Mixed Blessing System



One week later...

After Mabel and Aiken's quarrel with Lothur, the days passed without any big news in Peters City.

Their allied powers had not talked about the rumor of Lothur and Mabel's quarrel that had spread locally. Still, even the enemy powers of this young man were not badmouthing Annaliese around this city.

All that was circulating was that, for some internal reason, the Frost family leadership and Lothur had had a heated argument in the vicinity of young Ritter's estate.

In any case, the daily increase of vehicles from the local transport company, the deliveries of the first cars ordered, and some projects related to the Ritter Motor Company were attracting more attention from the local population than these rumors.

After these days since the launch of Lothur's transport company, seven more minibusses had joined the fleet running around Peters City.

The demand for this service had grown exponentially in the days that had passed, with practically every vehicle from this company running around Peters City at full capacity.

Many citizens had adopted this transport option after learning about the service for the first time, thousands having already purchased tickets capable of giving two trips for the price of one.

Because of this, the Lothur station had already collected over 100,000 bronze coins in the last few days, just from people who had deposited their coins in these tickets, the formations that the young Ritter had presented to his partners.

At the same time, the minibusses collected more than 150,000 bronze coins in the normal mode.

But as ordinary citizens began to spend less time moving around the city and picking up the habit of riding the minibusses, the first cars were finally delivered.

The men of the Ritter Motor Company had been striving to increase the rate of car production these past few days, with fewer people developing vehicles and more assembling the ones already launched.

Because of this, production of those four car models, which should have been only 28 units in those seven days, reached the 83-unit mark, plus the eight vehicles made earlier this week.

So, in addition to the 11 cars from the Ritter Motor Company partners, 91 more units were already circulating the streets of Peters City!

On this day, 114 vehicles were already circulating the streets of Peters City, enough for even people from outside of Peters City, who normally come there to visit or do business, to find out about the cars.

These people would be the ones to spread the rumors of independent animal power vehicles outside of Linn Province soon, which would boost Lothur's company.

But for now, these vehicles were responsible for a revolution in Peters City, as this place was being transformed to suit these vehicles.

Due to the needs and facilities of the cars and minibusses, everyone in this city now wanted their streets changed by the Lothur paving company.

With this, construction work was spreading throughout this city, with families and the local government itself paying for this company to make the necessary adjustments.

At the same time, the previously unemployed mortals in this city no longer existed. All the mortals available for hire without Lothur having to steal employees from other businesses were now working for him in some way.

Most were providing services for the paving company, which was not only renovating the local streets but creating the province's first roads.

Buses were already being developed to start intercity operations in the coming months. Thus, the development of the local roads was developing at a rapid pace.

Amid all this, the local driver training school had begun operations, charging a thousand bronze coins for the course required to learn to drive the cars.

Thousands of people had already enrolled in this institution, where they could learn to drive their own cars.

All one would need to do would be to notify the instructor of the day their car would be delivered, and the lesson would be applied immediately.

Cultivators could learn this quickly, but mortals would first have to study for a few weeks at the driver training school before they could touch that company's own car.

Anyway, the Ritter motor company's operations had been developing for the launch of their following product, material transport trucks.

Lothur had planned three types of vehicles for logistics operations. One was a larger, bus-sized version that could be used for intercity trips with higher cargo volume. The other would be the size of a minibus for trips between cities, but also internally, with a little less load but still with significant capacity. Finally, the third vehicle would be the size of a pick-up truck, useful for small deliveries within cities.

These three vehicles only needed to be adapted from their alternative versions. Therefore two of them were already launched today, while only the larger version of the trucks would have to wait longer to be launched.

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[Van: 129,999 bronze coins]

[Small Truck: 159.999 bronze coins]

The Ritter Motor Company store customers came across the two new models being sold.

Some of the new vehicles produced by the Ritter Motor Company were already driving around the city this morning, replacing the traditional carriages of the Frost and Becker families, the chosen ones.

Each of these two families had obtained a model of each of these new vehicles and was already using them to transport resources within Peters City.

These two families worked in various sectors of the local economy, in particular mining. So both had materials to be delivered around the city and used these vehicles from the beginning of the day to participate in their deliveries.

Many citizens had already seen these models and sought information concerning these great vehicles.

Just such a group of people interested in the second of these vehicles were evaluating the small truck at this moment.

"Wow! 160,000 bronze coins is no small thing but huge!"

"Yeah, check this out. Its cab is 2.5 meters high! It must be amazing to drive one of them." Someone who had experienced driving cars said this, full of expectation.

"It's more expensive than a wagon, but from what I've heard, it can carry twice as many resources and much faster."

"Plus, it has this amazing design..."

Several people crowded around to see the two new vehicles, with some local nobles already placing their orders, not accepting to be left behind in local progress.

Soon independent animal-powered vehicles would dominate this province. So everyone wanted to get their models as soon as possible so as not to be left behind in the race for development.

Because of this, more than 100 vehicles, counting the two types launched on this day, were ordered in the first part of the day.

Amidst the orders and constant inflow of coins at the Ritter Motor Company store, a customer asked one of the employees.

"I heard from Lothur once that he would produce vehicles to help farmers on the plantation... Can you tell me if this will happen?" A woman this young man had met in Lewerenz asked, surprising that employee.

"About that..."