Word of the Xinfei Merchant Guild Guard Corps' operation in Laroul Town spread through countless countries and regions across the Sains Continent, carried by mercenaries and merchant caravans.
Most people's first reaction to the news was that the Xinfei Merchant Guild had gone mad!
What sort of place was Laroul Town? It was territory belonging to the Candel Empire!
Gods above! The Candel Empire was one of the continent's two most powerful empires. Strictly speaking, even the Malo Empire fell slightly short of it in overall strength. For that reason, the Candel Empire had always looked down on the other nations of the Sains Continent. It had always been the one stirring up trouble in other countries. Since when had anyone else dared cause trouble on its territory?
What was more, the party causing trouble on the Candel Empire's territory this time was nothing more than a merchant guild!
Even if it was the Xinfei Merchant Guild, which had recently drawn the entire continent's attention and earned the regard of nearly every nation, sending its own Guards Corps into the Candel Empire to launch an attack without official authorization was tantamount to treating the empire with utter contempt!
For the Candel Empire, which had existed for nearly a thousand years and had always ranked among the strongest nations, this was unquestionably a humiliation. How could it possibly tolerate such a thing?
Of course, aside from watching how the Candel Empire would respond, most people were actually more interested in the details of the incident.
According to the rumors, the Xinfei Merchant Guild Guard Corps had launched the operation to wipe out a band of robbers who had previously robbed one of the guild's caravans.
There was nothing objectionable about that in itself. But according to the details revealed in those