Bang!
Ankato slammed his palm onto the table, his face furious, and growled, "This is a conspiracy against our guild!"
Everyone else in the conference room turned to him. After a moment, Quiltoras, the human currently serving as executive president of the Xinfei Heavy Magic Machinery Merchant Guild, known as Xinfei Heavy Machinery for short, shook his head with a bitter smile. "Ankato, we all know this must be a conspiracy cooked up by the Candel Empire specifically to target our Xinfei Merchant Guild. The question is... how do we respond?"
Sitting beside Quiltoras was Rosodar, the elf currently serving as executive president of Xinfei Energy.
If the Xinfei Household Magic Machinery Merchant Guild-Xinfei Household Machinery for short-led by Ankato had suffered the greatest impact from this incident, then Xinfei Energy, led by Rosodar, came next.
According to the investigation report from the Northern Province Governor's Mansion in the Candel Empire, the mass loss of consciousness had ultimately been caused by the Mana Supply Station and Remote Magic Transmission Network built in the town.
And Xinfei Energy had been responsible for building them.
As a result, since the incident broke out, Rosodar had been under almost as much pressure as Ankato.
After hearing Quiltoras's words, Rosodar frowned in thought, then asked Ankato, "Ankato, have you investigated the Mana Air Compressor Modules in those Lituo Magic Air Conditioners? Did your tests uncover any problems?"
"Problems, my ass!" Ankato snorted angrily. "The Candel Empire claimed those Magic Air Conditioners caused such a serious problem that they needed to collect them all and study them themselves to prevent another incident. They wouldn't even let the people I sent touch them. How were we supposed to investigate?"
Rosodar shook his head. "I don't believe you did nothing."
Ankato pursed his lips and sighed. "I