Servini firmly believed this, so even though she knew Xu Yi would certainly be angry when he found out, she had still chosen to develop military magic machinery in secret.
In fact, she had already harbored this idea more than ten years ago, when she had asked Xu Yi to let her take Teresa.
Over the years, the Lampari Kingdom had indeed made considerable progress in its secret development of military magic machinery.
Previously, the Lampari Kingdom had surpassed other countries in military strength, even outperforming the Two Great Empires, only because of the Xinfei Merchant Guild's support.
But now, even without the Xinfei Merchant Guild's support, the Lampari Kingdom could achieve formidable military strength through the military magic machinery it had developed itself.
Servini knew that the Two Great Empires and many other countries on the continent were also secretly developing military magic machinery. She could not be certain how advanced their machinery was, but she was quite confident that the Lampari Kingdom's research and development surpassed that of every other country.
That was because much of the military magic machinery the Lampari Kingdom was now developing had already far exceeded the machinery the Xinfei Merchant Guild had introduced ten years ago, both in technology and power.
Although it probably still fell short of the Xinfei Merchant Guild's current machinery, it was certainly well ahead of what other countries had.
After all, the Lampari Kingdom had been the first country on the Sains Continent to establish a magic industry sector, and the first to equip its forces with military magic machinery on a large scale and put it to use.
Its close cooperation with the Xinfei Merchant Guild had also given it access to a great deal of technology related to magic machinery, granting the Lampari Kingdom an exceptional