Three days later, Elder Windini brought a group of elven Mages from the Azshara Tribe back to the Stantin Duchy with Xu Yi, Stille, and their party.
Liss and Linda took the children ahead to the Xinfei Merchant Guild's Main Base, while Xu Yi and the others stopped along the way in Xinfei City.
Over the past few years, Xinfei City had grown from nothing into a sprawling city covering more than ten square kilometers, with over fifty thousand permanent residents and a transient population that exceeded three hundred thousand even at its lowest.
The reason for that astonishing transient population was that the Xinfei Merchant Guild had designed this place as a distribution hub.
Apart from goods shipped out through the port by sea, everything the Xinfei Merchant Guild sent elsewhere first went to Xinfei City, then was dispatched through the guild's distribution center there.
For this reason, the headquarters of the Filson Transport Guild's Stantin Duchy branch was also located here. This naturally made the city the duchy's logistics hub, and other merchant guilds in the Stantin Duchy likewise brought their goods here for further distribution.
Because of this advantage, many merchant guilds in the Stantin Duchy simply built their factories near Xinfei City.
Over the years, a belt of assorted factories formed around Xinfei City, giving the city an exceptionally abundant variety and quantity of goods and naturally attracting even more people.
Thanks to this virtuous cycle, Xinfei City grew increasingly prosperous. It could now unquestionably be called the most prosperous city in the Stantin Duchy, without exception.
Even among the countries in the southwestern corner of the Sains Continent, Xinfei City still ranked as one of the most prosperous cities, every bit the equal of their capitals.
Elder Windini had brought the tribe's elven Mages here