Translator: Hellscythe_ Editor: Hellscythe_
The Candlelight Trading Firm developed very quickly, and it constantly recruited Lifestyle players.
Despite the Candlelight Trading Firm having two high-end Shops in White River City, they simply did not have enough space to house over a thousand Lifestyle players. For each of the three-story-tall Shops, the first floors were used exclusively for selling products, the second floor housed the various workshops, and the third floor housed the warehouse, offices, and lounges. Hence, not many workshops in each Shop were available for the Firm's Lifestyle players' use.
As a result, Melancholic Smile had no choice but to send the Lifestyle players to the various Lifestyle Associations to produce items.
Although the matter of space could be resolved this way, it significantly increased the Firm's expenditures.
Renting the workshops in the Lifestyle Associations required money. A Basic Workshop's impact on a player's success rate was insignificant, so, Melancholic Smile mostly rented Intermediate Workshops for the Firm's Lifestyle players. Meanwhile, renting an Intermediate Workshop cost 1 Silver per hour. If she rented workshops for 100 people, that was 1 Gold per hour. If she rented enough workshops for 1,000 people, that was 10 Gold per hour.
Ten Gold Coins...that was almost a small Guild's total liquid funds.
Melancholic Smile even considered suggesting that Shi Feng purchase a few more plots of Land and establish more Shops. Unfortunately, in order to satisfy the current number of Lifestyle players they had in the Firm, they would require two or three plots of Land.
However, the situation had changed.
Now, the Candlelight Trading Firm next to the Auction House had been promoted to a five-story building. Although it seemed that it had only gained two more floors, it was equivalent to having two more Shops' worth of workshops. In fact, the space inside the Shop had also grown; it was now roughly a little more than twice the original size.
With so much space, the Candlelight Trading Firm could save a lot on rental fees.
Melancholic Smile only wished that Shi Feng would upgrade all of the Candlelight Trading Firm's Shops. That way, the Firm would not have to spend any money on renting workshops.
Shi Feng could not help but laugh at Melancholic Smile's reaction.
In the past, even after God's Domain had operated for over a year, countless players were unable to promote their 1-star Shops to 2-stars. It was purely due to luck that the Candlelight Trading Firm had obtained the Promotion Order so quickly.
It was practically impossible to obtain another Shop Promotion Order from the Twilight Treasure Chests.
Though, if he could upgrade the Icarus's Heart to Epic rank, there might be a small chance for Shi Feng to obtain a second one.
Shi Feng then had Melancholic Smile meet him in the meeting room on the fifth floor of the Firm with Cream Cocoa and Roasted Ironheart.
The benefits a 2-star Shop offered were not limited to an increase in space. Otherwise, there wouldn't have been so many players desperately trying to upgrade their 1-star Shops to 2-star Shops in the past, willingly spending tens of thousands of Gold to obtain a Shop Promotion Order.
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Meanwhile, the news of the Candlelight Trading Firm owning a 2-star Shop spread quickly. After all, all of White River City knew of the Candlelight Trading Firm. A majority of the players residing in the city had shopped at the Trading Firm at least once before. Now that one of the Shops had mysteriously grown, it would definitely attract a lot of attention.
