After April began, the people of Bunta City suddenly noticed that the Xinfei Merchant Guild seemed to have settled down all at once.
It was not that the Xinfei Merchant Guild had been restless before. Everyone had simply grown used to it making big news every so often, whether by releasing an innovative product or revealing some sensational development. Whatever it did, it always drew everyone's attention.
Yet after April began, the Xinfei Merchant Guild remained quiet for an entire month.
This quiet did not mean that the Xinfei Merchant Guild had stopped doing anything.
On the contrary, all the factories under its name continued operating methodically, and its products continued leaving those factories in an orderly flow, bound for destinations throughout the Lampari Kingdom.
Even the overall redevelopment of Bunta City, for which the Xinfei Merchant Guild bore primary responsibility, suddenly began progressing much faster than before.
Previously, the Amli Merchant Guild had only one construction crew laying roads outside Bunta City, so only one road could be built at a time.
Now, however, the number of construction crews outside the city had jumped to four, with four roads being laid simultaneously.
Meanwhile, the Bunta Daily had previously reported that Xu Yi, president of the Xinfei Merchant Guild, intended to install streetlamps along Bunta City's roads to provide light at night. However, as the technology was not yet perfected, some preparation time was needed, and he was only aiming to finish within the year.
Yet barely half a month after that report in the Bunta Daily, people in Bunta City saw numerous workers erecting lampposts along both sides of the roads. These were somewhat shorter than the lamps around the New Civic Square, and workers had begun installing magic lamps on them.
Although some people wondered whether this was