The war between the Candel Empire and the Mana Magical Kingdom continued.
Although the Candel Empire held the greater advantage on the battlefield, it could not simply destroy the Mana Magical Kingdom in a single war, given that the kingdom's national strength was second only to the Two Great Empires. How long the war would last and how it would ultimately turn out also depended on what the Candel Empire hoped to achieve.
Most of the other countries on the Sains Continent watched from the sidelines, while many people waited for the Xinfei Merchant Guild to reveal its true stance.
No one believed that the Xinfei Merchant Guild would really ignore the war between the two countries completely, as its official statement claimed.
If it did, that would mean abandoning the considerable influence it had built over the continent's major countries during the past decade or so, which would be extremely detrimental to the guild itself.
Even though the attitude the Xinfei Merchant Guild-and President Xu Yi in particular-had shown this time was somewhat ambiguous, people still hoped to see how the guild would actually respond.
And so, amid countless people's expectations, the Xinfei Merchant Guild finally made a move.
Yet its response was nothing like anyone had expected. Rather than directly entering the war between the Candel Empire and the Mana Magical Kingdom, the Xinfei Merchant Guild first issued an official announcement expressing its desire to protect civilians suffering in the war. It then organized a sizable relief team and sent it straight into the border region where the two countries were fighting.
The decision was so strange that no one could make sense of it.
If the Xinfei Merchant Guild truly wanted to intervene in the war, why not simply issue a warning to both sides, or even