To Xu Yi, discovering gnomes or elves on the Demoncloud Continent was entirely within expectations. Neither was particularly surprising.
After all, a year had passed since Cassandra's sudden arrival the previous year. Throughout that time, Xu Yi had received all kinds of reports about the Demoncloud Continent from the Xinfei Merchant Guild's exploration fleet, so it hardly felt unfamiliar to him.
Besides, sending representatives of the Demoncloud Continent's elves and gnomes to the Sains Continent with the Xinfei Merchant Guild's fleet had been Xu Yi's idea in the first place. Naturally, their arrival came as no surprise to him.
But for everyone else on the Sains Continent who knew nothing of this, it was an entirely different matter.
On October 11, year 3800 of the continent calendar, an otherwise ordinary day, a piece of news spread rapidly across the entire Sains Continent, drawing the attention of humans and all the other races alike.
The Bunta Daily announced in its front-page headline that the Xinfei Merchant Guild would hold a press conference to release a series of details about the new continent discovered the previous year.
That news alone was nothing extraordinary. What truly caught everyone's attention was the Xinfei Merchant Guild's accompanying announcement that visitors from the Demoncloud Continent had already arrived on the Sains Continent and would make their official appearance at the press conference.
Around the same time the previous year, the Xinfei Merchant Guild had publicly confirmed the existence of both a new continent and the legendary dragon race, shocking the entire continent.
Now the Xinfei Merchant Guild had announced that visitors from the Demoncloud Continent had actually arrived on the Sains Continent, leaving people even more astonished.
People might previously have harbored some doubts about the new continent's existence, since the Xinfei Merchant Guild had never