Five days later, Xu Yi appeared on the streets of Anvilmar City.
As the Lampari Kingdom developed at a tremendous pace, its capital, Anvilmar City, also began to change rapidly.
The most obvious and immediately visible change was the proliferation of shops selling all kinds of household magic machinery along the city's roads.
Walking through the city's streets and alleys, one could see people using all sorts of household magic machinery everywhere.
It was summer, but Anvilmar City's residents no longer had to leave their stifling homes and find somewhere shady to escape the heat as they had in the past. Even if they could not afford a high-end household appliance like a Magic Air Conditioner, which easily cost twenty or thirty gold coins apiece, buying a Magic Fan was at least within their means.
Xu Yi glanced around and saw many homes with their front doors open on both sides of the street. Through them, he could see Magic Fans of different designs and colors spinning at high speed.
Not all of these were Xinfei Magic Fans.
Since the manufacturing technology for Magic Fans had been the first technology Xu Yi made available for licensing, many brands of Magic Fans had now emerged within the Lampari Kingdom.
Although the people of the Lampari Kingdom still regarded Xinfei Magic Fans as the best and most prestigious, the quality and performance of other brands were drawing ever closer to them, making those brands increasingly competitive.
According to last month's figures, the Xinfei Merchant Guild's total Magic Fan sales within the Lampari Kingdom since the start of summer had increased by seventeen percent over the previous year, a steady improvement. Its market share within the kingdom, however, had fallen from an overwhelmingly dominant seventy-six percent last year to fifty-three percent.
Taken together,