A letter signed "Redcloud Merchant Guild" reached Xu Yi.
Normally, a letter of an official nature sent by another merchant guild would never have reached him.
Although he was the president of the Xinfei Merchant Guild, he had long since stopped handling most of its routine business.
Most letters like this were handed to the relevant managers within the guild, without even troubling Chief Executive Officer Glerus.
This time, however, the Mainland Mages' Guild was the actual power behind the Redcloud Merchant Guild, so his subordinates had not dared handle it on their own and had passed it to Xu Yi.
Yet Xu Yi merely skimmed the contents before tossing the letter aside, paying it no further attention.
The letter came from the Redcloud Merchant Guild and seemed to convey the wishes of the Mages' Guild, but in fact, it was expressing the wishes of the Mana Magical Kingdom.
Since the Xinfei Merchant Guild had announced its complete withdrawal from the Mana Magical Kingdom, any direct contact from the kingdom would certainly be ignored. Having the Mages' Guild, its most important supporter, relay the message was only natural.
The letter actually mentioned just one matter: the Redcloud Merchant Guild hoped to strengthen its joint research cooperation with the Xinfei Merchant Guild on farmland magic machinery. It also wished to purchase more advanced farmland magic machinery technology from the Xinfei Merchant Guild again and expressed its willingness to pay a sufficient price.
At first glance, there was nothing unusual about the letter.
Hundreds, if not a thousand, merchant guilds had made similar requests for cooperation with the Xinfei Merchant Guild. One more from the Redcloud Merchant Guild was hardly remarkable.
In reality, however, Xu Yi knew perfectly well that the Redcloud Merchant Guild-or rather, the Mages' Guild-was stepping forward on behalf