After Ankato and Kakalor left, Xu Yi pulled a stack of documents from his desk and began reading through them one by one.
These documents were some of the reports submitted over the past few months by the various guilds under the Xinfei Merchant Guild. Their contents varied, but every one of them mentioned a single name-the Chimera Chamber of Commerce.
For example, two and a half months earlier, the Xinfei Engineering Magic Machinery Guild had received a Cooperation Agreement from the Chimera Chamber of Commerce, inviting it to develop a batch of Engineering Magic Machinery specifically for the chamber's mines in several countries.
This had originally seemed like a perfectly ordinary invitation to cooperate. Before the Xinfei Engineering Magic Machinery Guild became independent, it had worked with many mining-related merchant guilds on projects of this kind.
Normally, the Xinfei Engineering Magic Machinery Guild would conduct on-site inspections based on its partner's requirements to determine what the final Engineering Magic Machinery should look like. This time, however, the Chimera Chamber of Commerce had simply specified four types of Engineering Magic Machinery for the guild to develop and manufacture.
The Chimera Chamber of Commerce had even provided detailed blueprints and extensive specifications for these four types of Engineering Magic Machinery, along with strict requirements, leaving the Xinfei Engineering Magic Machinery Guild little room for its own research and design.
Such development tasks were not particularly difficult in practice, but because they offered so little room for research, the Xinfei Engineering Magic Machinery Guild rarely took them on.
Moreover, since the Cooperation Agreement had come from the Chimera Chamber of Commerce, the uncertain head of the Xinfei Engineering Magic Machinery Guild had approached Xu Yi at the time to ask for his opinion.
Xu Yi had handled it much as he had