For these five young people, who had only recently graduated from their academies and entered society, eager to prove themselves, finding a respectable, well-paid job was undoubtedly essential.
Researching magic machinery at the Xinfei Merchant Guild not only sounded respectable, but also paid quite well. Its only drawback was that the Xinfei Merchant Guild could not yet be considered a truly major merchant guild and had little reputation.
But for these five young people, who could hardly be called magical geniuses, those terms were already good enough.
And so, after a two-day assessment, all five young people signed employment contracts with the Xinfei Merchant Guild, becoming five first-grade researchers at its Magic Research Institute.
Just like Avita and Akali when they first joined the Xinfei Merchant Guild, the five of them could initially receive only a base salary of fifteen gold coins a month.
Under the rules, however, after six months of work, provided there were no problems, they would automatically advance to second-grade researchers and receive the corresponding salary of twenty-five gold coins.
For these five young people, this might have been a simple career choice, neither complicated nor particularly difficult. But for Xu Yi and the Xinfei Merchant Guild, their arrival held tremendous significance.
Before these five joined, the only official researchers at the Xinfei Merchant Guild's Magic Research Institute were Stille, Avita, Akali, Vena, and Sanchelli, who currently focused solely on researching magic array programming and barely participated in specific design research. Even including Xu Yi, their research team was very thin, forcing him to hand much of their research work over to Great Mage Camilla's Magic Tower.
This situation was clearly unsuitable. Quite apart from the considerable funds the Xinfei Merchant Guild had to invest to secure research assistance from Camilla's Magic Tower, its lack of