Three days later, the Saal Kingdom officially announced that the Magic Machinery Research Institute under the Sark Kingdom had overcome every technical obstacle involved in Mana Cannons and successfully developed one.
The news spread through several neighboring countries at a speed no one could have imagined, then traveled just as swiftly to several more distant countries on the continent.
Once the news broke, almost the entire continent was thrown into an uproar.
Ever since the results of the two battles between the Rulson Kingdom and the Candel Empire became known, nearly every country on the continent had recognized the power and importance of Military Magic Machinery. The two great empires had joined the race to acquire it without hesitation.
Yet only the Xinfei Merchant Guild possessed the expertise to produce Military Magic Machinery. No other individual or power could manufacture it independently, so even the Candel Empire and the Malo Empire had been forced to swallow their pride and approach the Xinfei Merchant Guild for cooperation.
The smaller countries were even more desperate to acquire Military Magic Machinery, but whether they could obtain it depended entirely on the Xinfei Merchant Guild's favor.
At a time like this, news that another country could manufacture Military Magic Machinery-and relatively advanced Mana Cannons, at that-was a tremendous boost to every country and power on the continent hoping to acquire it.
Although the Sark Kingdom had only released an announcement so far, and had merely claimed to have successfully developed one advanced type of Military Magic Machinery, the Mana Cannon, most countries and powers cared far more about what lay behind that announcement.
It meant that Military Magic Machinery was no longer exclusive to the Xinfei Merchant Guild!
The Sark Kingdom soon issued another announcement, stating that it would select a date to hold