Yet more than his anger and dissatisfaction at the West-Garrison Army's lack of vigilance, Xu Yi was concerned about the reason behind the Sark Kingdom's operation.
The massacre of five orc tribes naturally had an enormous impact on the orcs of the Black Rice Wasteland, but Xu Yi could not see what the Sark Kingdom stood to gain.
The Sark Kingdom could not possibly have risked a direct battle with the West-Garrison Army and forced its way through defensive fortifications into the Black Rice Wasteland just to slaughter five orc tribes that had no bearing on it, simply because it had nothing better to do.
Yet Xu Yi had never been able to understand the purpose of this operation.
Judging purely by the outcome, aside from the orc tribes, the Xinfei Merchant Guild had suffered the greatest losses.
The incident had left the more than ten thousand orc workers employed by the Xinfei Merchant Guild deeply unsettled, seriously affecting their efficiency and causing the guild's production capacity to drop somewhat over the past few days.
But Xu Yi did not believe the Xinfei Merchant Guild warranted so much attention from the Sark Kingdom that it would take such an enormous risk merely to strike a blow against the guild.
There was therefore another, more plausible explanation: the Sark Kingdom had tried to use this operation to assess the strength and effectiveness of the West-Garrison Army's defenses in the Black Rice Wasteland.
Perhaps the Sark Kingdom would invade through the Black Rice Wasteland in the future, then attack the Lampari Kingdom from the west.
If that was what the Sark Kingdom had in mind, however, Xu Yi considered it rather fanciful.
Since Servini had taken the throne, the Lampari Kingdom had worked closely with the Xinfei Merchant Guild. In less than