached a staggering two thousand gold coins.
That was enough to pay these researchers at the Magic Research Institute an entire month's wages!
He had done this because the Mages' Guild's Qualification Certification Examination, which had already been