"If that's the reason, there's even less need to worry." Xu Yi smiled faintly, took a document from inside his clothes, and handed it over.
Elder Lysania accepted it in puzzlement. She opened it and leaned together with Elder Elusia to take a look, and both let out soft cries of surprise.
"President Xu, are you serious?" Elder Lysania looked up and asked Xu Yi in astonishment. "You're actually willing to transfer some military magic machinery technology to us?"
"Of course I'm serious." Xu Yi nodded. "Look, I've already signed the bottom of this transfer agreement myself. Once you sign your names, the agreement will officially take effect. Elder Elusia, Elder Lysania, read it carefully. If you're willing to accept it, why not sign it?"
Still finding it somewhat hard to believe, Elder Elusia and Elder Lysania picked up the "Military Magic Machinery Technology Transfer Agreement" and began reading it carefully.
It took them a full half hour to finish going through it in detail.
After another long stretch of thought, Elder Lysania finally cleared her throat and asked, "President Xu, this agreement only contains terms for your Xinfei Merchant Guild to transfer military magic machinery technology to us. It doesn't state what we should pay in return. Isn't that... rather strange?"
"That's because the price I need you to pay isn't suitable for putting in this agreement."
Xu Yi smiled faintly. Under the two elders' astonished gazes, he walked out of the treehouse and brought in Anise, who was still holding her child beside the Moonwell.
"Elder Elusia, according to our human customs, when a man marries a wife, he must give some money or goods to her family as betrothal gifts. After Anise married me, I never thought of this. That was an oversight on my part. Now