Intelligence about the major merchant guilds of the Candel Empire buying up large numbers of magic industry-related merchant guilds in the Lampari Kingdom had also been laid before Servini.
Compared with the report Baron Haines had sent Xu Yi, however, the one in Servini's hands was several times thicker and far more detailed.
This was already Servini's third careful reading of the report, yet she still read very slowly, almost word by word.
She knew all too well how important this matter was to the Lampari Kingdom. The slightest mishandling could wipe out every small advantage the kingdom had worked so hard to gain over the years.
Had the choice been entirely hers, she would have liked to use the kingdom's authority to intervene in these transactions and prevent the Candel Empire's major merchant guilds from swallowing up the magic industry-related guilds that the Lampari Kingdom had painstakingly developed.
That would severely undermine the foundations of the Lampari Kingdom's magic industry, which had only just begun to take shape, and have serious repercussions for the entire kingdom.
For instance, the major merchant guilds from the Candel Empire had already acquired seventeen magic industry-related guilds in the Lampari Kingdom, causing temporary shortages of many related industrial products.
Yesterday, a female official in the Royal Palace had wanted to purchase a new batch of metal washbasins to replenish their supplies, only to discover that they were actually out of stock in Anvilmar City.
This was the first time such a thing had happened since the Xinfei Merchant Guild invented the Magic Press specifically designed to stamp metal washbasins into different shapes.
Clearly, the acquisition of those seventeen merchant guilds had already had an impact on the Lampari Kingdom.
Yet Servini could not take the initiative and use the Royal Palace's authority to