Three days later, a list was delivered to Xu Yi from the Lampari Kingdom's Royal Palace.
There were thirteen names on the list: thirteen of the presidents who had represented the seventeen merchant guilds Servini had previously summoned.
Looking at the row of thirteen names and the merchant guilds listed beside them, Xu Yi smiled in satisfaction and nodded slightly.
These people had originally owned small merchant guilds, or even just little shops. Yet they had possessed the courage and vision to enter the magic industry by purchasing magic machinery technology from the Xinfei Merchant Guild. In the end, they had grown their little businesses into enterprises with a foothold in the Lampari Kingdom, even attracting the attention of major merchant guilds in the Candel Empire, which had paid to acquire them. Their abilities were clearly exceptional.
Although four of them had chosen, for various reasons, to settle into a comfortable life, a full thirteen were still willing to take another shot. That was quite a high proportion.
In fact, the promising opportunity Servini had mentioned to the representatives of those seventeen merchant guilds had been proposed by Xu Yi himself.
The Candel Empire had sought to acquire magic machinery technology by buying those seventeen merchant guilds, then enter the magic industry and eventually reach into military magic machinery. It was undeniably a far-sighted approach.
Only by mastering the relevant technologies themselves would they have a chance to bring military magic machinery under their own control.
For a country as vast as the Candel Empire, even if the Xinfei Merchant Guild were willing to give it wholehearted support, the guild's current production capacity would fall far short of meeting its needs.
Besides, with the mentality of a great power like the Candel Empire, how could it possibly leave its fate