Amid the flood of eye-catching news surrounding the Candel Empire and the Xinfei Merchant Guild, one announcement drew relatively little attention: the Otulus Array Design Guild, a fairly well-known guild in the Candel Empire's Enzoli Province, had announced that it would work with the Xinfei Merchant Guild to design a device for its magic machinery that could prevent mana signals from leaking out.
After all, the Xinfei Merchant Guild had always worked with numerous guilds involved in the magic industry sector. Adding one more hardly counted as anything noteworthy.
By comparison, people were naturally far more interested in the conflicting accounts, arguments, and even clashes between the Xinfei Merchant Guild and the Candel Empire over the Qidanlu Town incident.
The Candel Empire maintained that the Qidanlu Town incident had been caused by special mana fluctuations within magic air conditioners interacting with remote magic transmission technology. The Xinfei Merchant Guild rejected that explanation outright, declaring that it was merely the Candel Empire's unsupported claim and deserved no credence.
The Xinfei Merchant Guild also accused the Candel Empire of hastily disposing of the magic air conditioners and the people involved in the Qidanlu Town incident. This had prevented any thorough investigation, made more conclusive findings impossible, and ruled out a detailed data analysis of the incident's causes, leaving no way to determine what had actually happened.
Although none of the Xinfei Merchant Guild's announcements directly called the incident a conspiracy by the Candel Empire, anyone who had followed the affair and read both sides' reports could easily come away with that impression.
That was because the Xinfei Merchant Guild conducted its own experiments, providing exceptionally detailed data analyses and deductions based on the underlying principles to show people exactly which aspects of the incident did not make sense.
The Candel Empire, meanwhile,