The trip to the Candel Empire had yielded gains for all the chambers of commerce from the Lampari Kingdom.
Not only had the Candel merchants in Canberra City snapped up every last item they brought, but representatives of the major chambers of commerce had also signed investment agreements with the Southwestern Province Governor's Office.
Under the plans laid out in those agreements, the chambers of commerce would enter the Candel Empire's Southwestern Province over the next six months to select sites and prepare to invest in building factories of various kinds.
This was the first tentative collaboration between the Lampari Kingdom and the Candel Empire in the magic industry. Duke Mogudu, speaking on behalf of the Candel Empire's government, explicitly stated that if things went smoothly, they would deepen their cooperation and bring in more chambers of commerce involved in magic machinery from the Lampari Kingdom. They might even cooperate in other fields.
Naturally, this was an outcome both the Lampari Kingdom and the Candel Empire were very eager to see.
By introducing the magic industry, the Candel Empire hoped to gain a thorough understanding of this emerging field, ultimately allowing it to independently research, master, and manufacture military magic machinery.
For the Lampari Kingdom, meanwhile, entering the Candel Empire's enormous market was a dream come true.
After so many years of development, the Lampari Kingdom's domestic market was approaching saturation. Naturally, it needed new sources of profit growth.
The benefits to the Lampari Kingdom of opening up the vast markets within the Candel Empire and the Malo Empire—the Two Great Empires—at this point were easy to imagine.
As for the Xinfei Merchant Guild, which Xu Yi represented, the tangible benefits it had gained on this trip did not seem particularly substantial.
Since the Xinfei Merchant Guild was now nominally