The Servini Merchant Guild

Lord Kamadu looked at the application in his hands with a decidedly strange expression.

It was an application to establish a new merchant guild in Bunta City.

Normally, such a routine application would never trouble him, the City Lord, for a personal review.

But this application was anything but routine.

First, while every merchant guild in Bunta City apart from those ten was moving away, someone had come to apply to establish a new one. That alone was unusual.

Even more unusual was the name written plainly at the bottom of the application: the Servini Merchant Guild.

Lord Kamadu knew perfectly well that this so-called Servini Merchant Guild was, in fact, a merchant guild established with Princess Royal Servini's backing.

About a month earlier, Princess Royal Servini had suddenly arrived in Bunta City without concealing her movements. Following customary protocol, Lord Kamadu had hosted a banquet for her party on behalf of the City Lord's Manor.

During the banquet, Princess Royal Servini had told Lord Kamadu that she might want to establish a merchant guild herself.

At the time, Lord Kamadu had thought she was merely joking.

Although all the nobles in the kingdom disregarded the Nobles' Council's regulations to some extent and took part in commercial activities, Princess Royal Servini had always maintained strict standards for herself and never truly become involved.

Even when she had enjoyed such close ties with the Xinfei Merchant Guild and Xu Yi, no one had ever heard of her receiving any tangible benefits from the Xinfei Merchant Guild.

Yet now Princess Royal Servini had come along and said she wanted to establish a merchant guild herself? How was that possible?

But the application now lying before Lord Kamadu told him in no uncertain terms that this was no joke.

Moreover, the guild was