Candlelight Trading Firm

Initially conceptualized as a Lifestyle Player Guild, Horizon Alliance, Shi Feng would end up creating the **Candlelight Trading Firm**. The main focus of the firm is to groom all kinds of Lifestyle Players and produce items that can be sold at the various stores in the various empires and kingdoms.

> "A small spark may kindle a raging fire. Let’s call it the Candlelight Trading Firm" - Shi Feng.
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The first store was bought in chapter 490 when Shi Feng bought 2 plots of lands in White River City. The firm was originally managed by Melancholic Smile, before Youlan joined further in the story, and started to assist her.

## Store Locations

By chapter 913, the trading firm would have established 25 Shops, with White River City being the main branch, and the rest being branch shops established in 22 other cities By chapter 986, with Gentle Snow joining Zero Wing, the firm added 16 more plots of lands, 3 of which were in Black Dragon Empire.

* White River City (Main Branch)
	+ Promoted to a 2-star Shop . It turned into a 5-story building with a **simulation device** that could assist Lifestyle players with producing items.
	+ Promoted to a 3-star Shop . It has two basements, with the lowest one being the firm's underground warehouse. It is guarded by a Level 100, Tier 3 Fine-Gold Personal Guard.  There has 2,000 Lifestyle players working in the White River's branch.
	+ Promoted to a **4-star Shop** . The building was renovated to a 21-story building which was 100 meters tall and occupied 40% more land. There were 50 Special Workshops, 12 Basic Mediation Room, and 1 Research Workshop. The total renovation cost 155,000 Gold . The Mana density inside the shop is twice as dense as it was previously, which allows players to maintain calm and clear-headed.
		- Allows **upgrade** **five shops** from 2-star to 3-star status.
		- It has the **Shared Warehouse** function which allows one 4-star Shop and five other 3-star Shops to be connected. It allows for the transport of items and even up to 200 non-bag space items.
		- The **Research Workshop** is constructed with Magic Crystals and Mana Stones which causes the Mana density to be immensely high.
		- One of the reception room on the top floor has been modified with 379 pieces of Primal Void Stones and a Mana Gathering Magic Array. The Mana density in the room is immensely dense and is able to improve a player's mental strength by 20%.

* Star-Moon City
* Maple City
* Stone Forest City
* Zero Wing City
* Silverwing City
* Black Dragon Empire
	+ Black Dragon City (imperial capital)
		- Promoted one shop to a 3-star shop.
		- Has the Shared Warehouse function.
	+ Lake Heart City
	+ Emerald City
	+ Hidden Fog Town

* Purple Thorns Kingdom
	+ Glory Town

* Twin Towers Kingdom
	+ Twin Towers City (capital)
		- Promoted one shop to a 2-star shop.
		- Promoted one shop to a 3-star shop.
		- Has the Shared Warehouse function.
* Dark Night Empire
	+ Dark Night City (imperial capital)
		- Promoted one shop to a 3-star shop.
		- Has the Shared Warehouse function.
* Fairy Country
	+ Forest City

* Apocalypse Empire
	+ Apocalypse City (imperial capital)
		- Promoted one shop to a 3-star shop.
		- Has the Shared Warehouse function.
	+ Blue Bay City
		- Promoted one shop to a 3-star shop.
		- Has the Shared Warehouse function.

## Members

The players in the trading firm consist of a mix of both contract members and official members. All players are required to sign contracts, that include a clause that in order to leave the firm, they would be required to pay compensation fees for the designs they had learned.

There are a total of 20,000 Lifestyle Players working for the trading firm. Over 4,000 members had officially signed a contract to become internal members.  For internal members who have achieved an Advanced rank in their chosen profession, they will be promoted to official members in the firm. In order to be promoted to a core member, players would have to achieve a 30% success rate in the production of Advanced Lifestyle Designs.

As of chapter 1967, there were five additional Master Lifestyle players (2 Master Alchemist, 2 Master Forgers, and 1 Master Engineer), their names are not revealed.

### Members Benefits

Due to increased competition among Guilds for Advanced and Master rank Lifestyle players, the Candlelight Trading Firm started to offer wages to their players. Advanced Lifestyle players were entitled to 20,000 Credits per month and Master Lifestyle players were entitled to 100,000 Credits per month.

After the shop was promoted to 4-star rank and gained the new function, Research Workshop, it became the newest benefit to Master Lifestyle players in the firm. After the emergence of several major powers and adventurer alliances from the Otherworlds, Shi Feng got Melancholic Smile to readjust the firm's development:

* All members would have access to the Mediation Rooms for 10,000 GCPs per hour.
* All internal members would have access to the Research Workshop for 50,000 GCPs per half an hour. Core members would receive a 20% discount on the price.
* All members are allowed to purchase a private house in Stone Forest City located in the Cold Spring Canyon with their contribution points.

## Events

### First Candlelight's Auction

Items sold:

* Magic Whale Skin.
* 5 Thunder Pass.
* 50 personal houses.
* 10 slots to enter the Holy City of Titan.

### First Auction for Stone Forest City's Private Housing

A total of 2,000 units were put up for a month lease with the starting bid was 30,000 Credits. At the end of the auction, the lowest closing bid was 600,000 Credits, while the highest was 1,740,000 Credits.

### Second Auction for Stone Forest City's Private Housing

Due to the increased number of participants, players had to hold more than 500,000 Credits in order to participate in the auction.

* **First batch** - A total of 1,000 units were put up and each bid opened at 2,000,000 Credits, with the highest bid being 2,360,000 Credits.

* **Second batch** - A total of 1,000 units were put up with the highest bid being 2,570,000 Credits.

* **Third batch** - A total of 1,000 units were put up with the highest bid being 2,710,000 Credits.

* **Fourth batch** - A total of 1,000 units were put up with the highest bid being 2,820,000 Credits.

* **Fifth batch** - Another total of 1,000 units was put up.

## Prominent Products

* Crimson Sunset Set - Tier 2 Mana Set Equipment
	+ They were put up for auction and members of Zero Wing and the Zero Wing's Star-Moon Adventurer Alliance were allowed to participate. The starting bids were 30,000 Magic Crystals and 10,000 Gold.

## References

== List of References ==

1. ↑ Chapter 529
2. ↑ Chapter 530
3. ↑ Chapter 909
4. ↑ Chapter 2315
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 1834
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chapter 2349
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Chapter 2350
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Chapter 2355
9. ↑ Chapter 2356
10. ↑ Chapter 913
11. ↑ Chapter 2354
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Chapter 2182
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Chapter 2369
14. ↑ Chapter 2387
15. ↑ Chapter 1268
16. ↑ Chapter 2183
17. ↑ Chapter 2397