Volume 3 Chapter 6 - Banta City that has fallen into darkness (1/2)

Qurik jumped out of the public transport carriage and was immediately scared by what he saw.

This was his second time at the Falling Rain Valley, but he found that it was several times more lively compared to when he delivered cargo with the Sundial Chamber of Commerce last time.

Not only were there a surge of people from the factories of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, creating a lively scene, even in the space across the Falling Rain Road were a bunch of factories.

Qurik looked over and saw the familiar symbol of the Sundial Chamber of Commerce among these factories.

Thinking of how he wasn’t willing to go to a far place like the Falling Rain Valley, losing his job at the Sundial Chamber of Commerce, Quirk couldn’t help feeling some regret.

The reason he wasn’t willing to leave was other than being too far from his parents, he didn’t want to be too far from Banta City. It was definitely remote and not lively, so it wouldn’t be fun at all.

After coming here and taking a look, he found that although this place wasn’t as lively as Banta City, it wasn’t far off.

Moreover, based on the flow of people here, it wasn’t impossible for it to become as lively as Banta City in the future.

Qurik was very clear on why this had happened.

It was because the new Lord City Lord was suppressing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so the Frestech Chamber of Commerce took the lead in leaving Banta City and developed the Falling Rain Valley.

Because the Lord City Lord also took out this agricultural promotion policy that everyone cursed in secret, it caused the other companies to follow the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and leave Banta City.

With the drive of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, not only did the large companies from before develop, there were several hundred medium and small sized companies related to magic machines.

There were over five hundred companies in Banta City now and because of this policy, over half of them had left.

Among them, almost all the small companies related to magic machines all chose to follow the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and set up factories outside the Falling Rain Valley.

Although in theory the Falling Rain Valley was outside Banta City’s range, according to the report from the «Banta Times», the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s chairman Xu had recently become a viscount and what shocked people was that he had been granted territory.

That territory was the land of Falling Rain Valley and the surrounding land.

Because this was the private territory of Viscount Xu Yi, the policies that Count Stagg implemented didn’t apply here at all.

In the statement that Xu Yi issued in the «Banta Times», he explicitly welcomed all companies related to magic machines to come to Falling Rain Valley to create a magic machine industrial base with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

So with the Ireland Chamber of Commerce taking the lead, in just a few months, the small component processing companies had all moved to the land outside the Falling Rain Valley in just a month.

Among them included the Sundial Chamber of Commerce Qurik was a part of before.

This sudden move naturally created serious economic losses for these small companies.

But Xu Yi had announced a compensation matter. The small companies would have reduced rent for the first five years to help them move over safely, allowing them to boldly develop here.

To many people, Xu Yi’s method was forcefully stealing all the companies related to magic machines from Banta City.

But no one thought he was going too far, rather many people were excited.

Now that the Banta City Lord City Lord had announced he would be suppressing business development, these large companies were greatly affected and the small companies were naturally even more affected. Now that Xu Yi had given them this chance, how could those small companies not seize this chance to leave Banta City?

Rather because those large companies had many assets and were well established in Banta City, it wasn’t easy for them to move.

The small companies had been here for less than a month and they had already resumed their normal production, this was clearly the flexibility advantage of a small company.

Following these small companies, there were many companies related to daily necessities.

On the sides of the Falling Rain Road, there were rows of buildings and there were stores opening.

Based on the dazzling amount of products, the prosperity of this place wasn’t less than Banta City.

Qurik looked at the Sundial Chamber of Commerce’s factory and the stores along the road and he shook his head. He suppressed the bit of regret in his heart and walked into the Falling Rain Valley.

After he entered the Falling Rain Valley, Quirk was stunned.

Compared to when he was here last time, the Falling Rain Valley had greatly changed.

Other than people, there were several more workshops in the valley. There was even an extra steel mill that Qurik had paid attention to the most last time.

The road in the valley was much better compared to before. In the empty spaces along the roads, there was grass laid everywhere, as well as many different kinds of flowers, creating a beautiful contrast in the valley. When people looked at it, they would even think they were walking through a large garden, rather than walking through an industrial district.

What Qurik noticed first was the three meters tall iron poles on the sides of the roads that were placed several meters apart.