Great Mage Camilla watched Great Mage Truchi disappear into the darkness outside the residence, then sighed softly and shook her head.
"I've known Truchi for so many years, yet only today did I learn that he came from Karasga Island and bore the burden of supporting everyone on the island. It really is..."
Watching Great Mage Camilla trail off, Xu Yi thought that even someone as conservative as she was probably would not approve of Great Mage Truchi's methods.
Wanting to improve the lives of the people back home was not wrong in itself, but in Xu Yi's eyes, Great Mage Truchi's approach of simply giving them gold coins was utterly misguided, even somewhat naive and childish.
Xu Yi understood one thing very well: to change someone's life, the first step was to change their outlook. Giving them money might help for a while, but as a way of changing their circumstances at the root, it was the worst possible approach.
Thus, after a lengthy, in-depth conversation with Great Mage Truchi, Xu Yi firmly rejected his idea of receiving forty or fifty thousand gold coins a year directly from him.
Although Great Mage Truchi himself was indeed worth forty or fifty thousand gold coins to Xu Yi, perhaps even more, Xu Yi was willing to pay that money to him, but not to have it passed on to the people of Karasga Island, whom he considered lazy freeloaders.
Great Mage Truchi, however, made it clear that as long as Xu Yi could help him solve this problem, he would gladly work for the Xinfei Merchant Guild without a single coin in annual pay. If Xu Yi could not, he would have to seek help elsewhere.
Xu Yi naturally could not let this chance to recruit a Great Mage slip away.