Everyone in the conference room was startled.
Chief Executive Officer Glerus frowned and said gravely, "Director Sebas, please don't be alarmist. Our guild has invested heavily in the war over the past two years, putting considerable pressure on our finances, but saying that this will drive us into bankruptcy is going too far."
"Exactly. Our guild isn't stupid enough to give those countries aid for nothing, is it? Don't forget, we've secured plenty of mineral resources from them," agreed Li Thorpe, the dwarf president of the Xinfei Mining Merchant Guild. "We haven't had time to extract those minerals yet, but they'll only become more valuable if we leave them there. We're guaranteed to profit."
"It's not just mineral resources," Ankato, president of the Xinfei Household Magic Machinery Merchant Guild, added. "Once we win this war, we can force the two great empires and those other countries to lower the high tariffs they've deliberately imposed on us. Even setting everything else aside, that alone will earn us a fortune. Forget a mere few tens of millions of gold coins. Our household magic machinery division alone could potentially make over a hundred million gold coins in annual profit. Would you believe that?"
"Hey, you've all been talking this whole time, but you've forgotten the most important thing. We didn't insist on fighting this war. Those bastards from the two great empires forced us into it! If we don't help those countries, are we supposed to let the two great empires come knocking and wipe us out?"
Those words instantly plunged the entire conference room back into silence.
Indeed, given the Xinfei Merchant Guild's previous rapid growth, it would not have taken long for its products to sweep through every country on the continent.
With the tremendous convenience offered by its various types