After Ya Fei left Wutan City and returned to headquarters in the Imperial Capital, her excellent management of the auction house in Wutan City had brought in considerable profits, rivaling even those of some leading major cities.
Thus, as soon as she returned, the Mittel Elder Council proposed promoting her to Supervising Elder.
However, more than half of its members opposed the proposal, and the Clan Chief offered no opinion, so the matter came to nothing.
Those on the Elder Council who supported Ya Fei settled for the next best thing and promoted her to Acting Supervising Elder.
The others could hardly object to that, and so the matter was settled.
As for everything Ya Fei had done in Wutan City, the family had investigated it all thoroughly before her promotion.
The Mittel higher-ups consequently learned that Ya Fei owed her achievements to an Alchemist of unknown rank and a young Blacksmith capable of forging exceptional weapons.
Moreover, that Blacksmith accounted for the greater part of her success.
The Mittel higher-ups also knew about the Iron-Cleaving Treasure Weapons and Magic Core Armaments he forged. Some were interested, while others thought little of them.
As it happened, Lei Le's grandfather was among the higher-ups interested in these Treasure Weapons and Demonic Weapons.
To reproduce the forging techniques, headquarters still had several Demonic Weapon samples transferred from Wutan City sitting in its warehouse.
Yet even after thoroughly studying these weapons and equipment, they struggled to reproduce them completely.
Of the weapons they forged, their Demonic Weapons were only slightly stronger than ordinary Magic Core Weapons, while they could not reproduce the Treasure Weapons at all.
Anyone with a functioning brain could understand the value of these weapons.
Even the lowest-grade Treasure Weapons could greatly improve an army's fighting strength if mass-produced and