The Xinfei Merchant Guild's goals?
Some of the reporters below looked slightly puzzled, while others perked up.
This topic could be broad or narrow, depending entirely on what Xu Yi had to say.
"Many people may think there's no need to discuss or explain the goals of our Xinfei Merchant Guild. After all, we're only a merchant guild, and naturally, a merchant guild's goal is to make money. Yes, I admit that making money was indeed my original intention in founding the Xinfei Merchant Guild. Even now, I've always emphasized that I'm a businessman."
The reporters below could not help bursting into laughter.
How to define Xu Yi's identity had long been a rather controversial topic on the Sains Continent.
At first, neither Xu Yi nor the Xinfei Merchant Guild had been particularly well known, so naturally, no one had cared what his identity was.
But later, as the Xinfei Merchant Guild gradually gained some recognition, people discovered that its president, Xu Yi, was actually a fairly capable mage himself.
When Xu Yi's mage rank had still been relatively low, a few people had merely lamented that a noble mage like him had gone into running a merchant guild. They felt he was lowering his status and thought it a pity.
But as Xu Yi's magical talent gradually emerged and his abilities improved rapidly, allowing him to become an Advanced Mage within just a few years, then rise to Great Mage in his early thirties, the controversy over his identity immediately grew much fiercer.
The Mages' Guild and the other mages on the continent generally believed that, as a powerful Great Mage, Xu Yi was naturally a mage first. His identity as a businessman was merely secondary.
Mages had always looked down on merchants, so many people considered this judgment