Xu Yi had been absent from the Sains Continent for a long time.
Occasional scraps of news from the Demoncloud Continent still arrived, carrying bits of information about Xu Yi. But with more than ten thousand kilometers separating the two continents, everyone felt as though those events had taken place in another world.
As time passed, Xu Yi gradually faded from the minds of the people on the Sains Continent.
Then, two years after Xu Yi left the Sains Continent, his wife Stille resigned as president of the New Moon Merchant Guild and vanished from public view as well.
Rumor had it that after retiring, Stille had moved to a small island in the Endless Sea with Xu Yi's other wives, living a leisurely life in seclusion and taking little interest in worldly affairs.
And so Stille, too, began to fade from people's minds.
Of course, that did not mean the marks the two of them had left on the Sains Continent had disappeared.
Under Freya's leadership, the Xinfei Merchant Guild had continued to flourish over the years. It maintained absolute dominance in many areas of the magic industry sector and wielded tremendous influence over every nation on the Sains Continent.
The New Moon Merchant Guild had also grown rapidly.
As costs continued to fall, the price of household Mana Illusion Projectors dropped steadily as well. The most basic model now cost only eighteen gold coins.
As a result, households throughout the Sains Continent now considered buying a Mana Illusion Projector a standard necessity.
Any family without even a single Mana Illusion Projector would be mocked by their neighbors. Even the young men in the household would have trouble marrying the girls they loved because of it.
Once Mana Illusion Projectors became commonplace in homes, the mana illusion network that