The Xinfei Merchant Guild's response was... no response at all.
At least to outsiders, the Xinfei Merchant Guild clearly ought to have taken a series of measures to address the departure of someone as important as Kennard. Only then could it ensure that the guild would not suffer too greatly.
Yet after Kennard's press conference, the Xinfei Merchant Guild made no special moves. It merely announced several upcoming joint projects with the Morningstar Magic Machinery Merchant Guild that Kennard had founded. Everything else continued as usual.
The various subsidiary guilds under the Xinfei Merchant Guild continued their production and sales in orderly fashion. Their products remained immensely popular and sold like hotcakes across the Sains Continent.
As for the Xinfei Merchant Guild itself, Xu Yi merely announced that a previously little-known man named Glerus would take over Kennard's work and serve as the guild's second chief executive officer. There were no other noteworthy changes.
This surprised many people.
Kennard's importance to the Xinfei Merchant Guild went without saying. With his sudden departure, it was simply impossible for the guild to remain completely unaffected.
Perhaps... the effects were not apparent yet, but would become clear later?
Those who entertained this speculation began watching the Xinfei Merchant Guild even more closely.
In early October, the Chimera Chamber of Commerce suddenly sent a cooperation agreement to the Xinfei Household Magic Machinery Merchant Guild and the Xinfei Communications Guild. It proposed that the three jointly invest in implementing, on a large scale throughout the Candel Empire's Southwestern Province, the household magic machinery network installation plan that the Xinfei Household Magic Machinery Merchant Guild had proposed three years earlier.
The plan involved connecting all Xinfei Household Magic Machinery to the magic communication network laid by the Xinfei Communications Guild, creating a household magic machinery network