Smooth negotiations did not mean every outcome would necessarily be settled.
Judging by the progress of the negotiations underway within the Star Tower, the newly arrived Wizard Civilization would likely need several rounds of talks before it could reach a consensus with the Demon Subjugation Alliance on cooperation across various fields.
Still, the second meeting produced several proposals that lifted everyone's spirits.
For example, the Wizard Civilization Envoy Delegation led by Saine reached mutually beneficial cooperation agreements with the Demon Subjugation Alliance's three top-level civilizations in the trade of resources such as Energy Crystals, rare metals, and Soul Slaves.
As for sending troops to aid the Capricorn Empire, Saine also alluded to the matter during the negotiations.
This in turn drew an exceedingly enthusiastic response from Grand Duke Muridi.
Seeing Grand Duke Muridi's expression, one could imagine that even if the Wizard Civilization had asked this noble Grand Duke to sell himself, he would have nodded without the slightest hesitation.
The Capricorn Empire's pursuit of profit, and its utter indifference to gains and losses in matters such as "face," finally gave Saine a familiar sense of a technological civilization.
Everything else was hollow. To a technological civilization, only profit was real and tangible.
Saine eventually learned why the Capricorn Empire had managed to develop into a top-level technological civilization under an "imperial system."
The reason was simple: the Capricorn Royal Family were the greatest "capitalists" within this top-level civilization!
After several generations of capable figures had risen within the Capricorn Royal Family,
their control over the Capricorn Empire had extended into every facet of life.
They had even achieved an exaggerated degree of near-monopoly over more than eighty percent of the empire's industries!
The countless trillions of ordinary beings in the Capricorn Empire had been controlled by the royal family