The third matter concerned a country east of the Candel Empire called the Dero Kingdom.
The country bore that name because more than ninety percent of its people were Dero.
This gave the Dero Kingdom an exceptionally strong sense of cohesion and unity. Although its national strength was unremarkable, it was a kingdom that few other countries in the Eastern Continent dared provoke.
When the Xinfei Merchant Guild first began promoting the magic industry sector in the Dero Kingdom, everything proceeded normally and smoothly.
During the Xinfei Merchant Guild's regular Magic Industry Standard Rating last year, the Dero Kingdom's rapid development in the magic industry sector had earned it a Level Three Standard rating, placing it among the leaders on the Sains Continent.
Accordingly, the Xinfei Merchant Guild had transferred some military magic machinery technology to the Dero Kingdom under their agreement and sold it a number of mid- and high-end military magic machines, greatly boosting its military strength.
Perhaps this was precisely what had given the Dero Kingdom confidence.
Last autumn, the Dero Kingdom suddenly invaded two neighboring countries, the Provence Kingdom and the Safina Duchy, and won an overwhelming victory. In just three months, it completely annexed the Safina Kingdom and a full province of the Provence Kingdom, shocking the major nations of the eastern Sains Continent.
These two successful invasions by the Dero Kingdom shocked the other countries while also serving as a warning.
Clearly, the Dero Kingdom's strength had once been merely average. Yet after becoming a strategic partner of the Xinfei Merchant Guild, it had achieved such a terrifying improvement in only a few years, rising to become a military power in the eastern Sains Continent.
If the other countries did not want to suffer the same fate as the Safina Duchy and the Provence