Of course, withholding support from Moon Shadow Cloth's territory in the southwestern Sark Kingdom was a joke. After acquiring the territory, the Moon Shadow Tribe had taken just one month to turn what had been entirely wasteland into a flourishing expanse of lush vegetation.
Drawing on the Elf Race's special understanding of plants, the Moon Shadow Tribe had planted many unusual flowers and other plants there, making the territory its main source of raw materials for fertilizer production.
Fertilizer was now not only a major source of income for the Moon Shadow Tribe, but also a vital agricultural resource for the surrounding countries. If the Xinfei Merchant Guild suddenly withdrew its support for the territory, the Moon Shadow Tribe would certainly be displeased, and the neighboring countries would probably be the first to object.
Moreover, fertilizer could be considered an important part of the civilian magic industry. To Xu Yi, it was a crucial means of drawing everyone's attention away from military magic machinery and back toward civilian magic machinery. How could he casually allow anything to go wrong with it?
After explaining to Twisti exactly how to prepare the two financial reports separating military magic machinery from civilian magic machinery, Xu Yi left his office, intending to visit the Magic Research Institute.
To draw more attention to civilian magic machinery, he would need something that could catch people's eyes.
Over the past two years, the Xinfei Merchant Guild had focused mainly on refining and improving the quality and performance of its existing household magic machinery, so there had been no particularly eye-catching breakthroughs.
Now that Xu Yi wanted to draw people's attention back, he would have to put some effort into that.
Just after leaving the Xinfei Merchant Guild's office building, Xu Yi was about to get into his