Aside from the release and transfer of technical information on civilian magic machinery, the biggest draw was naturally the full set of policies on military magic machinery technology that Xu Yi announced on behalf of the Xinfei Merchant Guild at the Industry Forum.
When it came to military magic machinery technology, however, Xu Yi was nowhere near as generous as he had been with civilian magic machinery technology.
Under the strategic partnership plan the Xinfei Merchant Guild had established seven years earlier, the guild would only make military magic machinery technology available to countries that had signed a strategic Cooperation Agreement with it. Even then, access would be limited and granted in stages.
Only countries whose domestic magic industry sector had developed to a certain level and received an industrial system rating from the Xinfei Merchant Guild could obtain transfers of the corresponding military magic machinery technology.
At this Industry Forum, the Xinfei Merchant Guild announced that three countries had already met the standards for a level-three industrial system. The guild would grant these three countries access to a range of corresponding military magic machinery technologies, including individual-use Mana Cannons, mobile 75-millimeter Mana Cannons, and basic magic shield devices. It would also allocate them a share of the sales of certain mid- and high-end military magic machinery, helping them build modern armies centered around military magic machinery.
When announcing this news, the Xinfei Merchant Guild named only one of the countries-the Rulson Kingdom. The other two remained unnamed.
The Xinfei Merchant Guild stated that the other two countries had requested that their names not be made public for the time being, but this sparked all sorts of speculation among those who heard it.
Repeated demonstrations of strength had proven that traditional armies were utterly helpless against armies equipped with military