As the Lampari Kingdom's army crushed the formidable defensive line built by the Malo Empire and advanced into its interior, its march striking fear into countless people across the continent, a very different scene unfolded at the Xinfei Merchant Guild's Main Base in the Stantin Duchy.
Although the Xinfei Merchant Guild was the central player in one of the two camps, the turmoil outside and the tense fighting across the continent seemed to have little effect on its Main Base.
With the New Year approaching, the Xinfei Merchant Guild had announced its holiday break more than a week beforehand, as usual. The Main Base was therefore much less busy than it normally was, and even the roar of magic machine tools in the factory workshops had grown considerably quieter.
But that did not mean the Xinfei Merchant Guild had truly remained unaffected.
As the central player in its camp, the Xinfei Merchant Guild supplied its partner nations with all kinds of military magic machinery, helping them defeat attacks from the Two Great Empires' camp. It was also the primary factor behind the Lampari Kingdom's successful counterattack and its current ability to invade the Malo Empire. Without question, the guild played the most crucial role in this war that had swept across the entire continent.
Supplying the Lampari Kingdom alone with enough military magic machinery and ammunition had required the Xinfei Merchant Guild to build an entirely new production base dedicated to military magic machinery the previous year.
The new base had been completed early that year. As conditions on the Sains Continent deteriorated and ultimately erupted into full-scale war, it had operated at full capacity throughout the second half of the year, relentlessly manufacturing all kinds of military magic machinery.
It was precisely thanks to Xu Yi's extraordinary foresight two