The operation carried out jointly by the Xinfei Merchant Guild and Princess Royal Servini to clear out the Orc Tribe in the Black Rice Wasteland attracted little attention within the Lampari Kingdom.
Even the Bunta Daily and the Lampari Weekly, which always paid particular attention to the Xinfei Merchant Guild and Princess Royal Servini, made no mention of it at Xu Yi's request.
The situation within the Lampari Kingdom, however, was anything but calm.
Because the Xinfei Merchant Guild had unilaterally ended its cooperation with the ten merchant guilds designated by the Magic Industry Administration, the administration ruled that it had breached their agreement first and revoked its right to produce any magic machinery within the kingdom.
To everyone's surprise, the Xinfei Merchant Guild expressed no objection to this ruling.
Within half a month of the ruling, the Xinfei Merchant Guild closed its production bases and factory workshops across six cities in the Lampari Kingdom, one after another, completely halting its production of magic machinery.
The only facilities left operating were the Product Service Centers the Xinfei Merchant Guild had established in many cities, which continued to provide after-sales service to customers who had bought Xinfei magic machinery.
As for its other operations, all that remained were a branch of the Xinfei Merchant Guild Magic Research Institute and a division of the Magic Machine Tool Research Center, both relocated from Falling Rain Valley to Sankton Manor.
These two facilities currently only researched improvements and upgrades to the various kinds of magic machinery the Xinfei Merchant Guild had already developed. They neither developed new products nor actually produced any magic machinery, so they were not subject to the Magic Industry Administration's ruling.
Apart from these, the Xinfei Merchant Guild's only factory workshop still operating normally was the Fruit Canning Factory in