After leaving the Lampari Kingdom's royal palace, Xu Yi could not help looking back and shaking his head helplessly.
Why had Servini insisted on taking Teresa away from him?
Apart from the meager spy training this young woman had received from the Sark Kingdom Military Department, the only value she still possessed, aside from her looks, was probably the knowledge of magic machinery she had picked up while working at the Xinfei Merchant Guild.
If Servini wanted to obtain that knowledge through her, there was simply no need.
Ever since he had begun to suspect Teresa, Xu Yi had kept Avita watching her closely. Later, he had even deliberately restricted the various documents she could access.
She did know some technical information that was relatively important to the Xinfei Merchant Guild, but she could accomplish nothing with it on her own. Besides, Xu Yi had instructed Avita to deliberately mix some false information into those documents. Even if someone else obtained them, they would only end up like the Sark Kingdom, with returns nowhere near proportionate to their investment.
Of course, other countries on the continent might have considered the combat strength the Sark Kingdom had displayed in its earlier war against the Angelia Kingdom impressive, but to Xu Yi, it was utterly inadequate.
He knew exactly how serious the flaws in the military magic machinery developed by the Sark Kingdom were. The Lampari Kingdom had defeated the Sark Kingdom so easily this time, however, that he had not even had a chance to tell Servini about those flaws and let the Lampari Kingdom's military exploit them.
Thus, Teresa was of no importance whatsoever in Xu Yi's eyes. Before the Lampari Kingdom launched its war against the Sark Kingdom, he had simply had Avita expose her disguise and imprison her.