"Marquis Descartes, we meet again." Count Didamans regarded Marquis Descartes with a smile full of meaning.
Marquis Descartes could only smile bitterly to himself. After greeting Count Didamans, he turned straight to Xu Yi.
"President Xu, I have come on behalf of the empire with absolute sincerity. If your Xinfei Merchant Guild or the Rulson Kingdom has any conditions, please put them forward. We can all sit down and discuss them properly, even if there are..."
Xu Yi raised a hand to interrupt him, then nodded to Miss Soriel beside him.
Miss Soriel took a document from the bag she carried and handed it directly to Marquis Descartes.
"These are the ceasefire terms our guild proposes," Xu Yi explained, glancing at Marquis Descartes, who was staring at the document in a daze.
Marquis Descartes accepted it, but barely glanced at the first page before exclaiming, "This is impossible!"
The opening clause of this Ceasefire Agreement actually demanded that the Candel Empire open itself completely to the Xinfei Merchant Guild, with no right to interfere in any of the guild's economic activities within the empire or exercise any jurisdiction over them.
If the Candel Empire agreed to this condition, it would be tantamount to letting a monster into its territory.
Given the Xinfei Merchant Guild's current commercial strength and potential for growth, Marquis Descartes could easily foresee that, if the Candel Empire really did this, the guild would need very little time to gain almost complete control over virtually every industry related to magic industry within the empire.
On the Sains Continent today, the magic industry sector was crucial to every nation.
If the Xinfei Merchant Guild controlled the magic industry sector, that would be almost equivalent to controlling the Candel Empire itself.
How could the Candel Empire possibly accept such