A week later, when Marquis Southgate left the Lampari Kingdom, Great Mage Ferguson departed as well, carrying a proposal Xu Yi had personally written for submission to the Mainland Mages' Guild Headquarters.
Although the proposal was the product of discussions between Xu Yi and Great Mage Ferguson over the past few days, in reality, Xu Yi had done most of the talking while Great Mage Ferguson merely listened.
After spending this time with Xu Yi, Great Mage Ferguson had to admit that he fell far short of the Xinfei Merchant Guild's president when it came to overall planning, especially planning involving business. Many of his suggestions were easily rejected by Xu Yi, yet Ferguson found himself wholeheartedly agreeing with those rejections and feeling that his own suggestions had been too hasty.
The finalized proposal focused primarily on how to improve living conditions for low-rank mages throughout the Sains Continent.
The first part of Xu Yi's proposed solution was for the Mages' Guild to actively promote the positive effects of magic industry, helping the continent's mages understand what sort of work they could undertake by joining merchant guilds that manufactured magic machinery, such as the Xinfei Merchant Guild. This would encourage them to put aside their unnecessary pride as mages and choose to join magic machinery merchant guilds.
The Xinfei Merchant Guild could then vigorously promote the development of magic industry, bringing more merchant guilds involved in the field into existence across the continent and creating more jobs that even low-rank mages could perform.
Of course, there were limits to this.
Taking the Xinfei Merchant Guild as an example, although most of the mages responsible for laying out magic arrays were between the third and fifth levels, that did not mean just any low-rank mage within that range could do the