While merchant guilds large and small in Bunta City fretted over Earl Stark's actions after taking over as city lord, their members growing restless, Falling Rain Valley, sixty kilometers away, remained peaceful yet busy, brimming with energy and vitality.
The Xinfei Merchant Guild seemed entirely unaffected by its move out of Sankton Manor. Everyone continued doing exactly the same work they had been busy with before.
The entire guild still ran smoothly. Not only did its leadership, headed by Xu Yi, show no particular emotional reaction, but even the ordinary workers remained calm, without the slightest sign of unrest.
This was hardly surprising.
Perhaps to the other merchant guilds in Bunta City, or even its ordinary residents, Sankton Manor was an extremely important place for the Xinfei Merchant Guild. Now that Earl Stark's targeting of Xu Yi had forced the guild to move out and lose this crucial base, it must have been a serious blow to both the guild and Xu Yi, with considerable consequences.
In reality, however, Sankton Manor was nowhere near as important to the Xinfei Merchant Guild as others imagined.
At first, Sankton Manor had indeed been extremely important to the Xinfei Merchant Guild. When the guild moved there from Viscount Leslie's territory, it had possessed only a Magic Machine Tool Workshop and a Domestic Magic Machinery Production Workshop.
Although Sankton Manor was not large, it was effectively the Xinfei Merchant Guild's entire Production Base. Its importance was obvious.
But after more than a year of development, Falling Rain Valley had gradually been built up, and the Xinfei Merchant Guild's main Production Base had steadily shifted there.
Falling Rain Valley now had as many as eight factory workshops spun off from the Domestic Magic Machinery Production Workshop alone.
Previously, whenever the Xinfei Merchant Guild produced household